{"id":929,"date":"2010-09-20T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/09\/two-new-cop-shows.html"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:24:00","slug":"two-new-cop-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/09\/two-new-cop-shows.html","title":{"rendered":"Two New Cop Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE new television season is starting, and there are a lot of new cop shows. So far the best I’ve seen is the mellow, low-key Terriers<\/i>, which I reviewed for The Hollywood Reporter last week. Two new shows try a lot harder but achieve less.\u00a0<\/span>

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Here’s my review of the\u00a0<\/span>Hawaii Five-0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0reboot, which begins:\u00a0<\/span>

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<\/a>By the time the shooting begins in earnest on “Hawaii Five-0,” about halfway through the pilot, the action comes across well-directed, the camerawork crisp, the pace just right. But it took half an hour to get to this, and it just wasn’t worth it.<\/span><\/i>

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And here’s <\/span>Chase<\/span><\/a>, and its lead:<\/span>

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“Chase” begins with a fit blonde in tight jeans and a sharp leather jacket chasing a criminal through the streets of an unnamed city, brow furrowed in concentration. Pretty soon they’re in a stockyard — this turns out to be Fort Worth — then a rodeo. We’re all over Texas in this hourlong drama from NBC, and by show’s end we’ll be everywhere from Houston’s skyline to a cowboy bar in San Antonio to a border crossing into Mexico.<\/span><\/i>

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In short, <\/span>Chase<\/span><\/i> seemed to me formulaic, but it has potential and the lead is quite good. <\/span>Hawaii<\/span><\/i> <\/span>Five-0<\/span><\/i> — which has some serious talent behind it — only shines during the action scenes. The original is much smarter and cooler. Maybe they’ll both get better.\u00a0<\/span>

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I’m sure some people will like both shows, and many critics like <\/span>Five-0<\/span><\/i> quite a bit. But here’s the thing: We are supposedly in a golden age of television, and shows like <\/span>Deadwood<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Wire<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Sopranos<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Office<\/span><\/i>, etc., have shown how good TV can be. Does every new show have to be as good as those? Of course now. But they’ve gotta be better than this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE new television season is starting, and there are a lot of new cop shows. So far the best I’ve seen is the mellow, low-key Terriers, which I reviewed for The Hollywood Reporter last week. Two new shows try a lot harder but achieve less.\u00a0Here’s my review of the\u00a0Hawaii Five-0\u00a0reboot, which begins:\u00a0By the time the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[229,77,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hawaii","7":"category-television","8":"category-texas","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}