I did, and liked it. I think they should have spun out the secret about the new cop a bit longer, but otherwise I thought it was a good pilot.
One thing is killing me, though—why is it called Kville?
K-Ville is short for “Katrinaville”, which has become a new nickname for New Orleans.
I watched the show, sort of (I was in the same room where it was on but not paying close attention). I thought it wasn’t that bad. Didn’t seem to be all that bad, although some of the Political Background and Exposition Dialogue was a bit clumsily delivered.
We watched it, figuring if nothing else we’d enjoy spotting the locales. And that one car chase? Was hilarious – they started off in the quarter, magically transported themselves across the river to the Algiers end of the bridge, and then transported themselves back to the Eastbank and wound up in the CBD.
Other than that one glaring error, we enjoyed the rest of it – not that we didn’t enjoy it, it just seriously detracted from the intended mood. I don’t think we were supposed to be laughing at the car chase.
I watched it and hated it.
The acting was terrible, the story was predictable, and it will undoubltedly live a long and happy life on fox.
I thought the first half was OK, but the second half sucked. The way the case was solved was so inane with absolutely no buildup to it, and no logic anyway. And of course just about every cliche in the book (is that a cliche?) was used. My teenagers agreed.
This is sarcastic, correct? The Simpsons, Married with Children and what? Maybe X-Files, who had at least one season on life-support? Nothing on Fox lives a long and happy life.
Is it actually a nickname for New Orleans now? I hadn’t heard it anywhere but in the show’s promotional material. I had assumed they made it up for the show.
Anyway, regarding the show, I thought it was entertaining, but not that great quality wise. I wouldn’t have watched it if it wasn’t after Prison Break. Purely on merit, I would guess that it would get canceled fairly quickly, but it might last a while if people watch out of guilt, since a lot of the show seems to be about New Orleans rebuilding itself, and since the show is filmed on location and is putting money back into the city. (I apologize for the previous run-on sentence, but it is late, and I need to get to bed).
Eh, I was with it until the last 15…Then it just got retarded.
I was looking forward to it… that’ll teach me. I couldn’t even finish the episode.
The acting was almost painful.
It was hard to follow the plot, with the scenes jumping around all over the place.
The jerky camera shots during the car chase where migraine inducing.
Haven’t had a chance to see this, but the black guy was terrific on Shield. Not good here?
I’m a big fan of his small roles both comedic and dramatic… he’s not good enough to build a show around though.
I liked it, I’m just disappointed that (minor spoiler for the pilot)the singer died, instead of becoming a regular.Then again, I’m a BIG Miami Vice fan, & this reminds me of that in significant ways.
Early on some of the cops made a joke about not sitting in the seat of a car because the CSI team was coming in with a body heat detector machine that would tell them stuff about the person last sitting there, and then laughed about it. I thought “oh, cool, they make fun of CSI, maybe they’re going to try a gritty, realistic approach”, but no.
Every other scene ended in random fully automatic gunfire from someone. I mean - you pick post-Katrina New Orleans as an interesting setting in your story, and then instead of exploring that, you just have Miami Vice shootouts with Mac-10s every other scene? Had me rolling my eyes halfway through.
It was too artificially action-oriented and was targetted at an audience that needs random, exaggerated action regularly. Cliched and far fetched, which is a shame given that there are a lot of stories you could come up with in that setting that aren’t so cartoonish.
Yeah, basically it’s a good thing I don’t like it.
It had a vibe of trying too hard to do too much too soon. I’ll give it another try or two.
As somebody who’s spent the last two years here, two things struck me.
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The Cypress speech from the beginning. The sad part is that we have people who actually believe that stuff. This latent New-Orleans nationalism wasn’t as bad as it was 18 months ago, when people would go into restaurants that weren’t serving appropriate New Orleans food and bitch them out about it, but I have actually in real life encountered the cypress speech. Those things are holy.
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Of course, the final plot was stupid. If you really wanted to kill the 9th ward so badly, then just keep on doing what you’re doing! Why even bother with the hired killers; buying the houses up wouldn’t even be against the law! But of course, the hysterical female villain isn’t having that.
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Notice how all the relevant detective work was done by Boulet or whatever his name was in about 30 seconds. He just went on the computer and then asked someone. The rest of the episode was almost totally unhelpful.
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I so, so, so wanted to see the out-of-town cop beat up boulet. Beat the shit out of him after he decided to dump the guy over his boat. What is this, 24?
I watched in last night (from TIVO). Didn’t like it. Too many things just seemed to happen “by magic”:
How’d he find out all of those houses were being bought up so fast?
How’d he find his partner’s arrest records so fast? He only had to look through a few hundred boxes? Why did he even think of doing that?
For me, I’ll pass. There’ll be other better shows to watch this season than this.
J.
Ok, so obviously I was the only one who liked it. 
I’ll try to not get too fond of it, as based on this thread it won’t be around for long.
Nah, if people on the Dope don’t like it it’ll probably last at least 5 years. It’s when we love a show that it’s pretty much guaranteed to be cancelled.
I got bored halfway through the episode and I really didn’t like the Boulet character. Way too much self-righteous anger for my taste.
When did it become the norm to use ShakeyCam for any scene that might involve the slightest hint of action? That car chase was on the point of completely unwatchable.
I’ll give the second episode a try, but I’m thinking this is the first new show to be taken off the TiVo this year.