Story here.
Seemed like an interesting premise; I liked the original version. I never watched this one, mostly because I’m not a Maria Bello fan.
But, still…it sucks that new shows are dropping left and right.
New shows drop left and right every season. There are always winners and losers.
That said, this was the only one of two ‘police procedurals’ that I watch.
That sucks. I think it was one of the better new shows of the season and it was just starting to hit it’s stride.
Darn. Now she’ll never earn those guys’ respect!
This is why Prime Suspect failed. You can’t do a “female police officers have it really REALLY hard” in the same TV landscape that features The Closer, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order SVU. All of those shows are at least five years old and SVU has featured the tough-as-nails Olivia Benson for a decade.
Once they realized this and made it more a standard procedural, it was too late.
They really goofed by making a pilot that didn’t reflect what the show was going to be. I only kept watching because Sepinwall said the sexism angle would be toned down.
I’m sorry it’s going, but not nearly as sorry as I was about Terriers.
Also, consider The Mentalist and Castle: it’s fine for a man to be the brilliant but eccentric civilian consultant who can solve baffling crimes, but only if he’s bodyguarded by a strong woman who carries a badge and a gun!
Goddamn it. This is one of the few programs on any channel that is worth watching. The networks are just a smarmy morass of reality shows and unfunny sitcoms. Most of what I watch these days is on PBS, since there is almost no quality out there. The networks are run by morons who must have an instant hit or they bring out the axes. :mad:
It was that fucking hat.
I tried to watch it but didn’t like the filiming/editing style. Visually it was so choppy, it gave me a headache. Also, I think Bello is a good actor, but she was trying way too hard and it showed. Like she had to have some special ‘business’ in every scene - couldn’t just say the lines.
Seeing how they played up the Irish chauvinism of Timoney’s precinct, they might have had an angle if they set the show in Boston - a place where there is a lot more entrenchment (ethnic and gender) than in New York.
Of course, New York shows get greenlit in much greater numbers than shows about other cities. TV executives’ bosses Back East are never based in Boston. Boston accents don’t say no-bullshit authenticity like NY accents. And they couldn’t have called it Prime Suspect, because shows about Boston have to have titles starting with Boston.
Totally unrelated, but Maria Bello looks just like the star of In Plain Sight, Mary McCormack.
Bummer. Maria’s a friend so I was pulling for it, but while I enjoyed the show, I can understand how it wasn’t a ratings winner.
Maria Bello is on my list of truly stunning women. I love her smile.
But I really had no interest in this vehicle for her.
I have all the shows on my DVR, but watched only the first two or three.
I donno - it just seemed like it was trying too hard to show a woman with balls.
Yeah, I know there is still sexism in jobs, especially in the police force, but still - it detracted from the stories and I didn’t think it worked well as portrayed.
I guess I can delete the shows I haven’t seen yet. No use getting invested in a canceled show.
Last night’s episode was the best one yet and showed the real potential of this series. Well plotted, acted, directed and shot. The cast really clicked. A damn shame.
Damn
Sounds like typical TV exec decision-making. Schedule it opposite a fairly popular show (The Mentalist), when it gets low ratings start moving it around all over the schedule so people have no idea when it’s on, and then when it still gets low ratings cancel it. If they really want a show to succeed I don’t understand why they don’t schedule it in a slot against weaker competition and leave it there.
I agree that the first couple of episodes kind of missed the mark with the “competent woman trying to prove herself in a male dominated homicide squad” theme, but it had some potential and I thought it was really starting to click as a good ensemble drama. Oh well.
Except for the plot, I agree. I’m still scratching my head about the drug deal, and it made absolutely no sense for the deputy to try to kill Jane and the little girl in the hospital. Maybe he was supposed to be an idiot?
It honestly got to a point where the show wasn’t good enough to distract me from That Fucking Hat.