Why didn't this show attract more viewers? Well-written and superbly acted, this show, one would think, should have been a slam dunk. I fell in love with it after seeing just one episode. Problem was I waited until there was nothing else on before I watched the first one. Well, looking back on my own experience I'm guessing I ignored the show for weeks based on a personal bias against small dogs and sitcoms, both of which are implied in the title of this series. It's about neither, nor are they the main reasons it crashed and burned.
The biggest flaw the show had that I could see was its scrunge factor. My GF couldn't get past it, and I have to admit I had to suspend disbelief whenever these two protagonists coupled up with smart, sexy women, or followed the story line that one of them, an unshaven and untrimmed reformed drunk and ex-cop who had been kicked off the dept. was previously married to a responsibly-minded goddess; or the other main character, a reformed B&E artist, wasn't in the least bit reformed. Viewers want to identify with the characters... Doh!
So after all of that, what was good about the show? Every single character was real. Their emotions were real. Yeah, sure. No, true that.
In all sincerity this show was a tribute to the triune brain - about how the leftover parts of our reptilian brains can trick us into following what we know is def the wrong path, or cloud our judgment and cause us to react instead of following the logical thinking man's parts of our brains and doing the right thing. What differentiated these guys from boilerplate PI shows (which BTW is what these guys were, PIs, unlicensed naturally) is they were smart enough to recognize what was happening but powerless to suppress their feelings, sort of like this review. Well worth watching the reruns. Clean these guys up, change the title and bring them back, please?
The biggest flaw the show had that I could see was its scrunge factor. My GF couldn't get past it, and I have to admit I had to suspend disbelief whenever these two protagonists coupled up with smart, sexy women, or followed the story line that one of them, an unshaven and untrimmed reformed drunk and ex-cop who had been kicked off the dept. was previously married to a responsibly-minded goddess; or the other main character, a reformed B&E artist, wasn't in the least bit reformed. Viewers want to identify with the characters... Doh!
So after all of that, what was good about the show? Every single character was real. Their emotions were real. Yeah, sure. No, true that.
In all sincerity this show was a tribute to the triune brain - about how the leftover parts of our reptilian brains can trick us into following what we know is def the wrong path, or cloud our judgment and cause us to react instead of following the logical thinking man's parts of our brains and doing the right thing. What differentiated these guys from boilerplate PI shows (which BTW is what these guys were, PIs, unlicensed naturally) is they were smart enough to recognize what was happening but powerless to suppress their feelings, sort of like this review. Well worth watching the reruns. Clean these guys up, change the title and bring them back, please?