"The Glades" Fountain of Youth (TV Episode 2012) Poster

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(2012)

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Our country was discovered by Ponce de Leon
stratus_phere28 March 2017
Seriously? Who does the research on these shows. I enjoy The Glades, but so often they do stupid things like this. Our main character, when he is told that Ponce de Leon was searching for the fountain of youth to increase fertility, then states, "Our country was discovered by a man looking for Viagra." Even my middle school kids know that wasn't who discovered America. I absolutely hate lame, lazy, uneducated writers who think everyone from Columbus to Ponce de Leon are the same person just because they lived a long time ago. Are these writers 10 years old?

Next, we have our main character grab a bag of boiled peanuts and start eating them straight out of the bag. Obviously written by someone who has never been to the south and never eaten boiled peanuts...they are only, ever sold in the shell. You don't grab a few and pop them in your mouth. You shell them...a two handed procedure.

Then we have our main character talking to a very attractive suspect, when he finds out she is the medical director, he says, "So she was the beauty, you were the brains." Oh please! The victim is attractive, so she must be dumb? And the suspect is a medical director, so she couldn't possibly be attractive? How backwards are the writers/director to put that in there? Grow up.

Then our main character walks through a trailer park, sees a man sitting in a lawn chair and calls him a "registered sex offender". Talk about stereotypes, it makes me want to avoid sitting in my lawn chair outside, or some cop may come up with bizarre accusations. Just more evidence this episode was written by a very young, very inexperienced, untalented and uneducated writer who bases all his/her knowledge on Hollywood stereotypes and not much else.
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9/10
Boiled peanuts!
sherrycole-3019224 November 2021
Seriously, I love this show but please, when you are writing shows set in a certain geographic location, please do a bit of research. First, you don't have to pick up boiled peanuts while in Georgia. You cannot swing a dead cat here in Florida without hitting a boiled peanut stand. Second, you don't just pop them out of a bag into your mouth. They are still in the shell! They got one thing right, though. The boiled peanuts are delicious!
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