Just popping to mention that Linda, as played by Amy Carlson, reduces me to a drooling puddle of goo. She is that incredible combination of experience, hotness, and competence that fantasy nurses should have. IOW allow me to state, for the record - rahr.
But I like the show, as I used to like Hill Street Blues. For whatever reason I can just accept the plot contrivances and enjoy the show on its own terms. Except for Sami Gayle, who looks sickly and androgynous to me. Abigail Baker is almost as hot as Linda. Bridgit Monihan is too skinny.
But it is a cop melodrama with a decent, functional family at its core. And well-written and -acted.
Abigail Baker is nowhere NEAR as hot as Linda. Amy Carlson is an elf-maid; Abigail Hawk is merely pretty.
And if I didn’t make it clear in the OP, I too like the show; I especially like the theme music, which is made of awesome. My biggest complaint is when they shoehorn Erin or Jamie into Danny’s case-of-the-week. Once or twice a season is okay, but in aggregate it’s wearying.
Where’s the love for Officer Eddie Janko played by Vanessa Ray? Definitely hot.
As far as their on screen personalities go, Linda Reagan is the whole package. To me she kind of has that tough blonde thing going on. Kind of like Claire from Modern Family but not as bitchy (which I like too for some reason).
We’re still watching our way through the past seasons and just started S3.
Uh… the first episode was by far the weakest so far and the second wasn’t much better. Is this a permanent turn or just a stumble?
I guess I’ll spoiler this comment about S3:E1 -
I mean, really - so Jackie is cuffed to a bomb, apparently out of sight of Michael Madsen’s (excellent as usual, if a bit phoned-in) bad guy. Danny unlocks the bomb. He takes it. He locks it to his own wrist and goes off to meet the bad guy. What in the holy effin’ name of 9/11 prevented him from PRETENDING to lock it on, then flinging the knapsack right over the adjacent seawall, where the water probably would have prevented detonation and in any case would have done little or no harm? The writing was so stupid and convoluted in this ep… and E2 wasn’t much better.
Did something happen to the writing/showrunner team after season 2?
I was in a hotel room this weekend and saw this for the first time. It was the “bicycle accident” episode mentioned upthread. I couldn’t take the father (?) cop seriously when each time someone would speak to him about his son, he’d flip out about it.
“Sir, your son has a contusion in his brain…”
“What does that MEAN?! Why won’t you speak English?!”
“Your son’s brain is bruised and…”
“How can I understand that?! I need English words, not your science mumbo-jumbo!”
“Blood is pooling in…”
“Dear God, must I travel to England and speak to the Queen herself to get someone who can tell me in English what’s going on!?”
I like BB myself but there’s one thing that happens virtually every episode that makes me want to bitch slap…I don’t know…somebody! One of the intelligent and experienced cops calls out to a suspect when still ten to twenty yards from them causing them to run. Oh and then catches them. I’m sure it happens all the time in reallife. Middle aged man in a suit and tasseled loafers chases down a healthy man in early twenties in sweat pants and Nikes who also had a twenty yard head start and knows the neighborhood.
Drives me nuts.
