tvthatdoesntsuck

Well, I’m a bit excited.

I thought I wouldn’t get to do this for a while.  The true purpose of “TV That Doesn’t Suck” is to tell you what new shows are worth watching.  I’ll follow those new shows, and pretty much review each episode here until they jump the proverbial shark.  Well, tonight, I get to give you the deal on a new CBS police drama.  It’s called “Flash Point.”

Flash Point is pretty much a police drama about really emotional snipers.  Normally, I think most police dramas are crap unless they have the words “The” and “Wire” strung together, but I gave this a chance because of a promising cast.  Okay, I lie, I gave it a chance because Enrico Colantoni from Veronica Mars is one of the stars.  But overall, I’m glad that I did.  It’s a pretty good show, because it really delves into how hard being a sniper can be on someone’s heart.  But thing is… that’s all this show does in the first episode.   It has a nice dramatic set-up, but the second half is basically the main character brooding over swelling, emotional music over the fact that he just put a bullet in some dude’s dome.  It worked for the first few minutes, but I wish they did something more with it, because the way it came off in the end was majorly gimmicky.  “A police drama that doesn’t shy away from showing character’s emotions.”  But for that to work, it needs to be more than that.  Overall, it wasn’t a bad episode, though a series opener should certainly have established more story and character stuff than this one did.  A lot of this just felt like time wasted.

RATING: 5/10

WHERE TO CATCH IT: CBS

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