This is the first review I've written, so apologies for that.
New Tricks is in many ways a formula procedural drama/comedy. Much seems familiar about it, though I've never seen anything quite like it. The premise is good, the characters entertainingly eccentric. But there is something about the show that has had me come back for every episode up to this one. And I expect I'll watch the rest.
Having previously lost the characters of Jack Halford and Brian Lane, naturally enough, as this is now Season 10, we lose Sandra Pullman, too.
The story is dark, with little comic relief, involving a serial killer and his unlikely accomplices. The arrangement is unusual (though not incredible), and the setup good: It is a case related to Sandra's first case as a DC.
The important thing about this episode is the acknowledgment of the relationship between Sandra and Gerry. Gerry has been an often exasperating sort, pigheaded but also effective. And an old school copper, which can mean some shaky things. Sandra realizes that her departure will hit him the hardest, and, of course, it does. But the show makes us believe what happens, and how, between these two. Gerry can usually be counted on, in the end, to do the right thing. And while Danny and Steve are more clever, in the classic sense, than Gerry, it is Gerry who has the claim on the audience's hearts, and on Sandra's, too.
So, I suppose the episode, and myself for all that, can be called maudlin in the end. But we have become intimate with these two, and at this point we really do care what happens to them. It's a sad parting, but an adult one, and a loving one.
New Tricks is in many ways a formula procedural drama/comedy. Much seems familiar about it, though I've never seen anything quite like it. The premise is good, the characters entertainingly eccentric. But there is something about the show that has had me come back for every episode up to this one. And I expect I'll watch the rest.
Having previously lost the characters of Jack Halford and Brian Lane, naturally enough, as this is now Season 10, we lose Sandra Pullman, too.
The story is dark, with little comic relief, involving a serial killer and his unlikely accomplices. The arrangement is unusual (though not incredible), and the setup good: It is a case related to Sandra's first case as a DC.
The important thing about this episode is the acknowledgment of the relationship between Sandra and Gerry. Gerry has been an often exasperating sort, pigheaded but also effective. And an old school copper, which can mean some shaky things. Sandra realizes that her departure will hit him the hardest, and, of course, it does. But the show makes us believe what happens, and how, between these two. Gerry can usually be counted on, in the end, to do the right thing. And while Danny and Steve are more clever, in the classic sense, than Gerry, it is Gerry who has the claim on the audience's hearts, and on Sandra's, too.
So, I suppose the episode, and myself for all that, can be called maudlin in the end. But we have become intimate with these two, and at this point we really do care what happens to them. It's a sad parting, but an adult one, and a loving one.
