Major Crimes

A sharply written, acted and directed start that will hook fans immediately.

As before there is a nice balance between social drama and personal business, the tragic and the comic, exaggeration and authenticity.

In its first hour, at least, Major Crimes appears to be making a pretty seamless transition.

What threatens to remain a drag is the format itself, with its weekly focus on plea bargains--and, so far, weekly speeches defending the new focus.

Like The Closer, Major Crimes offers utterly predictable crime-solving.

Cases piddle away as everyone hashes out deals at a conference table. Realistic, perhaps, but quite the buzzkill. [20 Aug 2012, p.41]

This shying away from meaty storylines typifies the longstanding weakness of Major Crimes and, to a certain extent, The Closer before it.... As the team has little to do on the job, the episode fills out the time with minor whiffs of narrative.

I really like this TV show. Had drama, hope, courage, and action; everything was great until Gus showed up. His character is so needy and annoying. At least Rusty was studying, making her Mom proud, but Gus, my gosh, ruined the moment when he appeared.