Rizzoli and Isles - Pilot -- Anyone going to watch this?

[BrotherBenny]

Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander play Det. Jane Rizzoli and ME Maura Isles respectively in this television series based on the novels by Tess Gerritsen.

Who's looking forward to seeing this?

 

[Othello]

Hell yeah. Angie Harmon is smoking hot and a good actress to boot. I was quite bummed her "Women's Murder Club" was canceled a few years back.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

I shall check it out, I like both actresses past work.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hell yeah. Angie Harmon is smoking hot and a good actress to boot. I was quite bummed her "Women's Murder Club" was canceled a few years back.

I was bummed when she left Law & Order...

 

[Jack Bauer]

It looks like a fun show. Plus they're two hot chicks.

 

[BrotherBenny]

It looks like a fun show. Plus they're two hot chicks.

The books are good, and the chicks are hot. Win-win combination.

Though I have one caveat. If the suits start interfering, I shall be most aggrieved and send them a really nasty letter telling them to let the writers be. And if the writers screw, I'm going to go Punisher on their butts.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Oh man, there are just too many cop shows out there. Is there anything different about this iteration?

 

[startrekwatcher]

I'm passing--I've had my fill of cop shows--once you've seen one you've seen them all.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Oh man, there are just too many cop shows out there. Is there anything different about this iteration?

Maybe one is grizzled vet days from retirement and the other is a loose cannon?

 

[Jack Bauer]

Hopefully it's good. I've missed seeing Sasha Alexander ever since she left NCIS. She looks great in the promos. I guess it's just another cop show that's not dark like NYPD Blue and more like The Closer. The main draw will probably be the interaction between the main characters. There's not much you can do with the cop show genre that's new and different other than using different personality types interacting on the job.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Honestly, I'm not sure if there will be anything different about it, but I am looking forward to watching it nonetheless, as I enjoy the books and the two women in the lead roles.

We'll see whether it is just another run of the mill police procedural or whether they have done something different with it.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

While the actresses' relative 'hotness' does not interest me in the slightest, I am giving this show a try right now, and my ultimate viewing decision will be based on...you know, whether or not it's a good show.

So far, nothing special. But not bad either. I'll give it a few episodes.

 

[JiNX-01]

Well, I tried. I liked Sasha Alexander from when she was on NCIS and was looking forward to seeing her on TV again.

But then....

Spoiler: Rizzoli and Isles

When Rizzolli insisted on being left alone in her apartment after the psychopath who had previously tortured her and tried to kill her escaped, I decided that she was too stupid to watch.

So I changed the channel to HGTV and watched House Hunters. At least they aren't morons.

 

[stj]

The gimmick seems to be that this is Butch & Lipstick.

Angie Harmon as Butch is casting against type! (Being Butch is why she has to stay in the apartment by herself.) We know Angie Harmon is Butch because she's the one who rough houses with her brother, and we know whozis (Sasha Alexander?) is Lipstick because she dresses up to clean house.

The scene where Butch & Lipstick are on the bed is nothing but lesbian subtext explicitly contradicted by text. What are you going to do with that? I think this one will fall between two stools. Lesbians are more chic, but a lesbian lead in a cop show? Still risky and they aren't going there. But writing the subtext will just turn them into failed heterosexuals. I think there'll have to be a soft reboot to make this work.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I've read the books, so I know the characters. Rizzoli is a no-nonsense Boston cop, the only female homicide detective in the city supposedly, and she's portrayed as tough so that even though she was nearly killed by the Surgeon, she's not letting him win the psychological war he is waging when the Apprentice comes to town.

Even in the books, Isles is a bit of a weird person and they've just enhanced that.

I liked the fact that they used a villain from the books to make the pilot, but it will be interesting to see where they go from here. Yes it is standard cop fare, but I'll keep watching for now.

 

[JiNX-01]

I've read the books, so I know the characters. Rizzoli is a no-nonsense Boston cop, the only female homicide detective in the city supposedly, and she's portrayed as tough so that even though she was nearly killed by the Surgeon, she's not letting him win the psychological war he is waging when the Apprentice comes to town.

Frankly, I'm tired of the cocky female cop who thinks she can handle anything and anybody -- even tho' it's been clearly demonstrated here -- in a flashback, no less -- that this is one guy she can't handle (and let me guess, he meets up with his apprentice and then she takes on both of them and survives. )

 

[BrotherBenny]

I've read the books, so I know the characters. Rizzoli is a no-nonsense Boston cop, the only female homicide detective in the city supposedly, and she's portrayed as tough so that even though she was nearly killed by the Surgeon, she's not letting him win the psychological war he is waging when the Apprentice comes to town.

Frankly, I'm tired of the cocky female cop who thinks she can handle anything and anybody -- even tho' it's been clearly demonstrated here -- in a flashback, no less -- that this is one guy she can't handle (and let me guess, he meets up with his apprentice and then she takes on both of them and survives. )

Exactly, but two things you have to remember is that this is based almost exactly on the book, and female writers tend to write female leads who are tough and think they can handle themselves in any situation. It is an endemic problem, but who wants to read about a wimpy female cop who runs to her partner, boss or boyfriend in a gunfight?

 

[JiNX-01]

I've read the books, so I know the characters. Rizzoli is a no-nonsense Boston cop, the only female homicide detective in the city supposedly, and she's portrayed as tough so that even though she was nearly killed by the Surgeon, she's not letting him win the psychological war he is waging when the Apprentice comes to town.

Frankly, I'm tired of the cocky female cop who thinks she can handle anything and anybody -- even tho' it's been clearly demonstrated here -- in a flashback, no less -- that this is one guy she can't handle (and let me guess, he meets up with his apprentice and then she takes on both of them and survives. )

Exactly, but two things you have to remember is that this is based almost exactly on the book, and female writers tend to write female leads who are tough and think they can handle themselves in any situation. It is an endemic problem, but who wants to read about a wimpy female cop who runs to her partner, boss or boyfriend in a gunfight?

She doesn't have to be a wimp. I just want want her to demonstrate that she has at least half a brain cell. She's already been tortured by a sociopath who was acting alone and in Monday's pilot she has two of them hunting for her.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Imo the show is not horrible, but it is unbelievably cliché.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I agree about the stupidity of Harmon's character insisting upon staying at her own place alone when there are TWO really scary men after her. That is just a dumbass thing to do. Yeah, you want to portray her as tough and all that...but as they said right in the show, there is a line between courage and stupidity. And staying there alone falls on the 'stupidity' side of that line, IMO.

I also thought Sasha Alexander's character's determination to help clean house in nice clothing to be just silly. If she was really THAT into nice clothing, she wouldn't want to ruin it that way. That is just dumb.