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[shadowkat]

Watched The Mysteries of Laura pilot, and I don't know...it seemed rather amateurish and clunky to me. Either I've been watching far too many high quality produced television series and my standards have risen a bit high, or someone was asleep in the editing room or in the director chair? I'm thinking the latter, since I do watch General Hospital each day, and you know there's a problem when a prime time series comes across as clunkier than an insanely plotted daytime soap opera. Then again, my expectations are admittedly much lower for daytime soaps.

While it could improve, based on the pilot and the vast number of television and entertainment choices - I don't see this series surviving past November, if that. Could be wrong about that. I'm not staying with it at any rate - too much tv, too little time, and well - the lead characters grated on my nerves and one too many cliches.

It's about a homicide detective, who is a crack shot, but at home is a frazzled mom with an unsupportive and cheating spouse whom she is trying to unsuccessfully divorce.
And two insanely hyperactive boys, who require sedation or are a really good argument for birth control, one or the other. There's a pretty and competitive female co-worker, whose bitchy (making me miss Cagney and Lacey), and a tough partner. The mystery concludes in a way that sort of shakes up Laura's life. But I was spoiled on it already. The actor who played Keith Mars in Veronica Mars plays her boss...but he's wasted in the episode and more or less gone at the end of the episode.

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[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I had the same feelings. The show needs major changes right away or it's not going to make it. I don't know about you, but after the first go around I cringed every time the scene shifted to her family. We know the drill, and I don't think they can afford spend that much air time with her naughty children and her awful husband all in the same room.

I felt Laura's first boss was a bright light in a fairly lame supporting cast. I can't complain about the way the mystery part of the story went, but when the weird gay assistant is the most interesting supporting character left,..

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but after the first go around I cringed every time the scene shifted to her family. We know the drill, and I don't think they can afford spend that much air time with her naughty children and her awful husband all in the same room.

Yep. Felt exactly the same way. I wanted to smack the husband upside the head. I think they were trying for comedy - but it didn't play. Instead the hubby and kids came off as annoying.

Too over-the-top. They need to take that down a few notches.Or find a good babysitter - so that we don't see the kids that often.

I felt Laura's first boss was a bright light in a fairly lame supporting cast.

And now he's gone. They didn't build it that well - in part because the show was trying to do too many things at once. Admittedly pilots do have that tendency. But I think the problem is it wanted to be a family sitcom and a mystery/cop show at the same time. Not sure that works.

Agreed...the only interesting character left was her weird assistant..who felt a wee bit stereotypical.