NanoFrog

Amanda Sheffield carries the full weight of a very dee cop drama extremely well. She, the entire cast is outstanding. There is a young boy around 8, Thomas, and he is a jewel. He is not at all the average kid actor. He is save. He is the man of his house, he is curious, intelligent and takes every scene he is in. His chemistry with Seyield could not be sweeter or more real. This is a cop show about a woman cop written and directed from a woman's point of view..not a cop show about a woman written from yet another man's point of view. There is a lot of backtracking and time shifts to build character background and these shifts are done with a rare clarity. The story evolves around the seeming murders of young women who live on the street. Maybe the killer is a cop. One of the brilliant things in the writing is the way we view the big city masculine dominated police culture through a woman's eyes and experience, Sheffield's character as a cop grew up in the neighbourhood of the killings. She went to school with many of them. She has a sister who is on the streets with these women and worries about her to absolute distraction. Being a patrol officer who does not normally, and is prohibited from actual investigation of crimes, she goes ahead anyway and there is your story. It is not a story for cop action fans. It is deeper and boils more slowly. Women writers, directors and actors are coming more and more into their own and it is valuable and beautiful and has things to teach all of us.

To many body cam views. Very tedious. This whole series looks like it was shot with a cheap mobile hone. The cast is very good, they are not the problem. These producers are very good with Chicago and NYC drama, but something is lost in translation over to LA...next problem: the writing. The writing is not good. The direction as well seems to staged. Yes it is actors in a drama but the flow is stiff and articial. The photography, aside from to many body cam views, is also not interesting at all. For a work by two such accomplished producers this series is hardly u to the standards one might expect. In the final episode the bad writing reaches its peak with uniformed officers in marked cars taking down a so-called major drug deal. No way are uniformed officers in marked cars doing work like this. Special tactical units do work like this. This is a perfect example of just how truly bad the writing is. It is unbelievably bad. And that is just one example. Finally, the 30 minute time format is nonsense, a bad joke really. This cookie-cutter. Copy and paste writing staged in a non-serious format with abysmal photography. Promising but a major fail at this point.

First of all, I can count on one hand the number of films or series that are worthy of a 10. Only a family member or a producer would hype their work as a 10. Secondly, the series iopens with a soldier in Saul's army telling the king that the Philistine army numbered 200,000 soldiers. Nowhere on earth, at that time, was there an army so large, it is an absurd exaggeration that discredits every scene that comes after it. Though the film offers a disclaimer of certain facts being altered for what they call story-telling purposes, when such easily discernible facts as the size of armies if an absurd exaggeration like this, how much can you trust this kind of story telling? I would say not very much. Everyone who has read the bible or is any sort of student of history knows the story of David killing a giant warrior...from an early age. It is such a fundamental story there is no excuse for the fantasy proportions from which this quasi-propaganda series has been made. It is better to adhere more closely to the known facts and allow the characters to be developed with artistic license and imagination rather than such bold-faced nonsense; destroying the hope for credibility at any level, this series just becomes yet another formless fantasy, usurping a few historical names for no good reason.