Karen Sisco

After having seen and greatly enjoyed Carla Gugino in various limited parts in relatively minor movies, I was overjoyed to see that she finally got some real recognition and was given her own TV show. And when I saw it, I wasn't disappointed. The show is smart, attractive and funny; clearly aimed at a fairly youthful, intelligent and predominantly male demographic. In short, it's everything a show should be in order to succeed. Only, for some inscrutable reason, it failed. What a great pity. What's wrong with audiences today? In a just world, this show would have rocketed Carla to true stardom.

For me, being a huge Carla Gugino fan, watching this show is pure joy. The writers and/or producers clearly adore Carla as much as I do, and put her squarely in the limelight, both in terms of loving camera angles, story and dialog. For someone of Carla's talents and charms, it's long overdue. At least with these 10 episodes, a devoted fan of Carla Gugino can get his fix, losing himself in a witty and charismatic action show captained by one of the dreamiest actresses currently working. What more can anyone ask?

I just CANNOT believe that they canceled this show *sigh* Just goes to show that television studios (and, just maybe, television audiences) do not know entertainment.... Instead of shows like this, we get stuck with yet more "reality TV" drivel like fear factor, American idol, survivor, etc etc ad nauseum... PLEASE make it stop! The executives don't know good television, the general public does not seem to recognize talented scripts, plots, excellent acting, etc. Does any one actually realize how many variations of CSI, or some take-off, spin-off what have you there are? Try to go 2 days without seeing it on the TV! Good luck! Everything is the same, same stories, same plots, we need something fresh, different, exciting....

What more could I ask for - not only is this show witty, exciting, and well directed, it also has a remarkably hot woman playing the lead role, pushing Enterprise's T'pol off to the side for the finest lady on network TV.

Every episode is really a gem, however two so far have stood out as really kickass (the second episode, the one with the two brothers who like Leonard Skinnard, and the one about the guy who keeps breaking out of prison to get back with his stripper girlfriend). Even though Elmore Leonard did little more for the series than invent the main character, the unique touches that are present in every Leonard book are present here. I pray to God this show makes it, because it beats the hell out of most everything else on TV today.

As others have noted in these comments why is it that studio execs keep putting reality show dreck on? I have never watched survivor, the bachelor or any other "reality" show drivel. Since really those shows are for the average person to have their 15 minutes of fame and since most of them are self centered idiots (at least that is what the commercials show them as) why would a rational, thinking person ever watch it. If you want to watch a reality show watch The Soup and you will get the best parts of it anyway. This show was very well put together and if you had watched the Jennifer Lopez/George Clooney vehicle Out of Sight you would have gotten a little bit of background on her character. This could have been an excellent series. This and Ms Gugino's other series Threshold (way, way better than Invasion even though that has William Fichter)I don't get it. Two series that she has been in and both well done and what do the networks do? Please someone slap them for those of us that would like a little bit of thinking behind out entertainment.

This was a very hard to find Carla Gugino show. I could not find this show to stream or release on disc or VHS. I was lucky enough to buy a homemade DVD copy of this show off someone on EBay who recorded it back in 2003 off their TiVo. Spent a pretty $50 for it....later I found that this series is available to view on the "internet archives" (if anyone is wanting to watch this).

After watching the show, I found it a little vanilla and bland. If it wasn't for Carla Gugino I'm not sure I'd watch it the first time. I know I won't watch it a second time. Carla looks great and any fan of hers can appreciate her. But the writing, dialogue and mechanics of police, investigations and Marshalls are unrealistic. For example, police do not make outlines of bodies at crime scenes.

Also, why is her father called "Marshall sisco"? I mean, does he not have a first name or is his name Marshall? If he's no longer a Marshall, why go by Marshall? A bit confusing but the father daughter relationship was cute.

And while I loved Carla gugino, I'm not sure I was a fan of the character Karen Sisco (ignoring that Karen is now a slur, basically). I'm not a fan how the writers always gave her a new boyfriend she was romantic with each episode! Can't we have a female character not being romantically involved with men and being a horn-dog? Kinda lost respect for her and yeah it added filler but yawn.

For a Carla gugino show I recommend leopard skin, threshold, wayward pines, haunting of hill house, etc. This show was not worth $50 and not worth searching for.