Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Admirable film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Detective Aidan Black (David Sutcliffe) suffers from PTSD after a clean fatal shooting of a child. He's assigned in the new Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit. He is forced to be partnered with psychiatrist Dr. Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten) to investigate crime involving the mentally disturbed. It's a partnership without trust as Ridley is also asked if Aidan is cracked.It's an intriguing new take on an old police procedural. I can certainly see an American show taking elements from this show. David Sutcliffe is a pretty good lead actor. Stefanie von Pfetten gives the show balance but sadly she doesn't return for the second season. The producers probably hoped to be picked up in America but that didn't take off. It was going downhill in the second season anyways.

I watched a few episodes, but it's not worth the time. Story line is awful, acting is awful. The male character doesn't make sense at all, the female psychologist clearly missed half of her psychology classes. Even I as a coach, seem to have better understanding of the human psyche. As said by someone else, indeed weird that an actor like Colantoni accepted a role in the series (2nd episode). Guess this was arranged before it became clear how awfully bad the series would turn out to be. And speak of the devil, isn't this a rip-off of Flashpoint? Sort of similar concept, talk before you shoot, the psychological approach. Don't waste your time on it, there's plenty of good series around!

Let me start by saying that I only watched the pilot for this series. And it was one of the worst pilots I have ever seen. How they managed to churn out more episodes is beyond me.The show has a number of flaws. Firstly the characters are really thin. On top of that the pilot features one of the most unimaginative cases I have ever seen. With so many excellent crime series out there, the writers can hardly expect us to find a light-bulb stuck in a body entertaining, intriguing or intelligent. As if that isn't enough, the characters hardly to any investigating. With the psychiatry angle, I was expecting maybe a little bit of profiling reminiscent of Criminal Minds, but apart from a few really weak questions here and there, nothing really happened.This show is neither good when it comes to psychiatric aspects or crime. All in all, I'm shocked that anyone finds it good. It's a tragedy.

OK, I gave it the benefit of the doubt for the first episode, but I had to switch episode 2 off after about 10 minutes. This show is really bad, mainly because the script writing is so lazy, and the actors just don't seem at all interested to be honest.As a couple of examples, early in the second episode, there is a scene set on the front porch, there are a multitude of knife implements around the main character (a great Canadian actor by the way that has done himself no favours appearing in this!) and the lead detective who is the main focus of 'cracked' replies to a comment concerning the knives saying he can only use one at a time...errrr no, unless multitasking really is beyond the realms of men, he can use two given he has two arms/hands! As an actor why wouldn't you challenge that statement in the script?! It's lazy script writing and acting in my opinion. So OK, that seems petty, how about a few scenes later when they find a car and investigate all around it, then exclaim surprise at finding a blood trail, clearly visible on the ground, as if it had not been noticed before taking the two steps away from the vehicle and the vehicle having been cordoned off by uniformed officers?! Errr, really?! OK, I agree these little observations seem petty, but these two issues happened within the first ten minutes and were not the only things.Overall, I disagree with other comments about the idea for the show, it's a stupid idea, but that is my personal opinion and I understand that writers need to be a bit more evolved around police TV series, because the gritty stuff like nypd blue and homicide:life on the street and the wire have set huge benchmarks that make it difficult to be just plain old police shows, but this is just plain lazy and the person that came up with this idea must be smiling from ear to ear, because he has probably been paid a fortune for five minutes of thought!! It's a bleak start to 2013 if this is the best that TV networks can sign up, especially after the tat that has preceded it like the mob doctor!! Can this show and put more effort in in the future!