We have watched this show since day one. Really liked it in the beginning, but have to admit the lead character - Jim - has started to turn into even more of an obnoxious jerk; smarmy, snarky comments, smacking his lips when he eats because he thinks he is cool, throw off lines, arrogant…
yeah, despite the cliff hanger ending with Jim shot and lying on the floor, the idea of him actually dying in a puddle of blood doesn’t really upset me.
So, yes we would have kept watching - but for shows that have to be canceled, this news brought no tears in our household.
Like the OP, I really liked the show in the beginning, but Jim’s continued jerkiness turned me off. That said, I’ll miss his relationship with Carlos, best thing about the show as far as I’m concerned.
I saw a few random episodes and it just never grabbed me. Then again, most cop shows have a sameness about them and they’re almost interchangeable. I won’t miss it, any more than I’ve missed watching any of the incarnations of L&O.
Altho I’ll still watch NCIS for the eye candy that is Mark Harmon.
I wasn’t all that invested in the show anymore – I think I was continuing to watch mostly out of a sense of inertia – but I am a little peeved that we aren’t going to be getting any resolution of the cliffhanger. That would’ve been nice.
I only watched the first few episodes and dropped it because I thought the main character was a complete asshole. Did he actually get worse over the course of the series? :eek:
I liked Carlos and Daniel, and even the Captain. Callie is smoking hot and I can watch her for hours on mute.
The writing failed to pass the smell test on murder investigations though. Not only was Jim an ass, but he was an incompetent ass who kept getting lucky. Poor writing, and Passamore took Jim in the wrong direction over the series (though that may have been the producers instead of the actor).
I was in love with the show at first, but this last year just sucked. The lead character doubled down on his already borderline obnoxious character and became a straight up asshole. Then every episode was the same: Come up with a ridiculous murder scene and have a tale that leads everywhere and spins back to the person you thought of in the beginning. Oh, and jerk around and arrest half of the people in South Florida with nary a hint of allegations of misconduct or attorneys being called.
The interesting side story of a guy dating a single mom with a confused kid turned into witness protection and release from prison and moving away and moving back and engagement and his parents moving in…blah.
I have the last 6 episodes recorded, but haven’t wanted to watch. I think the writers had a good idea, but just didn’t know where to take it.
I really liked the show when it started. I thought it was an interesting premise and at first, Jim’s schtick drew me in. But now, I agree with the general sentiment of the thread; The Glades was a below-average cop show with a lead who was an obnoxious ass (and that lip-smacking!) and a female lead who was smoking-hot. One thing that really bothered me as I watched more of the show was the random Kia ads in the middle - I’m not talking about commercials, but actual dialogue talking about how convenient the fold-down third-row seating was and other things like that. I didn’t notice in the first season, but maybe it just got more and more blatant as the show went on.
This was always one of those marginal shows that you watch in the background while doing three other things. If you miss half of the episode, eh, no great loss.
But the whole thing with the witness protection aspect was grating having watched a couple seasons of a USA show called In Plan Sight. If that show is vaguely accurate in terms of how careful the US Marshalls are about protecting the identities and locations of witnesses, that whole plot arc seems bogus. They did seem to do their homework on the broad strokes though, so I have to give them credit for that.
