Prime Suspect: TV’s Best Endangered New Show

I seem to have this tendency to only like the cop shows that are too clever for network TV. I think by biggest success was Life, which at least got two seasons, but lately I keep landing on stuff like The Chicago Code that lives its entire short life on the bubble. Not a good way to enjoy a show.

Prime Suspect looks like the show that’s going to agonize me the most this fall, as it’s both the best new show I’ve seen this far and also in the most trouble. Which is probably to be expected, since it comes to us from former Friday Night Lights executive producers Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey and takes the same sort of uncompromising look at big-city policing that  FNL did with small-town football.

And for viewers trying to recover from the lack of new FNL on television (or those of you who never watched it but totally should have), this is absolutely the show for you.