{"id":1362,"date":"2011-02-10T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2011-02-10T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:00:10","slug":"box-watch-suspect-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-suspect-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch: Suspect Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a history of Law & Order<\/a> and The Shield<\/a> on my sheet*<\/super>, one might have safely assumed that I transferred my cop show tastes to CSI<\/i>, Without a Trace<\/i>, Cold Case<\/i> and\/or Criminal Minds<\/i> when the runs of L&O<\/i>, et al finished. Nuh-uh. The flashwhizzbang-don’t-dare-change-channels style of most of them is not to my taste and even though they’re led by great actors like William Peterson<\/strike> Laurence Fishburne\/David Caruso\/Gary Sinise<\/b>, Anthony Lapaglia<\/b>, and Mandy Patinkin<\/strike> Joe Mantegna<\/b> there are so many pretty people**<\/super> in those shows that, well, call me shallow but I find it really annoying. That and they always get their man***<\/super>.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to three reasons why I’ll be trying Minds<\/i> spin-off Suspect Behaviour<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Janeane Garofalo<\/b> for whom I’ve carried a film and TV torch since The Truth About Cats and Dogs<\/i> and The Larry Sanders Show<\/i>;<\/p>\n

2. Michael Kelly<\/b> who first dirtied my eyeballs in The Shield<\/i> as a nasty wee serial killer, and then showed smarts and compassion as one of the few sympathetic officers in Generation Kill<\/i>;<\/p>\n

3. and Forest Whitaker<\/b>. Nuff said.<\/p>\n

The title may be an awkward mouthful. It may be a spin-off of something I’m dubious about (with dubious reasons, yes). Don’t know who’s behind the camera, or who’s writing it.<\/p>\n

But talent like that, in one show, is something I’m not passing up.<\/p>\n

*<\/super> The Wire<\/i> has largely ruined my cop show enthusiasm – I can now only watch running, shouty, gun-drawing homicide cops with the same detachment that I enjoy Hellboy<\/i>, The A-Team<\/i> or Transformers<\/i>.<\/small><\/p>\n

**<\/super> A rather scathing Vidiot review of Cold Case<\/i> put me off sight unseen (can’t find the link, sorry).<\/small><\/p>\n

***<\/super> L&O<\/i> cops may have always got their offender, but sometimes they still got away with it in court.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a history of Law & Order and The Shield on my sheet*, one might have safely assumed that I transferred my cop show tastes to CSI, Without a Trace, Cold Case and\/or Criminal Minds when the runs of L&O, et al finished. Nuh-uh. The flashwhizzbang-don’t-dare-change-channels style of most of them is not to my … <\/p>\n

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