A team of eccentric geniuses confronts high-tech threats with earnest, high-octane, and suspenseful action.
A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Paramount+.
Some innuendo or implied sex and mild language, about what a TV-14 should carry.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
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Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.
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