hyped garbage

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Seven season show about an FBI unit that finds missing people. As they must be missing for at least 24 hours to be missing and the authorities can go out and search for them. As the authorities have a 72-hour window to find them.Some people come out alive in this. And finally reunite with their families. And some do not come out alive. As it gives it to the authenticity of the show. That all of the episodes, most do not come out with happy endings.The great Anthony LaPagila heads an ensemble cast. As the troubled head of the NY Field office. With fellow Australian Poppy Montgomery as the young Samantha Spade, who flirts with LaPagila's Jack Malone and Eric Close's Martin Fitzgerald.Rounding out the team of Jean Marie Baptise an UK actress doing an American actress as mother hen, Vivian Johnson who had health problems early on. Enrique Muricano as Dannhy Taylor who is best friends with Martin.Rose Sanchez as Elena Delgado as the new rookie agent. Really the team did not need her. As she kind of brought a damper to the already close knit team no offense to Sanchez fans.It shows also the personal lives of the team members. And how their experience got them that far.Really a great ensemble show! Still missed by many!

Roseylyn Sanchez has been an awesome addition to without a trace. She does an excellent job portraying an intelligent strong Latina woman. The cast was predominantly male and another female in the cast brings more story opportunities. The show has gotten a little soapy this year with all the love interests but I still love this show and all the actors involved. The stories are gripping and sometimes heartbreaking. I dvr this show every week so I won't miss an episode. The characters are flawed which makes them all the more human. I wouldn't change a thing hopefully the writing remains consistent and the show will continue several more seasons.

OK I am all for people having their own opinion and everything but CSI isn't even how the whole investigation process goes. First of all the crime scene guys do not talk to suspects or witnesses. All that the csi or csu (crime scene unit) does is go to the crime scene and collect as much evidence as possible like blood samples, hair and carpet fibers. Then the medical examiner takes samples from the body and runs toxic screens and determines cause of death, that has nothing to do with the csi unit. After all this work is done, and that usually takes a great deal of time due to the fact that DNA tests take anywhere from 2 to 4 months to complete and even finger print analysis take a long time complete as well, all the results are given to the detectives working the case. Then they put all the facts together and make the arrest. In Without a Trace the investigating FBI team finds evidence and informs the csi unit to come and gather it. Then the team puts the facts together and talks to witnesses and suspects and makes the arrest. In CSI they practically do everything in the investigation which is so unrealistic that its not worth watching. Without a Trace in the other hand runs more like a real investigation with many technicians to help them run the case but the FBI unit is always the ones that interrogate and make the arrests. So in short Without a Trace is more like a real investigation and CSI isn't. Thats the entire reason that I prefer Without a Trace over CSI any day. Besides I'm really not into shows that have like 4 spin offs that all do the same thing.

It's a good show, fairly well-written, with good plot lines, but the characters are a little under-developed, which is sometimes frustrating. But overall, I would recommend it easily. The "one case per episode" thing can result in rushed episodes sometimes, but most of the time, they keep a realistic time line. Of course, with this kind of show, you can rarely really "connect" with the missing persons stories, because it's so short. You can get bored of the style after a few seasons, but if you like shows like Bones or Criminal Minds, this show is a good choice, even if it's missing the humor-wittiness of Bones and the intelligence of Criminal Minds.