Okay so for starters; I'm an insomniac. I read a lot but sometimes I just want to binge on streaming as the night seems to pass quicker. That being said I've run out of all the "modern" popular crime dramas. I was hesitant about this one but it was well filmed and well choreographed. It was even mostly well written and the acting was also above par.
However.. I don't know what they were thinking with "main character" Allie McCormick (Julie Stewart). They really went bottom of the barrel with her. She's like nails on a chalkboard and just a consistently frustrating person. She's always crying, screaming, flipping out or lying. She does whatever she wants with zero consequences, including once stabbing a cuffed suspect because he teased her, and is always going rogue.. yet is the first one to lecture someone else for going overboard or doing something wrong. Plus she's beyond immature. Her snarky "HEH HEH" laugh whenever she has no rhetort is super obnoxious.. combined with how she grins, with her small pointy yellow teeth, it makes her look like a raging psychopath. Her actual laugh is this gnarly cackle. Her voice, especially the yelling, goes right through you. As a whole she is just seriously unhinged.
All of the other characters have been mostly great but this would be so much better without her; the out of control, miserable, overemotional, overcompensating female cop personified. But if you can manage to tune her out this is a pretty well rounded show. I found it interesting, as an American, to get a glimpse at the Canadian legal system and court system.
I also enjoyed that they brought the behavioral aspects of crime in right away in the first episode by introducing things like forensic psychology and profiling techniques.
If you are into crime dramas but not so much on the gore this may be a solid fit. It's not exactly Murder She Wrote but it's also not Bones or Criminal Minds as far as gore and violence go. It does cover some sensitive topics but really what doesn't? Nothing really over the top.
However.. I don't know what they were thinking with "main character" Allie McCormick (Julie Stewart). They really went bottom of the barrel with her. She's like nails on a chalkboard and just a consistently frustrating person. She's always crying, screaming, flipping out or lying. She does whatever she wants with zero consequences, including once stabbing a cuffed suspect because he teased her, and is always going rogue.. yet is the first one to lecture someone else for going overboard or doing something wrong. Plus she's beyond immature. Her snarky "HEH HEH" laugh whenever she has no rhetort is super obnoxious.. combined with how she grins, with her small pointy yellow teeth, it makes her look like a raging psychopath. Her actual laugh is this gnarly cackle. Her voice, especially the yelling, goes right through you. As a whole she is just seriously unhinged.
All of the other characters have been mostly great but this would be so much better without her; the out of control, miserable, overemotional, overcompensating female cop personified. But if you can manage to tune her out this is a pretty well rounded show. I found it interesting, as an American, to get a glimpse at the Canadian legal system and court system.
I also enjoyed that they brought the behavioral aspects of crime in right away in the first episode by introducing things like forensic psychology and profiling techniques.
If you are into crime dramas but not so much on the gore this may be a solid fit. It's not exactly Murder She Wrote but it's also not Bones or Criminal Minds as far as gore and violence go. It does cover some sensitive topics but really what doesn't? Nothing really over the top.