This is going to be short, but I promise you it won’t be sweet. Cold Case, what are you doing? Trust me, I’m a crime and police procedural buff. I like watching a good cop show. The problem is (and I’ve mentioned it before) — I watch this show for an entirely different take on the cop show genre! I don’t want lukewarm cases from a year ago. But even more getting my gruff up — I don’t want shows set in the present revolving around the characters!
Oh, it’s fine to have little character tidbits even though I really don’t want to know all that much about the characters lives outside the police department. I realize that without little character bits and pieces of their lives, they’re kind of robo-cops. I understand that we have to get to “know” them.
But what I don’t understand is why tonight’s show totally deviated from the basic premise of the series. Will Jeffries, played by Thom Barry, got shot. Um … the closest we got to a cold case was when he had a flashback to his youth and some old Temptations songs.
That is not why I watch this show. I watch it for the different decades, the fashions, the music of the case era in addition to comparing how well they cast the present and past characters. I don’t watch the show for drama about the cops in present day. Knock it off, Cold Case. I mean it. I could be watching The Celebrity Apprentice, y’know!
Clacked by Jackie Schnoop 
on Mar 16, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
