I give the pilot episode of QUANTICO a Reesha Rating of Five Buckets of Popcorn (out of five)!

I had no idea what "Quantico" was going to be about, so I had no expectations of how good or horrible the show would turn out to be.

The show opens at the scene of an apparent explosion at Penn Station in New York City.

A beautiful woman in seen lying unconscious in the rubble and then the show takes a rewind to nine months earlier. We get a peek into the lives of some of the new cadet class recruits for the FBI.

Two of the recruits meet each other on an airplane and then hook up for some freaky sex in a rental car. Another recruit kisses his lover goodbye in an awkward selfie, and a few others leave their opulent homes behind and head off to FBI boot camp.

The assistant director of the FBI and his former lover have a brief spat on the sidewalk and then head off to continue educating the cadets. One of the training sessions requires the class to dig up dirt on each other and reveal their findings in an intensive and intrusive one-on-one interview with a fellow cadet. Nothing could possibly go wrong, right?

WRONG. One of the cadets goes off the Richter and kills himself before people find out about his rapey past in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, throughout the entire show, one of the recruits, Parrish, is being interrogated by the FBI and is accused of planting the bomb herself. It becomes obvious that she has been framed, yet she gets arrested.

An escape plan has been put in place unbeknownst to Parrish, so she ends up escaping thanks to one of the directors at the FBI.

I loved the action in this show and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I cannot wait until next week's episode of "QUANTICO!"

 

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