TRACKER. CBS, “Klamath Falls.” CBS, 10 February 2024 (Season 1, Episode 1). Justin Hartley, Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany, Eric Graise, Fiona Rene. Based on the novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver. Director: Ken Olin.

Starring in this rather formulaic adventure series, now close to having finished three seasons, is Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, a fellow who makes a living tracking down people and things for all kinds of reasons, with his own personal one being that he gets paid quite a bit of money for doing so.

I say “formulaic” because that’s all that’s to be seen in this, the first episode.

His task in this one, which I have now seen twice, is finding a young boy who’s assumed to having been kidnapped by his biological father, long estranged from his mother.  There’s more to the story than that, but the first time watching, the story line seemed all too thin for me, lost among all of the details of Shaw’s family, friends and previous life.

How these play out in the rest of the series I cannot tell you, but perhaps some of you who have been watching from the beginning can leave comments to tell us more.

If it were up to me to offer an opinion, I will say that I am surprised to see that it has survived three seasons, and leave it at that. No, not so. I will also tell you that I am considering watching another episode, and hope and trust that that particular good news will travel fast.