Upcoming in "The Hunt With John Walsh" Season 1 2014

I initially missed it because work ran later than I expected, but it's rerun at 11:30 here, so I'll catch it then

Okay my father and I really liked how the episode was done. Nothing was over dramatized and surprisingly, despite it being an hour long case feature, not much of it (if anything) seemed like unneeded filler. However, this episode leading to Miller's capture would make it perfect.

I feel like I'm really going to enjoy The Hunt.

Gonna do a mini-review I'll let Pakman do a segment-segment breakdown if he wishes.

The opening segment where John Walsh talks about how he learned to do one thing really well catch bastards and bring them to justice was awesome! So as far that's concerned, it started awesomely!

However, the actual show started off kinda slow. I see a re-enactment of blood dripping and John Walsh looking like a sideline observer/commentator rather than a host. But after a while, I got it, and it got more interesting along the way. In my opinion, there was probably too much build-up to the murders of Sandy and her daughters. It was really the news clips and after effects when I was more drawn in, it was more interesting. That was the part that was more like AMW as that's when you felt you were looking for Shane Miller as well. To be honest, I was getting a bit bored leading up the murder itself.

I see what they're trying to do, and as John Walsh stated in earlier articles, The Hunt will likely evolve as they go along. My complaint about the 1-2 fugitive format is not about style choice- it's about capture probability. Air a few more cases, there's more chances at a capture from an episode. And also justice for as many people possible who need a court of last resort. John Walsh mentioned the insane amount of cases they had to turn down on AMW. If they were turning down hundreds of cases a week on AMW, they're turning down THOUSANDS of cases for The Hunt. So while a lot was interesting, I felt like they could have snuck in commercial break cases or 15 seconds of shame cases. I understand what they're trying to do- tell a story to draw the viewers in and make you feel for the victims. However, the point is also to catch the fugitive to provide justice in the first place. Although I was pleasantly surprised to see that I felt they did a decent job spending time on clues on Shane Miller- but they also didn't mention how he could possibly be in Oregon or Mexico or even India like earlier articles and The Hunt site's suggests.

I wouldn't call it a mixed review as opposed to hopeful and cautiously optimistic. I see what they're TRYING to do. I watched Parts Unknown and I like the ZPZ documentary format so the Production does stylistically look much better.

So anyway, I felt it started off slowly, but was drawn in towards in the end, and this has me cautiously optimistic the show will get better!

I just wanted to add that someone will probably call 1-800 THE-HUNT and get an operating machine for the business that uses that phone number.

Well, the first 10 minutes of The Hunt aren't too shabby so far. I do agree that it's going a little slowly, but I'll tell you what I really like; heading into commercial, they put up Shane Miller's profile card along with vital details about him. I like that they're showing that now instead of waiting until the very end of the show.

So far, it's pretty decent, and I think it's going to be a nice addition to CNN's lineup!

Awesome! So as long as the ratings keep up and we get a few direct captures, we're pretty much guaranteed a second season.