Almost is NEVER Enough

Rasanya benar ungkapan yang tertulis diatas,

Bahwa jadi nomor-2 itu tidak akan pernah diingat, lebih lagi diapresiasi. Tidak. Karena sampai kapan pun nomor 2 bukanlah nomor 1.

Penilaian sebatas dari hasil ini seringkali membuat geram. Seolah menghakimi bahwa si nomor 2 tidak lebih berusaha dari si nomor 1. Padahal kenyataannya tidak melulu seperti itu.

Sepintas hati berbisik,
"Tunjukkan saja hasil akhir yang baik, tak peduli itu hasil usahamu atau 'bantuan' orang lain. Sama saja. Yang dilihat hanya hasil, bukan proses."

Seseorang bisa saja mengaku melakukan penilaian berdasarkan proses yang telah dijalani, lau membandingkan si 'nomor 1' dengan si 'nomor 2, 3, 4, dst". Tapi, Hei! Kalian tahu apa tentang usaha yang sudah dilakukan orang lain? Tahu apa tentang pengorbanannya?

Memberi motivasi? Rasanya pernah saya menyaksikan pemberian motivasi yang lebih elegan dari sekedar membandingkan seseorang dengan orang lain.
Haruskah ada unsur penghakiman dalam setiap pemberian motivasi? Jika begitu saya lebih baik tidak mendengar motivasi dari orang lain.

Criminal Minds Beyond Borders: What's the difference?

For anyone familiar with police procedural drama, Criminal Minds is not a new thing. The long running series about FBI’s BAU team reached its 11the season this year and for me, personally, making someone to keep watching your series for 11 years is a huge thing. Well done team!!

This past 11 years, other than the original series, the team also produced not only one but two spin-offs. The first one, titled Criminal Minds Suspect Behavior debuted on 2011 and cancelled after 13 episodes because of its low ratings.  After 5 years, they finally release the second spin-off titled Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. Beyond Borders was debuted March 16, 2016 and successfully caught my attention since then.

The new spin-off, starring familiar face Garry Sinise, as Jack Garrett, the head of FBI’s International Response Team unit.  The team travels a lot to help solves cases involving American citizens in foreign country. Other than Garry Sinise, the team also consist of a tech analyst, Russ Montgomery (Tyler James Williams), a former army and special ops agent, Matthew Simmons (Daniel Henney), a linguistic specialist, Clara Seger (Anna de la Garza), and last but not least a medical examiner, Mae Jarvis (Annie Funke).

Beyond Borders brings the different sides of the original series but at the same time keeping the same spirit, the same professionalism. It brings us to different country every week, so we’ll meet different unsub (unknown subject) with different cultural background, making it even more interesting. As they travel a lot of different country, they have a bigger, way bigger jet than the BAU team they could bring two cars and a motorcycle in it. My mouth wide open the first time I saw it. They also collect money from the country they travel and put it on the board inside their jet, cool!!

After several episodes I noticed another thing that makes Beyond Borders different from another procedural drama, even from its original series. While another police procedural series capture the dark side of the character’s personal life, the characters in this series seem to have a better one. Jack Garrett has a wonderful marriage with 6 kids, while Simmons has a beautiful wife and 4 cute little kids. The other, Mae and Monty were still single. The one with a bit darker personal life is Clara. She married once but lost his husband, I don’t know the story yet, but I guess it was because of her job. It traumatized her. Clara left the job once to travel the world before re-unite with the IRT unit in episode 1.

The show is now reaching its 8th episode and on their way to the 9th. And then there’s a question, will it end up like Suspect Behavior? It was started with a solid rating. The acting itself was a bit average for me, to be honest, and they obviously can do more with the storyline. But I’m curious about the character development  because we haven’t seen much of it in the previous 8 episodes. So yeah, I think the show deserve more chance.