subject: Watch Dark Blue Online [print this page] Author: John Morham Author: John Morham
L.A.s a big place with lots of bad people. And contrary to popular belief, I dont know em all. Grrr. All grizzled face and sunglasses indoors, Carter Shaw (Dylan McDermott) isnt about to take any insinuating lip from anyonenot FBI agent Hollis (Kyle Secor) and not his own Captain Maynard (Tyrees Allen) either. No. Carter lives on his own sort of edge, determined to get all those bad people he knows and doesnt know, one episode at a time.Watch the first episode: Watch Dark blue Online As the center of Jerry Bruckheimers latest TV series, Dark Blue, Carter is predictably jaded, smart, and wounded (he tends to watch old recordings of his now dead wife, laughing and wrestling with him on a lovely green lawn). When hes called in to a hospital ICU at the start of the pilot, hes also tired. This better be good, he cautions the donuts-munching uniforms who called him. I havent seen 7am since 1992. You know, double grrr. The series look is rather grand and movie-like, dark certainly, but also saturated and vivid. Its first scenesthe lead-up to what lands that FBI agent in the hospitalshow brutal, bloody, electric-zapping torture (its not so topical as it might seem at first). The villain, a local Franzine (James Russo looking characteristically pugnacious), instructs his own men as to how to abuse the victim, until at last he cant stand it and does the deed himself. That his minions look away from the abuse suggests just how terrible it is, as do the background thunder and lightning. When Carter describes Franzine for the feds as kind of a jack of all crimes, the untouchable crook, hes hiding the fact that one of his own guys, Dean (Logan Marshall-Green), is undercover with himhes not hiding it very well, though, as Hollis and his partner (Jose Zuniga) discover this detail within minutes (how the bad guys have missed it is not so clear). You can see the episode yourself online: Watch Dark blue OnlineAbout the Author:
