Dark Blue Season Premiere

I know this is super late, and I apologize for being lazy.

Show Notes

Torture. What a great way to start it off.

I like this opening. Very DC Comics. Think Batman.

Coffee and donuts. Nice. "You guys are doing nothing for the sterotype."

"I haven't seen seven am since 1992." Oh, I wish.

Federal Bureau of Intimidation.

Jack-of-All-Crimes

All right. The murder of a Federal agent means the death penalty.

"That's a weird dude." "Yeah."

Dean is undercover on Franzine. Lt. Carter Shaw is the head guy. Okay.

"You build a case from the inside out. Get in deep."

"It's just, you know, daylight, and you're up."

"Is that Aspirin?" "Something like that."

"He's here." "Who?" "The Prince of Darkness."

"Million dollar question. Is it enough for him to flip?"

The black guy is Ty. He's married.

Did Dean snap? Come on, let's not have somebody snap. That's never cool.

This is very dramatic. A VERY dramatic show I'm getting myself into.

--Commercial Break One--

Carter is a third generation cop. Eighteen years in. Worked everything from Vice to Narcotics (Actually, those are the only two divisons you EVER hear of detectives working prior to whatever they're working now. Hmmm). Huge arrests. Disappeared three years ago and is now officially called an "Administrative Liasion."

"He should have a penetentiary named after him."

Guys like that don't fade into the twilight.

"I'm clapping because I saw forty-eight rounds before you got a kill shot. After fifty, they move you to the Fire Department."

Jaimie Allen. She lied about her past.

"I see a man looking for his next fix. I see a girl who just made her rent in the backseat of a car. I see a woman who just lost her son in a drive-by. I see everything that needs to be fixed."

A special unit. Deep cover. All about perception. More accurate, deception.

"I'm not worried about when you'll come home. I'm worried about who you'll be when you do."

Ty speaks Spanish!

Dead, or, worse, arrested.

Florida is like death? Hey!

"You don't just send in a resume to Franzine. HE picks YOU."

Looks like an alias the FBI would do.

Education probably means prison.

"Don't think about the job. Think about life the day after the job... Just think about the money."

Gina?

"They either stupid or something else."

Holy frick on a stick! The cop shot a cop! A little lady cop! Ahhh!

Oh, she was part of the plan. Thank God.

--Commercial Break Two--

The actor who plays Dean just has that rugged undercover cop look. He's a hottie.

I knew he was going to shoot him.

Acting like he's all about the money.

"Carter, in front of the new girl?" "Come on, seriously?"

"No fear, no emotion, no nada." "Maybe he couldn't do anything."

"Blend in a little, eat something." "Who says we're on a stakeout?" "Oh, yeah, I forgot. All you Feds get your porno DVDs down here."

"Am I as interesting on paper?" "Yes."

His wife? What happened? Did she die? Sadness.

Dean doesn't want to be pulled out. He doesn't care about the FBI Agent, he doesn't care about the guy who got shot. He doesn't care about the rules.He's going to finish it.

--Commercial Break Three--

I like Jaimie's accent... At least I think it's an accent.

Two things to know about Carter- He'd to anything to protect his team, and he'd do anything to get his man.

"You spend more time as an addict or a thief or even a killer more than yourself, and you forget which parts are your cover and which parts are you. How long can you pretend to be something before you become it?"

"If Dean has turned, how far do we go to stop him?" "You shoot him, because if he has turned, he'll shoot you first."

Tracy is cool. Kind of like Garcia, I guess, but less quirky and fun, Still cool and brilliant, though.

Uh-oh. They found out Dean is a cop.

Certain scenes are reminding me of Leverage, like this one. A bank trick with parker (In this case, Jaimie), telling them where the, erm... victim of their con, is going, and with whom.

Dean is leaving with Franzine, which is bad.

Dean is shooting at the FBI. VERY bad.

Has he really turned? *sadness*

--Commercial Break Four--

Tariq sounds Arabic. Is he a terrorist? Because when stuff like this goes down, they usually are.

The FBI needed to be straight with Carter. They did all kinds of crap in his backyard and didn't tell him.

"Your backyard is the Wild West."

Ty thinks Dean flipped, but Jaimie doesn't think so.

He looked at her, knew she wasn't a teller. He didn't give her away. She has a feeling.

"You've worked with us half a day and we're supposed to trust your feelings?"

Muscular black dude. No sleeves. Tight, bulletproof vest. Yum.

Terrorist. Called it.

"I didn't sign on to be a hired killer." "For five million dollars, you'll be whatever i tell you to be."

Disappear.

"I'm a cop."

"Waste of your talent... I've seen you... You're no cop." *shoot*

Jaimie's with them.

"There's a difference between going under and stepping over."

What did Carter give Jaimie?

Gina?

Cash box?

That's his wife, isn't it. How cute. How sad.

--End--

This. Show. Is. Intense.

I am hooked. Fricking in deep.

My favorite episode is 'Purity'... Which most likely has something to do with the whole Dean/Jaimie thing.

Discussion

This is different from all of the other crime shows...

because it isn't a procedural. It's edgy. It's real. It's not about looking at the evidence. It IS about catching the perp, though. But not in the usual way. You're always wondering what we'll happen next, and how the characters will deal. You have to pay attention and figure out who the characters are and what end they're accomplishing. It's unique, and I love it. It's a new breed of Cop Show.

Intense Drama

Holy frick on a stick this show is intense. Writing show notes were hard... I had to write one or two words in the margins to get everything down. It was fast-paced, and the whole time I was worrying for their lives, their cover, and their sanity. This has happened in all three epsiodes I've watched.

Dean/Jaimie

From their first look, there was something there. I watched behind-the-scenes stuff, and Nicki Aycox said it was going to happen. And the previews for 'Purity' had me counting the days. That episode turned out awesome. There is definitely attraction there, and even caring. I can't wait how they play it out... On a series like this, where their not professional and you never know what will happen next, it's bound to be awesomesauce.