I feel like I should just get a time-saving review template to use over the summer. “Hey, everybody! A basic-cable network is premiering a light, escapist procedural about cops and/or spies with personality quirks and gritty, but not alienatingly challenging, cases! It’s not Mad Men, but what the hey, who wants to think about stuff in the summer anyway, right? It’s just competently made, harmless fun, like [name of fondly remembered though dated show from the '80s]! Watch it, unless you already have plans, in which case don’t! You can always catch it next week! Have a great summer, bye!”
I could have gotten a lot of mileage out of that these past couple weeks, as basic-cable further ramped up its summer programming with dramas including last night’s fine-but-forgettable Rizzoli and Isles.
