Carmen Sandiego (2019)

While it seemed like a good thing to revive the series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, this series has just taken the character's name, and nothing else.  The question "Where is the World is" is absent, and with good reason.  That question is not asked, nor is the viewer asked to think about the answer or do any sleuthing themselves.

The original concept was a game that helped teach geography and about other countries.  While this concept carried over to the game show "Where in the World  is Carmen Sandiego"  the following cartoon show "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?" dispensed with the focus on teaching geography and limited it's lessons to short blurbs about the country they were going to to track Carmen Sandeigo down in.

In this show, Carmen has been revived as a red ninja, using a sleeve mounted firing grappling hook, a copy of the same device used in the Batman movie and animated series, and a collapsible hang glider.  Every episode contains fisticuffs, a concept that has had no connection with Carmen Sandiego since her inception in nearly 35 years ago.

Also, rather than have Carmen Sandiego be the villain and leader of V.I.L.E., this show has her has a leaving the organization while she is quite young, and considered a traitor by the other members of V.I.L.E..  Also, none of the members of her gang, that were featured in the games and the game show, make appearances in this program.

One interesting addition is her assistants Zack and Ivy, who are from Boston, while their Boston accents are reasonably faithful, Zack over does it with the word "wicked" in every episode.

While there was a game released on facebook back in 2011, but was taken down in 2012.  A rival of the original game or even the game show is badly needed, as American's abysmal lack of knowledge of geography is the ridicule of the world.