History Series / Limitless

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-->--'''Agent Rebecca Harris, '''"'''Pilot'''"

* {{Expy}}: In episode 13, a hot-shot profiler from the BAU who's also an author shows up--much like the main character of [[CriminalMinds another CBS show]]. Naz is rather dismissive of him, which veers into ActorAllusion territory as Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was on that show as an ex-wife of the character in question.

** This sli-up could be due to the series originally being set in 2012, the year after the original filk was set in, only to later have its premise updated to the present-day.

* ThatManIsDead: Eddie Morra tells Brian that the pre-NZT Eddie does not exist anymore and only the new Edie matters. Morra is quite perplexed by Brian clinging to his old life rather than fully embracing the "new and improved" Brian.

** Averted hard once again in "Sands, Agent of Morra". Where despite Brian secretly helping Sands as the FBI are on the same case, Sands and Brian beat the FBI to the location only by mere minutes.

** In the episode "Headquarters!", Brian triggers synesthesia in order to visually track a scent. He tells Rebecca, "it's completely useless as an investigative technique, but it's interesting." He soon proves himself wrong and subverts the trope when the trail actually takes him somewhere useful.

** When he tries to get into a computer hacking, Brian's narration notes how movies and TV shows do hacking as a montage because "in real life, hacking is ''boring.''

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Averted and played straight in the pilot. He in fact did think his plan through to the tiniest detail of to stop a train just in front of him. However after he sees the train coming at him his confidence in this plan working quickly decrease.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When his father ends up in the hospital in the series premiere, Brian offer to do everything he can to help. His father asks him "How would you help?". This makes Brian face the truth and realize he is barely able to take care of himself and lacks any ability to help his family in the crisis.

* NoFourthWall: Brain regularly speaks to the audience.

** Averted hard once again in "Sands, Agent of Morra". Where despite Brian secretly helping Sands as the FBI are on the same case, Sands and Brain beat the FBI to the location only by mere minutes.

** In the second episode at the end when Brain finds out the nurse working for her father is also the one working for Morra. Her statement about how his father is getting better is clearly meant to be a threat to Brian and to tell him to keep his mouth shut.

Was cancelled after it's first and only season.

''Limitless'' is a 2015 television series airing on Creator/{{CBS}}, and a SequelSeries to the [[Film/{{Limitless}} 2011 film of the same name]].

The series also stars Hill Harper as Agent Spelman Boyle and Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio as FBI special agent Nasreen "Naz" Pouran. It is also produced by Bradley Cooper, who will be reprising his role from the film beyond his initial appearance in the pilot.

The character sheet for both the movie and the show is [[Characters/{{Limitless}} here]], and NeedsWikiMagicLove.

->Every time he takes it he basically becomes the smartest person in the world. That's a resource. Let's make it ''our'' resource.
-->--'''Agent Rebecca Harris, "Pilot"'''

** A trained FBI agent will ShootTheHostageTaker who has a gun pointed at a hostage's head. If a situation has deteriorated to that point, the agent's priority is to save the hostage's life rather than trying to talk the hostage taker down. In Brian's defense, he insists that [[spoiler:Casey]]'s last act was to lower his gun, proving that he would have done so eventually had he been given more time. It becomes more muddled when it becomes evident that while on NZT [[spoiler:Casey]] saw the bullet coming and could have avoided being killed. Meaning that it was more likely that with his career gone down in flames, and long term prison the result of his actions. It was more likely that [[spoiler:Casey]] decided to [[SuicideByCop take the only way out left to him.]]

* EarnYourhappyEnding: In the season one finale Brian keeps taking NZT even after he starts experiencing debilitating side effects becausw it is the only way to stop the bad guys and [[spoiler: save Piper]]. He puts himself through hell but in the end [[spoiler: Sands' organization is taken down, Piper is safe and Brian gets a booster shot that makes him permanently immune to NZT side effects]].

* CallBack: The "I did it for the LULZ" cartoon Brian drew of himself in "Badge! Gun!" shows up again in "When Pirates Pirate Pirates", this time in animated form. He also brings it up several times as a possible motivation for the hacker in "Arm-Ageddon".

The series also stars Hill Harper as Agent Spelman Boyle and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as FBI special agent Nasreen "Naz" Pouran. It is also produced by Bradley Cooper, who will be reprising his role from the film beyond his initial appearance in the pilot.