What makes it different from others?

Just so...so bad

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

If there was ever a show that really shouldn't have lasted a season, it's this (and well, Firefly). I don't mean that it's the best one-season show I've ever seen, but more that it's certainly one of the most purely entertaining ones I've seen. It just clicks from the start. The show it most reminds me of is Breaking Bad, its seamless mix of both drama and comedy from the start. But there were just so many more places the show could have gone if it had gone longer. The two leads' chemistry is enough to rank them as one of the best pairs TV has seen. Donal Logue is crazy brilliant, spitting out dialogue in the most natural manner. This guy deserves to be bigger. Michael Raymond- James is great too, although that's more of a TV crush that I now have.

I started watching this show because of Rachel Miner, whom I truly admire. From the first episode I realized this was a good show. I got addicted to it from the second episode! It's only thirteen episodes, so I finished it in three days. The directors do great work, dialogues are really smart and elegant (I don't mean that they don't curse, but it's not insulting in my opinion.). The series starts from one crime, then it changes, but it goes back in a really dark and sort of difficult case, but it does it so simple to understand, the climax. Great acting, great scenario, great feeling, and an amazing ending! It's really worth your time!

Having just watched this outstanding series for the third time, I really find it hard to believe how Terriers struggled to find an audience - the marketing department at FX should hang their heads in shame.It's up there with Firefly, Studio 60 and Freaks and Geeks, as one of the great TV shows cut short far too early. Having said that, maybe the reason all of these shows felt so good were that they never got the chance to go on too long, ruining the memory of former greatness. Terriers revolves around Hank (Donal Logue) and Britt (Michael Raymond-James), a couple of private eyes working in Ocean Beach, San Diego. The best episodes involve an ongoing story that is introduced in the pilot and concludes in the final episode of the 13 part season. This story is complex, nail-biting and heart-breaking, leaving you wanting more. While the other single case episodes suffer in comparison, they are still solidly entertaining and quirky enough to elevate them from the norm.The show also succeeds in providing us with two main characters who we genuinely care about, despite their pasts and personality flaws. Hank's sobriety and continuing love for his ex-wife Gretchen (Kimberley Quinn) and Britt's criminal past and romantic problems with Katie (Laura Allen) are as important to the show as the cases they solve. Great performances and writing throughout make this a near-perfect series.There really is little wrong with the show other than the poor viewing figures it received. The ending set it up perfectly for another season, but it still works extremely well as the one-off season it turned out to be.

Why didn't this show attract more viewers? Well-written and superbly acted, this show, one would think, should have been a slam dunk. I fell in love with it after seeing just one episode. Problem was I waited until there was nothing else on before I watched the first one. Well, looking back on my own experience I'm guessing I ignored the show for weeks based on a personal bias against small dogs and sitcoms, both of which are implied in the title of this series. It's about neither, nor are they the main reasons it crashed and burned.The biggest flaw the show had that I could see was its scrunge factor. My GF couldn't get past it, and I have to admit I had to suspend disbelief whenever these two protagonists coupled up with smart, sexy women, or followed the story line that one of them, an unshaven and untrimmed reformed drunk and ex-cop who had been kicked off the dept. was previously married to a responsibly-minded goddess; or the other main character, a reformed B&E artist, wasn't in the least bit reformed. Viewers want to identify with the characters... Doh! So after all of that, what was good about the show? Every single character was real. Their emotions were real. Yeah, sure. No, true that. In all sincerity this show was a tribute to the triune brain - about how the leftover parts of our reptilian brains can trick us into following what we know is def the wrong path, or cloud our judgment and cause us to react instead of following the logical thinking man's parts of our brains and doing the right thing. What differentiated these guys from boilerplate PI shows (which BTW is what these guys were, PIs, unlicensed naturally) is they were smart enough to recognize what was happening but powerless to suppress their feelings, sort of like this review. Well worth watching the reruns. Clean these guys up, change the title and bring them back, please?