Numb3rs TV Show - Numb3rs Television Show - Yahoo! TV

I can understand why some people wouldn't like this show. Like a lot of other shows on tv, it has a pretty standard format to it, and unlike a lot of other shows, the action is a little more slowed down.

For instance, Charlie and Amita only just are getting into their relationship in the third season, but there's something to be said for shows that wait.

The appeal of the show is the dialog, it's a little bit more involved than most show's traditional language that never ceases to piss off viewers. I, being an English major, despise poorly written shows.

The math is also very intriguing to me, if they'd told me in school that these kinds of formulas were available, I might have looked a little more closely at math. My college has that program, "We all use math everyday" and my friends have worked with some of the equations found in the show.

Rob Morrow does a good job as the FBI agent, Judd Hirsch is very believable as the widower father, and the other FBI agents all are crucial to the show and play their roles well.

Navi Rawat is underused, in my opinion, but now that she and Charlie have hooked up, maybe she'll get more screen time. Kathy Najimi is in the cast, and doing okay, but I can't look at her and not see the sister from "Hocus Pocus."

David Krumholtz and Peter MacNicol really help to carry the show. While David's character is a bit unbelievable, I have had professors strangely similar to Peter's character.

MacNicol and Krumholtz have worked together a bit before though, "The Lyon's Den" and the "The Addam's Family Values" projects, so they seem to know how to play off each other well.

Anyone who remembers any of Krumholtz's characters in the past should watch the show. He went from a sweet geeky kid or elf, depending on the year, to an extremely likable adult who can carry the show. After seeing him in Numb3rs, it's hard to believe he was ever Joel Glickman, and it's good to see a child star do well for themself.

I hope to see more of all these actors in the future, and I'm very glad this show wasn't on FOX or else they would've only run two eps and just dropped the program "just because."