TVoholic’s review of What They Saw
Here’s a review from our friends at TVoholic.com :
(S01E04) Okay so there are many new shows this season, some I knew were gonna be bad, some I was disappointed a little but didn’t have that many hopes or expectations, others I do feel disappointed by, and of course some I have happy to see they’re as good if not better as I had hoped.
So far I can tell you this, despite it flaws Life is without question the best new NBC series this year, and one the the best new series overall. I know to some i might just be yet another cop drama with a “twist”, but it really is so more than that. There’s more to it, starting with obviously Charlie Crews, who is and makes the show.
Although I’ll be honest with you, his partner Reese is growing on me every day a little more, just as Charlie is obviously growing on her. As he even pointed out, despite her denial, she did refer to him as her partner. I highly doubt she would have called him that when they started together, and that was a much more valid proof and the evolution of their relationship than the “lying for him” bit was a few episodes ago.
You really see she’s opening to him and his attitude, and respecting Crews as a “real” cop, not just one who got his badge because of a court order but who doesn’t really deserve to be there, through such little things. Like her calling him partner, or how she took away his knife last week, how she went along right away to not let Easley - the homeless suspect on their investigation - locked up in jail, or simply the way she reacted a bit later on the car, with both Charlie and Easley.
It almost looked as if she was a mother figure trying to educate her kids, and it does apply as both have lost touch with reality in their own ways. Easley lives in his own world, stealing finding stuff, not talking to anyone for months or years. Charlie, he might be back in the world but not so long ago he felt the same, and did not spoke to anyone for a long time as well.