There are some very funny parts and the clothes/hair are horribly bad but it doesn't come across as meaning to be all comedy/parody, it's as if it hasn't quite decided what it is yet. The big problem may be the new Sam who is very much the anti-Sam, the Miss Marple to his Poirot but hard to sympathsise with so far. She's so confident she knows what's going on, there's not the sense of pure bewilderment Sam had. She's also supposed to be a psychological profiler, which in TV seems to involve out gene-ing Gene in the not-bothering-to-research department but backing up her hunches with a bunch of therapy-speak. Plus there's a class thing, she's from a much more privileged background than Hunt's lot which puts them in the underdog position so they have that as well as the fact we already know them to make them rootable for. It could all change, there are some cracks appearing in her veneer and if they do turn it around that would be impressive.

Baby Rupes was very cute :-)