Common Law

[janedavitt]

Did anyone else watch the pilot for this? It was a little heavy-handed and clunky in places but I always cut pilots some slack and I did enjoy it enough to want to watch it again.

Premise: two cops, both brilliant, at each others throats, in couples counseling to save their partnership.

The amusing bit is that the coroner is Samantha from The Sentinel (Alicia Coppola) and one of the detectives is a horndog who dates every woman in the department and had a one-night stand with her.

There's a scene with him, her, and his partner, that's so like the Blair/Samantha/Jim scenes that I got flashbacks.

The bromance/slash is there but so canon it's almost not worth it, if you know what I mean. Everyone in the group assumed they were gay (yawn) and they have carguments and full on, through a window fistfights -- but when the chips are down, they've got each others backs. One's divorced, amicably enough, the other is the one-night stand guy (issues of abandonment).

Entertaining, though, and a little quirky.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

so are they actually gay or bi? can you tell if that's where it's going?

[janedavitt]

No, both straight in canon. I really doubt they'd go there, sadly.

[silentflux]

YES, it was such a fun watch. I was afraid it might not be as fun as the previews made it, but I can't wait to see how the show progresses :) And that scene in the coroner's office was priceless. And I loved however much they fought, they really understood each other and worked seamlessly when it counted. The therapy scenes and the therapist are interesting as well. *shrugs* I'm very interested to see the new ep on Friday.

[janedavitt]

Definitely want to see a few more ::nods::

[vamysteryfan]

I watched part of it and was kind of meh. But I cut pilots some slack too, so I'll probably watch at least one more ep.

I love spotting Samantha in other shows. She usually plays a tough lady too.

[janedavitt]

She does! I liked her a lot on NCIS.

[samjohnsson]

With the usual grain of salt I cut pilots, especially USA pilots:

I liked it. I was seriously irked by the amount of "we're not gay" lines, but the dynamics were hella amusing. And when you read it as a relationship pivot or OT3 between Alex/Wes/Travis that went horribly awry, it goes to a whole new level of fascinating.

I'm definitely going to give it a few more eps.

[janedavitt]

It really does! I liked that Alex and Wes weren't feuding too.