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Narrative
A series adaptation of James Patterson’s novels about the complicated and brilliant detective Alex Cross. In the second part, Cross tells Sampson that he smells like “moth and old spices.” In real life, Isaiah Mustafa is portrayed in the glossy Old Spice commercials as “a man whose man you could smell.” I’ve read a few of Alex Cross’ books and found them too creepy for my taste, although I thought they were well-written with good stories and characters. I somehow found the series more palatable, with equally good writing and characters. But the picture is so dark. I have to turn off all the lights in my room and put the TV on bright mode (I have an LG OLED). It’s as if the people in charge of picture quality had lunch. The cinematography is great in one respect, but the brightness of the picture is so far from any other series that it turns me off. If this could be fixed, that would be great.