ManicMammy’s Blog

I skyplussed and started watching this series just under a year ago when I was up feeding the baby in the wee hours. I must say I really like it.

It’s a crime drama and the lead role is played by Kyra Sedgwick. She’s the deputy chief of LAPD’s homicide squad, a southerner moved to LA, Brenda Leigh Johnson. Her style reminds me a bit of Columbo. The show has a great feel to it. Laid back and very entertaining. It’s good to see a female lead in a cop/detective series.

Brenda, whilst being an excellent investigator is very disorganised in her personal life. Scatterbrained, messy, constantly battling herself with her sugar and sweet cravings, her inability to park, her failed romances make her more credible and endearing. Her personal relationship with FBI agent Fritz is intertwined with the cases and her work well.

She has a substantial number of supporting officers and their characters too are interesting, diverse and believable. Each with their own idiosyncrasies. I’m particularly fond of Provenza, the old timer and Tao, the lieutenant usually left to deal with forensics and computers.

The dialogue is usually great, a fair bit of amusing banter and dry wit between the main characters. The show is now on its third series and at this stage much of the friction that began when Brenda, the outsider new boss was brought in, has dissipated. The team are more together and now dealing with outside conflict.

 It’s worth trying and catch various episodes from series 1 and 2 on More 4 and channel 6.

Rated 4/5 on Nov 08 2007 by ManicMammy
Review Tags: american, cops, crime, tv, tv series
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