Well, it’s not a new show, but it’s new to me. (Anyone reminded of that old commercial for summer reruns: It’s new to you)
Anyway, how come nobody ever told me I would LOVE NYPD Blue? My god, it’s incredible.
The horror of seeing Dennis Franz’s bare ass always kept me away.
NYPD Blue was pretty good, but I stopped watching once I caught on with the formula:
If you can’t think of anything to write, kill off a recurring character.
I got pretty damn tired of people getting killed (sometimes deliberately brought back from a guest shot so they could get killed and everyone could get sad) whenever the writers got stuck (or sweeps were coming up). It was like they couldn’t think of any other way to create drama. I finally got tired of the formula and the audience manipulation.
Still, the dialog was sharp. The show was never very good at plot, but the individual scenes were terrific.
With one exception, I think that everybody who died did so because the actor wanted to leave the show. (Well, two exceptions, maybe, but J.B. doesn’t count – he was only in two episodes before his climactic arc.)
–Cliffy
I’ve tried to watch the show, but I can’t without becoming physically ill (and it has nothing to do with Dennis Franz’s ass).
Did the producers buy the show’s cameras from the “Ev-R-Move” company? Ugh, always with the jittering, and sliding left to right, and bouncing around…never a single still shot! I realize that they’re trying for a “documentary” feel, but damn, it just gives me motion sickness…