I clicked on Rizzoli and Isles off my DVR to see how the first episode would grab me and after the first fews minutes, it occured to me that this show is so unoriginal and cliche' that every part of the show could have been cut and pasted from other cop shows:
Here is what I got before I turned it off (in favor of a TLC reality show, which I really don't like, but they are better than this):
Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) is a tough, streetwise Italian-American cop; in the opening sequence, she breaks her nose and is not too upset about it. Her mom makes some comments about when will she meet a nice guy, etc..
She goes to a crime scene where she meets up with Isles who is a pathologist. She is also joined by her partner who is not tough at all, a hunky FBI agent, and a weathered and overbearing police captain.
The crime scene is of an ultra-violent rape/murder scene we have come to expect on cop shows and gives Rizzoli flash backs to when she was abducted and nearly murdered by a murder with the same M.O. but is now in jail.
She goes to meet the original killer, who is now in jail, whom almost killed her in her flashback, to question him. How do you think he behaved? He said inflamatory things to her and they kind of had a weird connection to one another. Rizzoli's partner nearly punched the guy as he said inflamatory things to Rizzoli. And he only gave Clarice, I mean Rizzoli, information after she admitted she dreamed about him.
This is the point I turned it off and I have a couple questions:
1. Who should I feel worse for? Me for having watched some of this terrible show or Angie Harmon who is playing the same role again; does she not remember?
2. Who green-lighted this pile of garbage? I think the studio cost-effectiveness calculator needs to attach less value to "CSI Rehash" when picking new shows.
3. I just finished watching Dinosapien for the 4000th time with my kids and, though it is a BBC International/Discovery Kids production, was much better than this show. Heck, Oobi is a more well written show than this.
Anybody else watch this show? Am I missing something?
Here is what I got before I turned it off (in favor of a TLC reality show, which I really don't like, but they are better than this):
Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) is a tough, streetwise Italian-American cop; in the opening sequence, she breaks her nose and is not too upset about it. Her mom makes some comments about when will she meet a nice guy, etc..
She goes to a crime scene where she meets up with Isles who is a pathologist. She is also joined by her partner who is not tough at all, a hunky FBI agent, and a weathered and overbearing police captain.
The crime scene is of an ultra-violent rape/murder scene we have come to expect on cop shows and gives Rizzoli flash backs to when she was abducted and nearly murdered by a murder with the same M.O. but is now in jail.
She goes to meet the original killer, who is now in jail, whom almost killed her in her flashback, to question him. How do you think he behaved? He said inflamatory things to her and they kind of had a weird connection to one another. Rizzoli's partner nearly punched the guy as he said inflamatory things to Rizzoli. And he only gave Clarice, I mean Rizzoli, information after she admitted she dreamed about him.
This is the point I turned it off and I have a couple questions:
1. Who should I feel worse for? Me for having watched some of this terrible show or Angie Harmon who is playing the same role again; does she not remember?
2. Who green-lighted this pile of garbage? I think the studio cost-effectiveness calculator needs to attach less value to "CSI Rehash" when picking new shows.
3. I just finished watching Dinosapien for the 4000th time with my kids and, though it is a BBC International/Discovery Kids production, was much better than this show. Heck, Oobi is a more well written show than this.
Anybody else watch this show? Am I missing something?
It's too bad this gets so many more viewers than Leverage, which is fairly unique for U.S. TV even if it's kind of a dumbed downed version of BBC's Hustle.