King & Maxwell

Great show, love the lead characters Kate and Sean as well as Edgar. Also like the continuation of exploring the past with Sean and Edgar continuing to blossom in role. Also really like the humor with mystery. Jon Tenney is so likable,strong and sexy. Each episode has been consistently interesting, with a surprise in each one. Not sure where going with delving into the shooting that caused him to leave Secret Service but would be great to see the mystery solved and his continuation as Private Eye. 10 lines of text for a review is a lot for me. Usually like to use quick comments of reaction rather than going deep into explanations of why I like something. I like this show, think the critics are wrong in panning it and look forward to watching this each week, along with Major Crimes. Like the Closer as well and Major Crimes is great follow up.

Jon Tenney fresh from being an FBI agent and married to Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer and Rebecca Romjin fresh from being married to John Stamos in real life co-star in a new television King&Maxwell. The two are former Secret Service agents who had two tragedies break on them while on the job. Now they're private detectives and in addition Tenney is a lawyer.

Being both a PI and an attorney opens up a whole lot of story possibilities. Tenney can be a lawyer and he can have Romjin do his investigating and occasionally lend her a hand. On The Closer Tenney was a recovering alcoholic and he continues in the same guise here.

Romjin and Tenney looked comfortable working together. Working out of WAshington, DC also opens up all kinds of possibilities for political intrigue in their cases as well.

I hope the show finds an audience.

Sadly I just learned that King & Maxwell was cancelled. I thought it was a great adaptation of Baldacci's books. Edgar being my favorite character portrayed wonderfully by Ryan Hurst. Jon Tenney has never disappointed and I felt Rebecca Romijn worked well with Tenney. The comic banter is done quite well and we were just getting to see inner personalities develop. The writing is well done and set choices appropriate. Perhaps if we viewers are lucky someone else will pick it up. We are being inundated with idiotic reality shows like the new Chrisley show, its embarrassing to watch people make fools of themselves. THere are some pretty dumb fictional shows as well. What audience are they polling because no one ever asks me or anyone I know, and I hear people complain all the time about the volume of intelligence insulting reality shows.

Just watched all the episodes and we loved it. We read all of Baldacci's books and this was very close to what I pictured when reading. To bad this was cancelled while other series survive. This is comparable in quality with Bones which as been on air for what.. ten years? The idea of keeping Edgar in the story and making him a permanent fixture was brilliant. Ryan Hurst was unbelievable and his unexpected teaming up with Benny (I don't recall reading about her in the books, nor Rigby and Carter for that matter) was charming and very entertaining.

Bring it back!!

It's probably unfair to be comparing a series that's 8 episodes old with one that's past the ton, but it's probably inevitable considering its niche.

So far, as a crime comedy series, it seems nice and perky. Nothing wildly challenging; but then again it doesn't take itself too seriously, so it would be churlish to be super picky - although the writers do sometimes go overboard with the "cutesy" dialogue.

The leads are good - it's nice to see Jon Tenney in a lead role, and Rebecca Romijn is a pleasant surprise as the feisty, competitive Mrs-Peel-for-the-2010s - but the real standouts are the satellite characters of Edgar (Ryan Hurst) and Benny (Dichen Lachmann). I certainly hope they're developed more.

I also like the gradually emerging subplot of the mystery behind the assassination that got Sean kicked out of the SS (interesting initials those - and actually used that way in the program); but I hope they add a bit more depth to our heroes, and maybe explore the possibilities of "enhanced friendship" between Sean and Michelle.

So: Not bad - I've certainly seen worse - but not quite in 'Castle' territory yet.

7/10 right now; and I hope it gets better, because I'll be watching.