Jerry O’Connell returns to TV tonight at 10p on WGN and Carter makes a good case for it to become your newest addiction.
Harley Carter has it all, a hit show where he plays a detective and a beautiful wife. Then it all comes crashing down on him when he walks in on his wife sleeping with someone else. When that guy shows up at his wrap party, he completely loses it.
Harley says goodbye to Hollywood and hello to his small hometown in Canada. He tries to be low key, but everyone knows the hometown celebrity. Good thing he has his two friends to help him out. Sam Shaw (Sydney Poitier Heartsong) is a detective now and she makes the mistake of bringing Harley along with her to a crime scene. He wants to see if everything he learned on the show works in real life too.
Their first case together hits close to home for them. Harley’s home actually because Koji (Denis Akiyama), one of his housekeepers and the man that helped to raise him after his mother was murdered, is now accused of murder. Now Harley and Sam along with their friend, Dave (Kristian Bruun), and Koji’s wife Dot (Brenda Kamino) are going to try to solve this case before Koji is locked up for a murder he did not commit.
Koji is a nice old man and Dot is someone you do not mess with. Her guns are like her third arm and everyone is rightfully afraid of her. But they love their Harley.
What about Harley and Sam, there is some will they or won’t they love tension between them. Thankfully, they have Dave to keep them from getting into trouble. At least in that aspect. Over the next 10 weeks, Dave and Harley will get in a lot of trouble and Sam will have to rescue them time and time again.
Yet these three childhood detectives are just as good at solving crimes now as when they were teens. Except now, they get to investigate cooler cases like a radio DJ who goes missing during a broadcast or someone finds a long-dead body on a snowmobile during their summer camping trip.
Solving cases should be enough for Harley to deal with, but his show wants him back. Will he go back to investigating fake cases or continue looking into reals ones? I cannot tell you that. What I can tell you is that you will enjoy watching this police procedural that is also about friendship. Even though they are solving crimes, it is a feel-good buddy show that will leave you smiling.
What makes it works is the chemistry between the actors, you can tell that really like each other and they play well off of one another. That is the biggest key to the success of a show. Well that, and good writing and interesting storylines. Something this show is full of. Therefore, be prepared to spend your Tuesday nights with Carter, I promise they will not let you down.
