Reviews

This is an excellent series-or would be if it hadn't turned into a soap opera. I cannot imagine what is in the producers' minds, to ruin the series by introducing every conceivable complication into the characters relationships. This fellow abused his wife and they broke up. That fellow's former wife will lose her house unless her husband does something for the mafia. Meanwhile, he is unaware that his lover is falling in love with another man, and that yet another woman is in love with him. This woman is cheating on her husband with a coworker. This is soap opera, not police procedural, and it's hard to understand why.

I'm now into the third season of the thing, and I keep coming back to see whether any of the oddities will resolve themselves. I'm afraid they never will. It's absolutely hilarious. Characters keep leaving under suspicious circumstances but without any further explanation -- "I've been dismissed," "I've been called to Melbourne; it's political." An air of mystery surrounds characters, but never comes to a head: Charlie is a disciple of the doctor; no, Charlie's job is threatened by the inexplicably bizarre behavior of the doctor; no Charlie is a plant who is there to spy on the doctor and who is heard talking to someone about the doctor keeping secrets. We are supposed to feel sympathy for the doctor when he is berated for charging around like a bull in a china shop, breaking and entering private homes in complete disregard of the orders given him by police officials who are strangely his superiors, on one hand, and who on the other fail to react to his repeated overstepping. What are we supposed to think of all this? That Blake has a mental disorder? That he is autistic? That the program is written by sophomores? A different set of sophomores each week, who fail to notice the questions left open by the previous set? Are none of these things ever going to be answered?