New FBI Show on CBS Needs Fresher Feel, NY Critic Says
This spinoff from “Criminal Minds” illustrates the danger of a television network getting too good at something.
CBS has done so well with “police procedurals” – shows that set up a crime and walk the viewer through to its solution – that the network seems to think we viewers will just keep watching more of them forever.
At a certain point, though, we need something fresher than “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior” is providing.
The show scores up front with two A-list actors: Forest Whitaker as lead FBI agent Sam Cooper, and Janeane Garofalo as Beth Griffith, a fellow agent who among other things keeps Sam from becoming a loose cannon.
To read more click here. (The Show Airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. on CBS)
Posted: 2/15/11 at 9:17 AM under FBI, News Story.
Tags: behavioral analysis, beth griffith, CBS, criminal minds: suspect behavior, FBI, forest whitaker, janeane garafolo, sam cooper
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