Ironside

I'll be watching this... Underwood has the chops, but he can't carry a TV show on his own. There's gotta be top notch writing.

 

If it wasn't for Underwoods line "sometimes you see things from a different perspective down here" I might have given this a shot.

 

Case in point.

 

first thing I thought of when I saw the trailer

 

This reboot will never compare to the original

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I don't agree with that assessment, but this just looks goddamn uninteresting. So CBS.

That said, like Chicago Fire, it might actually do well.

 

Currently watching the second episode. Still uninteresting and unimaginative. Take out the wheelchair, change a few lines (instead of being in a wheelchair the guy could just be really short for all the difference it would make) and it's pretty much any other procedural with a "tough as nails" detective who leads an "elite squad" while gaining the "respect and admiration" etc.

And of course he's something of a lady's man (hot sort-of girlfriend, hot ex-girlfriend too pre-wheelchair) while his ex-partner is a drunk with problems who blames himself for his partner's injury. Just about every cliche in the book is hit in this series so far. He even gives his captain **** and gets away with it while he's breaking all kinds of laws (abusive treatment of prisoners, threats, the usual).

If this series isn't cancelled already I think it will be by next week.

Which is a disappointment because it was so loaded with potential and a chance to shake things up with the typical procedural. I think the actors are above it so I don't know why they are here except the paycheck.

And there's the controversy of Blair Underwood not being a genuine paraplegic. I'll give them credit for casting a black man in the role but I also see they weren't interested in pushing this series too far past that. Like I said, uninteresting, uninspiring.

 

That is probably better than the show could ever be.

 

Sadly it is. And if the third episode doesn't do something more than "look at the tough stereotypical detective... in a wheelchair!" then it'll also be my last.