What History Lies Between Jack and ‘MacGyver’’s New Boss?
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Jack (George Eads) used the name Matty the Hun to describe the clandestine Phoenix Foundation’s honcho, Matilda Webber (Meredith Eaton), when she first appeared on MacGyver in January. But is his new boss (who was once his boss in special ops) really all that bad? “She’s a capable, intelligent and definitely somewhat intimidating government agent,” Eaton says, “but she has a lot of layers and colors you’re going to see.”
Matty may not be the tallest person in the room (Eaton stands 4’3″), but she’ll rise up against some big challenges in her new gig, as is evident in Friday night’s episode. Mac (Lucas Till) and the team are blamed for a terrorist attack, and Matty is caught between a rock and
a hard place when she has to disavow the group’s actions.
“Matty always wants to protect her team,” the actress says, “but sometimes what comes along with that are decisions that are not the easiest to make.” And what is the rocky past between Matty and Jack all about? Eaton promises we’ll find out over time but reveals, “Whatever happened between them was profound enough that he felt he needed to move on and work for someone else.”
Eaton, who has guest starred on Boston Legal and NCIS, says she’s excited to be part of a series with a high testosterone level, so don’t expect Matty to only be barking out orders from headquarters. “You’ll definitely see her in the field and getting her hands dirty,” Eaton says, though she’s not so sure she’ll be jumping from the mega-heights her castmates often do. “They can give me a piggyback off the building,” Eaton jokes.
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I love what they have done with this show. New bosses I can handle as long as the focus remains on Mac and Jack. Their partnership sales it for me.
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It seems to me that the show has finally found some legs. I think it experienced some growing pains in the beginning. But with the addition of Meredith Eaton, it seems to be more stabilized. She brings to bring more of an anchor to the team then Thorton did however, I agree that there needs to be less team oriented missions (jack, the hacker girl , and the roommate) and more of solo macgyver doing his thing.
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I have nothing against the new boss mostly because I quit watching the show some time ago. Too much brodudery and not enough ladies for my taste.
I still hope they'll make a show build around Amy Acker's Sarah Adler and add Thornton to that show to redeem her character.
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Amy Acker is too good for CBS but I agree she needs a show built around her.
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They should've made Amy Acker a MacGyver. lol but I guess now it's too late for them to change anything
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I wonder when/if AA's coming back, tho. If it's season finale I'll watch it for her; if she's not in it, oh well, I'll gladly skip it.
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I like the parts of the show where Mac is in the field. He and Jack make the show for me. So far I don't think either "Boss" has helped the show. I don't care about the past, I care about what Mac's next life hack gadget will be.
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Anything that Ms. Eaton touches is magic and I am in. Loved her as the corner on Battle Creek. Loved her is William Shatner's girlfriend on Boston Legal. She makes a great foil for her costars.
I was a fan of Sandrine Holt on House of Cards, but I was not a fan of her on MacGyver. It was as if she was phoning it in.
Season two I would like to see more of MacGyver adventures. More MacGyver. Less Mac with team. I like the idea of seeing how MacGyver gets out of bad situations but the buddy duo thing needs to be minimized.
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Who cares about all this fake, manufactured interpersonal drama? I really don't care about their history. It is--or it SHOULD BE--totally irrelevant.
Still not sure how I feel about this show. On one hand, I'm enjoying the action (except for the aforementioned interpersonal drama crap) but on the other hand, I'm disappointed that they've turned this show into simply another law-enforcement, shoot- guns-catch-bad-guys series. That is NOT what the original show was about. Yes, bad guys were often caught committing crimes, but MacGyver (RDA version) was NEVER sent to arrest someone or punish or escort criminals.
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I feel that way about most (if not all) action oriented programs. I don't care about their past love lives and relationship problems. I just want to watch the chases and see things being blown up.
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Exactly. A workplace drama should keep focused on the workplace. (I was raised on Emergency and Adam-12... no personal home-life scenes in those.) If something doesn't happen during their shift or their assignment, then we don't need to see or hear about it.
And I still think the new MacGyver should broaden the horizons away from strictly law-enforcement.
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