The CW's occasionally odd summer original programming strategy continues with a British police drama that feels like a London-set take on American buddy cop stories.
is attempting is something American in origin.makes no sense at all on The CW — I could imagine it being on-brand for Fox, maybe? — but it's better than most of what the network has counted as summer acquisitions.was created by Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters along with Nick Love.
Bishop and Pike are detectives in London's National Crime Agency. They're also childhood friends, even though they couldn't be more different. Pike is the son of an NCA bigwig , raised in a stable middle-class background and following suit with a wife and kids. The mercurial Bishop was a foster kid and his relationship with girlfriend Sophia is falling apart.
Fortunately, car chases are what Nick Love does best. Peaking with a visceral sequence in the premiere, the automotive action inis jarring, jolting and kept to a reasonable scale, since even though Love may have Michael Bay/Richard Donner aspirations, he's still got a British TV budget and that limits the number of flipping automobiles and screen-filling fireballs the show is able to execute.
The chemistry and back-and-forth energy between Clarke and Walters is great. The actual dialogue in their banter is not, so either you get caught up in how hard they're working to make you believe the characters are chummy or you get bogged down in wishing that the chumminess was more clever.
The show also struggles to find anything fresh to do with Pike and Bishop's oft-exasperated boss other than "She has a dog." Lynch, who has been in attracting recent buzz surrounding poorly reported James Bond rumors, does a bit better and she and Walters have a warm domestic relationship that is doubtlessly meant to remind you of the Murtaugh marriage in
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