On TV in Hong Kong: ink and intrigue in Blindspot
A naked woman with no memory climbs out an abandoned bag in New York's Times Square with an FBI agent's name tattooed across her back. Mark Peters is hooked
It's not every day a naked woman climbs out of an abandoned duffel bag in New York's Times Square with your name tattooed across her back. Confusing matters even more, our poor Jane Doe has no memory and the ornate messages that cover her are more cryptic than the instruction manual for an Ikea wardrobe.
Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton; 300: Rise of an Empire), a hardened FBI agent, naturally, is the unlucky man whose name adorns the walking, talking treasure map in Blindspot (premiering in Hong Kong on the same day as in the United States, on Tuesday, at 9.50pm, on Warner TV). And he must decipher the codes before a criminal conspiracy engulfs the pair.
With each situation Jane (Jaimie Alexander; Thor - above) is thrust into, a skill is revealed that offers clues to her past. Having quickly established that she could take down Jason Bourne, should the need arise, the pair attempt to work out how they are connected.
Equal parts Memento, 24 and NCIS, Blindspot begins with an interesting premise and shows plenty of popcorn-scoffing promise, but whether the action will be put on pause long enough for us to explore the suggested inner turmoil of the central characters, it's still too early to tell. While the plot will no doubt take a whole season, or five, to reveal itself, hopefully, by its conclusion, Blindspot won't have drifted into the same dreary romantic territory that Bones did.
Embarking on a very different, but equally absurd hunt this week - across "the most dangerous island in the world" - is an elite team of intrepid explorers searching for a legendary bounty known as the Treasure of the Trinity. This lost stash of Incan gold is said to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and, following a trail of new evidence, these modern-day tomb raiders head to a plot of land off the coast of Brazil.
Teeming with deadly vipers, Ilha da Queimada Grande is known to the locals as Snake Island. Can the adventurers find the treasure before the pirates, snakes or foul weather find them first?