Not because it stinks, it's competently made. There are a few actors you'll recognize (yes, it's the Game of Thrones dude), and the police procedural stuff is okay. Unfortunately it has two very large flaws, first the cast is much too large . . . er, still (ahem). You can get away with four or five, but not seven, eight? I lost count. There's no way to stay connected with that many people. Second, it fails to learn from the foreign cable police revolution like Braquo, Bron, Forbrydelsen and particularly Engrenages, which it dearly wants to be. Those series remained interesting week after week because they were a continuation of one long plot. Instead Crossing Lines is apparently adopting the US model of a new case every week, and that's just archaic, it doesn't work any more.
But it's dead on arrival because I didn't even know it existed until I stumbled across it (on usenet) and was curious enough to look it up. If NBC is doing any advertising for the show, I haven't seen it . . . of course, I can't think of anything I watch on NBC. And there's zero internet buzz, still waiting for five votes?? You have to get all the way to "Crossing (blank)" before it comes up on the search menu here. That's sick for a new series. I wonder if it will even last the 10 shows scheduled in the US?
PS: Newfreeman, there are only two other reviews aside from yours, and neither of us "rubbished" it. I said . . . well, what I wrote above, it's competent. But it's not great, in spite of the (Following inspired) wounded genius cop, he didn't actually solve the first crime, it was pretty much deus ex machina, eh? And as far as the actions of the various cops are concerned, John Cooper would have bitch slapped them for being so careless. Of course, many cop shows have those faults, how many times did Sarah Lund run into some dark hallway with zero backup?
But it's dead on arrival because I didn't even know it existed until I stumbled across it (on usenet) and was curious enough to look it up. If NBC is doing any advertising for the show, I haven't seen it . . . of course, I can't think of anything I watch on NBC. And there's zero internet buzz, still waiting for five votes?? You have to get all the way to "Crossing (blank)" before it comes up on the search menu here. That's sick for a new series. I wonder if it will even last the 10 shows scheduled in the US?
PS: Newfreeman, there are only two other reviews aside from yours, and neither of us "rubbished" it. I said . . . well, what I wrote above, it's competent. But it's not great, in spite of the (Following inspired) wounded genius cop, he didn't actually solve the first crime, it was pretty much deus ex machina, eh? And as far as the actions of the various cops are concerned, John Cooper would have bitch slapped them for being so careless. Of course, many cop shows have those faults, how many times did Sarah Lund run into some dark hallway with zero backup?