Carter, the show about an actor who plays a detective who becomes one in real life in his hometown, is back on WGN American tonight at 10p.
Now that Carter (Jerry O’Connell) has decided to give up his show, he is ready to be a PI fulltime. He even places ads on bus benches. Guess what they work because he already has his first client.
The older man’s wife has gone missing, and he asks Carter to find her. When he goes to his friend, Sam (Sydney Poitier Heartsong), who is a detective, she tells him that man is a conspiracy therapist, and the force doesn’t believe him. That is until Carter, and their other friend Dave (Kristian Bruun) find the woman’s car, and it looks like she has been kidnapped.
Now that they believe something has happened to the wife, they arrest her husband for the crime. Carter has to prove that his client is innocent, so he will go undercover to do it. Be prepared to see him in many different costumes tonight like an old man, Alfalfa all grown up and woman in a nightgown.
If solving cases was not enough for him to handle, he has other pressures to deal with too. He has feelings for his best friend Sam and doesn’t know how to tell her. There is a new police chief (Lyriq Bent) in town from NYC, and he is scary. Finally, he has to help Dot (Brenda Kamino), the woman who helped raise him, deal with the loss of her husband. The show pays a sweet tribute to Denis Akiyama, who died last year.
Carter reminds me of the USA detective shows when they were fun and not violent. We need more shows like it, so check it out every Monday at 10p. I promise you will love it as much as I do.
