Terriers

Here's one of the most offbeat new shows of the new season. Also one of the best. [13 Sep 2010, p.48]

Terriers is a wonderfully well-conceived, well-made and well-played series about a pair of soft-boiled downmarket private detectives in over their heads in San Diego.

Terriers has license to entertain, and this fall, that's saying something.

Logue and Raymond-James have enough chemistry that I might have been content to wander behind them, at least for a while, as they poked their noses into one small and ill-conceived job after another.

Every so often, a show arrives and instantly feels lived-in, like a comfortable old couch with slight depressions in all the right places. FX's Terriers is one of those shows, beautifully torn and frayed from the get-go.

Logue and Raymond-James are, straight out of the gate, the two most believable and funny buddies you'll see on the screen.

It's lackadaisical, weary, bland and off-center.