So that’s where I’ve seen her! I hope she has better luck with her pony tail than she had with the braid.
Thanks for explaining the part I missed. Wow. Clever writers. I like how they did that.
I liked it too, but I’m not really sure how I feel about the characters yet. I’m still trying to find the hook that’s going to keep the female detective on the case and not flying off to California. If she’s going to stay simply because she started the case well, I’m not a police detective so I’m not sure how realistic that is. I thought they’d reveal that she had a daughter that was killed in the same fashion, or some other formulaic thing that you see in shows/movies of this type. Guess that’s not a bad thing.
Also, as a parent of two young daughters, the first two episodes were heart wrenching to watch.
I liked it. Seems like they did an excellent job of setting things up-- defining who the characters are, what their issues are, and how this might possibly play out as it goes forward. Isn’t the main character one of the Juniper Creek twins that married Joey in Big Love? And of course we all recognize Ensign Ro.
No way, at this point he’s coming across to me as a top suspect (with his whole “It’ll be even better for you if the girl is dead!” thing), however I hope that they don’t make it that obvious. Or maybe I am just too familiar with all the usual Law & Order tropes - it’s never the first suspect or the most obvious one right off the bat (angry ex-boyfriend, political candidate), it’s always someone peripheral but who comes into play later on.
Actually, the first thing I thought was that it was dad’s racist co-worker.
Yep, she’s the one who died when her braid got stuck in the door of the pickup.
Who’s Ensign Ro?
Did you guys recognize Brent Sexton from Deadwood. He played Harry Manning, the guy who wanted to start a volunteer fire department.
Ensign Ro is the mom - she was on Star Trek a hundred years ago.
My first thought was that is was the current mayor trying to undermine the new candidate’s campaign.
Funny, when I saw Callum Keith Rennie’s (the fiancee’s) name in the credits, my first thought was “I bet he’s the killer.” He’s played a bad guy in about everything I’ve seen him in. He seems like a nice guy in this, but it will probably turn out he’s abusing the son, or something.
Are they going to be introducing new characters? Or is this it for the suspects?
The show is walking well traveled ground, but it’s doing it well enough for me to continue watching.
I love how the show treated the discovery of the body. That scene is very special to a crime show, and has been done a million times before. There is just no way a murder mystery can skip over the discovery of the murder.
What was different here was that the first episode ended with the discovery of the body, where as with all other shows the body is discovered at the beginning. They even faked us out a couple of times making us think the body would be discovered at the start of the show.
They took their time to set up that scene and it really delivered. From the shot of the trunk opening up to the father breaking down in primal screams. It was the same scene from a million other cop shows, but with far superior acting, set up, and directing. I hope they can manage to do the same thing with other glossed over scenes from cop shows.
I also like what the show is doing with Linden’s sidekick. At first it looked like they were working the corrupt and incompetent cop angle, but then they switched gears once he found the cage. The guy just doesn’t have the social grace that Linden does, possibly because he grew up around gangsters and drug dealers. But that doesn’t mean he’s a bad cop, he just has a different skill set, which as we saw can be very effective.
Someone posted summaries of the first six episodes at TWOP. If they’re accurate (I’ll box this), new suspects will be introduced..
I’m trying to figure out how the killer could be unconnected to the campaign. Sure, the car was reported stolen, but we have to assume it was a false report. Otherwise all this time with the campaign is wasted.
This is my take on it as well. Pass, but I’ll read the spoilers in six months or whenever.
She got promoted to Admiral (Cain) for Battlestar Galactica.
There are enough motherfucking police procedural shows. I’m sick to death of them. When will they ever think of anything original?
I tried watching it last night. Got through about a half hour of it. The acting is really bad, especially that actress playing the lead. Also that politician guy.
To me it just came off like another Law and Order type cliched procedural. I could also do without the relationship crap.
It made me realize how much I miss FX’s innovative PI show Terriers.
Saw this show pop up and knew nothing about it, googled and found it has connections to Cold Case, one of my favorite shows. Watched the first episodes and it’s got my interest but I’m not yet in love. I’ll see how it goes.
I don’t care for the main character, she’s no Lilly Rush. The partner and the husband aren’t catching my interest either.
This isn’t the first show to go with a long running investigation angle, and my experience has been making the viewers wait till the end of a season for the conclusion kills interest.
The procedural template calls for a crime being solved nearly every episode making each episode stand on its own. This goes against that template and demands the viewers recall and keep track of what went on in the earlier episodes. I think that’s just putting to much work in the hands of the regular viewers and makes it impossible for the occasional viewer.
I loved the show! I thought the part about Holder giving the girls pot was actually left open to interpretation. Holder was already smoking when the girls approached him and said “OMG, are you smoking pot?” I don’t why the girls would ask him that particular question unless Holder was indeed smoking pot. I thought Holder behaved rather skeevy around young girls more than once throughout those two episodes. I think future episodes will reveal just what kind of person he really is, and how low he will go to acquire information. It should be interesting!
I’m probably wrong here, but I got the impressoin that he wasn’t really smoking pot, and was hoping the two girls wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. He saw the brown-haired girl smile at him in the hall, and figured that was his mark, and being “cool” would be the way to earn their trust. To me, it was reinforced by the same girl taking a hit, and then about 30 seconds later saying, “Man, I am SO stoned right now.”
I know, I know. The chances of a couple of high school kids not knowing what pot smells like is a bit of a stretch.
Well then I’d say that Holder is either more intuitive than I thought or just plain lucky to be able to anticipate that much in advance just how these girls would respond to him. But this is also why I said that it seemed pretty open for interpretation. They left it to the audience to draw their own conclusions one way or the other, or at least that’s how it seemed to me. But this was just part 1, wasn’t it? It’ll be interesting to see what Holder does in future episodes. I think we’ll truly see what he’s all about as the show progresses. By the way, I agree, high school kids not knowing what pot smells like IS a bit of a stretch.
Yeah, I swung back and forth on that one.
Part of me thought he just saw girls eager to seem more worldly than they were and went with it when they reacted to his hand rolled cigarette (which just looks cooler) as marijuana.
The other part of me figured that he came from working undercover so certainly isn’t uncomfortable with the idea of using minor illegal behavior to get people to trust him. But this does suggest that either a) he’s always carrying his pot around on his person, which seems like a bad idea for any cop, or b) he scored some there on campus, which also seems like a really bad idea.
I’m assuming that it was real marijuana, although he was smoking it merely to get the kids to open up, and it worked well. (One can assume that a former narcotics officer knows how to get pot quickly and quietly.)