Thanks to Baba for the heads up.
Bad Girls -that’s the tentative title but NBC also has Good Girls so unless it gets canceled, they’ll have to change it- is exactly the female buddy cop show you’d expect from the logline. If you’re looking for something in the vein of Lethal Weapon, well they’re your girls! There’s a lot of action, funny dialogues right in the middle of a life-and-death situations, a dose of family scenes when it comes to McKenna’s intimacy with her husband and step-kids where Syd is invited to join but don’t feel capable of because she has issues, and of course a distracting case of the week. The writers chose to deal with the kidnapping of a young boy with his mother and our investigators looking for him, betting on the maternal instinct of both the heroines and the viewers. They know exactly what they’re doing, obviously aiming at a female audience pushing all the right buttons, when Lethal Weapon is more male-friendly. It’s not manipulative. I’d say it’s fair game. But it’s also a bit too easy and expected. With actresses that are so beautiful and sexy -and characters that are written not to be threatening to other women- it’s not leaving a male audience behind, on the contrary. The potential is big.
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