The Closer S2E1

So here goes Jon, attempt­ing for the sec­ond time to keep a blog. The last one lasted about a week, maybe two. Recently, I’ve had so much fun com­ment­ing on other blogs, I fig­ured I’d just take the forum up myself. Tonight’s topic: TV.

So I just watched this com­mer­cial free (thanks Audi) sea­son pre­miere of the Kyra Sedgwick star­rer that appar­ently is the most pop­u­lar sum­mer show ever. There’s sum­mer shows? My igno­rance to the bur­geon­ing sea­sonal mar­ket aside, I must say I was impressed by the show, this being the first episode I’ve seen front to back. However, I must say the 60 minute run­time felt like a strain on the writ­ers. The show basi­cally bounced around the same few facts the whole time, and revealed WAY too much in the last six min­utes. I sup­pose that’s the gim­mick that keeps peo­ple watch­ing, and ulti­mately audi­ences are sat­is­fied by being blindly lead through a mildly inter­est­ing hour, only to find out the joke is on them.

What is inter­est­ing is that the show seems to be specif­i­caly geared to a female audi­ence. The show is basi­cally what you get if Dick Wolf cre­ated a series called “Woman’s Intuition”. Kyra Sedgwick has the onus of play­ing a strong female char­ac­ter in a mar­ket replete with real­ity drama queens and daunt­ing house­wives (des­per­ate as they may be). After a sea­son of episodes, it seems as though the officer’s in her precinct might finally real­ize that Sedgwick’s char­ac­ter is more than a cute face, yet most of the gim­mick seems to fall under the char­ac­ter mov­ing her cases for­ward by cap­i­tal­iz­ing on her small stature and south­ern twang. More power to her, in all hon­esty. As afore­men­tioned, she is a wel­come change of pace as far as female leads are con­cerned on tele­vi­sion. But as far as fem­i­nists may have come, she is still hung up on which boy to date! To the overtly male creator’s credit, these usual girl­ish themes are explored in a fas­ci­nat­ing man­ner as we are already lead to believe she’s such a hardass behind that bright pink lipstick.

As a trea­tise to Audi and TNT, please, before broad­cast tele­vi­sion takes that ride into the sun­set and OnDemand and DVD rule for­ever, let’s keep the com­mer­cials com­ing. The writ­ers are buck­ling under the pres­sure to fill in the extra 16 min­utes, and I love grab­bing a snack. So pump up the jamp.

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Listening to:

Jamiroquai

Traveling Without Moving