I want to say F-You NBC, but I should really say F-You TV VIEWERS for watching crap instead of watching this show. NBC can't keep a show on the air if no one is watching.
NBC greenlit it.
NBC produced it.
And NBC out it on the air.
I love this show, but it is so cancelled.
I usually give a new show three chances before I bail out, but this show was so bad I gave up after one episode. I can name many shows are much better. This show is poorly written If you want female lead characters "Revenge} and "Ringer" are better. If you want a female cop than watch "Unforgettable" I don't think "Unforgettable is a very good show but it is still a lot better than P/S
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Revenge is a soap. And if you think Unforgettable is better than Prime Suspect you don't know a think about decent television.
shareRevenge is a very good soap, I like sell done soaps. Prime suspect was canceled and unforgettable is doing well enough to not get canceled. I never said was a very good show, as a matter of fact the point I was making is that even a show like unforgettable which isn't very good is something I would rather watch than prime suspect. The point is that NBC tried real hard to get people to like it but people still refused to watch.
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If you prefer mediocrity then all power to you. But personally, "Prime Suspect" is the best network cop drama, nevermind procedural, to have aired since "Life". And as somebody who watches a lot of cop dramas, that's saying something.
shareI worked as a cop for 20 years in NY and judging from the one episode I watched "Prime Suspect" was one of the most unrealistic worst cop shows
PS "Unforgetable" also isn't very realistic but is more realistic and more fun to watch
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You have to excuse me if I don't believe you. Anybody could say they were the Queen of England on these boards for all that would matter.
Are you talking about the "Unforgettable" with a "Detective" who wears nothing but tank tops and jeans in New York bloody City in the fall? Can I say "Brrr"? And whose special power apparently involves "remembering very hard"? At least Prime Suspect has the advantage of a stable of absolutely fantastic actors. Poppy Montgomery was mediocre in "Without a Trace" and she is mediocre here.
Speaking of "unrealistic cop shows", how about "NCIS", with a bunch of "We do anything" glorified evidence techs who also solve crimes, commit assassinations, run counterintelligence, engage in SAR operations in the middle of war zones... need I go on? "NCIS Los Angeles", with a team who has by now killed what must be a statistically significant portion of the LA population with absolutely no psychological consequences, and violates international laws for the lulz? "Hawaii 5-0", who violates due process, set off a bloody fragmentation grenade in the middle of a public street, and kills dozens, if not hundreds, of people with absolutely no psychological impact? "The Mentalist", with its "psychic" mindfrakker who solves cases better than actual trained police detectives but does things any half decent judge would throw the case out for? "Castle", which is the same thing, but with a writer? This is the same writer, by the way, who somehow was better able to resolve a terror plot than the actual counterterrorism agent. All of the CSIs, for enough reasons to fill out a small textbook? "Law and Order SVU", which takes a... relaxed stance on a suspect's due process and citizen rights because "It's okay, he's a rapist, he deserves it"?
Dear God, I think that's all of them.
If you think that "Prime Suspect" is the least realistic cop show on network, you clearly are not looking hard enough.
All the show you mentioned are not realistic, I happen to enjoy them and the fact that a person can not transfer to NYPD from another department bothers me less than the things I watched on the first episode of Prime suspect. A big part of my problem is that the female cop was too over the top trying to hard to appear macho.
I can post proof I was a cop but I don't like to give out personal info, and someone would call it fake
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A big part of my problem is that the female cop was too over the top trying to hard to appear macho.
It was unfortunate that the first episode was not very good. I think if I had watched it when it first aired I would have been turned off too. I started with the third episode and fell in love, then when on line and watched the first two. Sadly the show got better with each episode but it was too late to save the show.
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This show isn't bad but it's not bringing much new to the genre.
Of course, the same could be said about 99% of what is on TV - at best.
It's kind of a mystery of what succeeds and what fails on TV.
Maria Bello is a great actress but the character she was playing wasn't very likable. Honestly, I gave it 2 episodes and I knew it was good but not good enough for me to tune in every week. A show like this needs to be on HBO or Showtime because it reminded me a little bit of "the Wire" because there is so much you have to hold back on network television.
shareUnlike the other poster, I do actually believe you when you say you were a cop. But...I cannot believe you put much thought into it when you suggested "Unbelievable"...er...I mean "Unforgettable" is more believable than Prime Suspect. Unforgettable revolves around a woman that doesn't forget anything. A disease that only about 1 and 1 million people have. And, she dresses like she's Cindy Crawford as opposed to a cop. It's an entertaining show, sure. But, certainly not as believeable when you are comparing it to Prime Suspect. And, you definitely wouldn't be able to just rejoin the force after years away as Montgomery's character would.
Really, it doesn't matter in the long run because Unforgettable will get a back 9, but it won't make it past that. CBS will cancel it in favor of the higher rated Person of Interest. Both Prime Suspect and Unforgettable will be forgotten by the time Fall 2012 rolls around. And, by that time we will have new shows to argue about! :)
Thanks to the poster who gave a shout-out to Life. That was a FANTASTIC show!!
I truly believe if they had given Kenny Johnson more screen time and an awesome storyline the show would have made it. People remember him from The Shield and have been waiting for something more. He has a huge following. He's the only reason I was watching. Very disappointing.
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This is one of the best cop shows I have seen in a while. I love each character and I love how they interact with each other. I really hope they dont cancel it.
shareI haven't seen it yet, here in Italy it will start this week.
I saw the promo and I must say it's horrible. It does look like someone said here "that the female cop was too over the top trying to hard to appear macho". The picture here on IMDB it makes her look like a cowboy, and I really don't that's a good thing. Anyway, I'm going to watch this series because I like very much Maria Bello.
The UK Prime Suspect was brilliant, maybe the expectations were too high for this one? I don't know, I have to see it first.
Hey...I watched it every week...Not all TV Viewers watch crap
God you can have Megan Fox...Give us back Vivien Leigh
They just started showing it in the UK, and I got through the first 2 episodes just out of support for Maria Bello. It has improved significantly since then. I think a bad pilot was the show's biggest problem
But I don't blame the viewers. Prime Suspect" was pulling in similar (and sometimes better) 18-49 numbers to "The Vampire Diaries" and had more viewers than "Whitney" on occasion. But "Whitney" is a pet project to support Whitney Cummings because she created "Two Broke Girls" and the CW has lower standards for what keeps a show on the air than NBC.
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