User Reviews

No spoilers.

This was a great show, and should have had AT LEAST 2-3 more seasons.

Season 4 opens strong, with Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) pulling off one of the most nuanced roles he's ever tackled. Great writing - logical reasons for the motive, and why the suspect has the ability to pull it off.

Soooooo, why the sudden low ratings? I feel like Detective Flynn changing her hairstyle might have hurt the ratings. Stupid? Yes... but everything about the show stated the same - it was the only change and the ratings dropped. Maybe Det. Kennicki? Perhaps... but Angie kept him in place and he was annoying, but not hateful.

Losing interest in a show because of a hairstyle? I don't want to think people are that shallow... but I think people are that shallow.

That - or maybe the continued changing channels and time for the show. Hopefully it was more that than the hair.

Either way - great job by all of this great cast - great writing (as usual), and excellent work by the visiting killer, Jon Heder. Excellent episode.

There are so many series that by season 3 the creativity of the writers starts to fade. This series just keeps getting better. I was afrraid that season 3 was going to be the peak - both the individual story lines and the ongoing case were riveting - but season 4 has started outwith the same intensity and intrigue.

As far as the question about low ratings that reviewer "fleck" has posed, I see a few possible answers. I was annoyed by Flynn's new hairstyle; not because of the hairstyle itself, but it made her look like a young upstart with an attitude, rather than a seasoned dectective with an earned attitude. By the end of the episode, though, I had adjusted to it. Detective Kennicki is more than annoying, but I suppose his education is going to be the ongoing theme of this season. I won't know for sure until I've watched a few more episodes, but I suspect that the main reason for the drop in ratings, is the dissolution of the partnership between Flynn and Vega. Although they are trying to keep the connection, that tight relationship is not there; neither is the bond the two of them together have with Betty, as far as the crimes are concerned.

These changes don't change my opinion of the series or of this first episode in Season 4. Since I'm binge watching after the fact, the changes in time and days don't affect me, but if viewers couldn't catch the show when they were used to seeing it, I can see how some of the other changes could erode their loyalty. It does make me sad, because I could have watched this show for many more seasons.