Good start, but then it gets ruined

Best movie ever!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I was sorry to see this was canceled. The stories were light but interesting and the writing was tight.

NaivetyNaivetySpoilers ahead, although much of it you would get even from just the first episode. So I think Vince Gilligan and David Shore looked at Twin Peaks and decided they wanted to make a series in a similar sort of off beat view, just a fairly different beat. So there is an FBI agent, like Cooper in being somewhat eccentric but in a uch more conventional way. Tall Agent Milt Chamberlin (!) is very successful, in a way that no one seems to be able to understand. Witnesses and suspects respond to his straightforward decency. He has been successful in a posting in Detroit. But no one like that, so very decent and so very successful, is going to be able to progress without making enemies, and Chamberlin has made powerful enemies, including but not limited to his former boss (it is not clear yet how powerful the other are). But Chamberlin shows signs of humanity despite his otherworldly decency. He has to psych himself up to smile when being introduced to his new posting as the resident agent in Battle Creek. He agrees with a Battle Creek cop that no cop could be as naïve as he is and survive.Speaking of which, Dean Winters is Josh Dumel (sp?)'s antagonist on the Battle Creek police force, the one who uttered the line about naivety. WInters - Russ Agnew on the show, is an interesting contrast to Chamberlin. He is a good detective, who seems to solve most of his (straightforward) cases even if he doesn't always put the bad guy in jail. He is used to working with lackluster co-workers and substandard equipment. He is quick to judge and verbal about his judgements, but he is still willing to concede when he is wrong and basically a decent guy. He is often off-putting though when he meets new people and distant from those he works with. And as of episode five, Chamberlin still annoys the hell out of him. And despite the fact Chamberlin says he never lies, he admits he has lied to Agnew (Agnew makes no bones about lying to everyone). And what did Chamberlin do to get sent to Battle Creek, and who sent hi? So small town cops plus big city FBI, like Twin Peaks but not like Twin Peaks. I think it should have done better, gone for a seven season run instead of a half season. Worth a look.

Just finished binge-watching this series on Netflix and I gotta say that I bloody loved it. I know, i know, cop shows are hardly a new genre and there are a 1000 fish in the sea "like" this. BUT.They're not really like this particular buddy-cop show at all. Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters are bloody awesome in their portrayal of these seemingly very different tempered officers of the law. Gotta love this duo: Russ' sometimes ill-tempered behaviour and his somewhat cynical approach at life (while at heart being a secret romantic) and Milt, the do-gooder FBI agent who seems to have some skeletons of his own. Both characters have depth, are totally interesting and. I'm just totally in love with this new series by cbs.And I was like: Oh man, can't wait for season 2! Until I had to find out that they already canceled this show again??? WHY? Seriously, people? Why the bloody hell do always -- at least in the last 1-2 years -- the promising, and you know, the awesome new series get canceled?! Totally disappointed right now. Damn.

Am so happy with this show. It's funny the actors can act and there are twists and turns that keep your interest unlike most of the other simplistic idiot violent shoot-em-up and show as much sex between Barbie & Ken like non actors. I hope it lasts. This and The Good Wife are the only two non-cable shows I will watch (except for old re- runs of shows when networks actually hired WRITERS who could write!!!) Today most of the "hit" shows promote violence and hatred or concentrate on a world gone wrong where desolation and war are everywhere. A few try to recreate the old "family" morals of past years (fake of course as they never existed that way in real life) and kind of preach to the viewer as in some of the newer police shows. It's nice to watch something where the people are diverse not heroes, but not necessarily monsters either. I'm so sick of serial killers and pedophiles being portrayed in black and white cowboy vs. Indians pseudo dramas where there is no question as to who must win and that the ends justify all the means.