The Evidence

I just watched the pilot episode of The Evidence, A lame cop show that supposedly takes place in San Francisco. After watching the show, I've learned the following things:

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  The Trans-America building is the only noteworthy building in San Francisco. If we don't see images of the Trans-America building every five minutes, the audience will forget that the show is filmed in San Francisco.


• Detectives in San Francisco are actually called "inspectors"


• Inspectors spend less than half of their time actually investigating crime. The rest of the time they spend having flashbacks, buying rings, and flirting with female police.


• The audience of cop-shows are very stupid, and can't figure anything out without being specifically told.


• Inspectors spend all of their investigation time in tourist spots that everyone recognizes, such as Castro St, the Embarcadero, and Chinatown.


• A police inspector makes over a million dollars a year, since that's what it would cost to have a house in San Francisco with a front lawn.


• Red's Javahouse, the place where I park my car, is actually a big cop-hangout and not a sleezy dive that no one would ever go to.


• Slashing someone with a hunting knife can take your finger off.


• When two Inspectors are executing an arrest warrent on a murder suspect, they don't go in with ANY backup, and they don't bother to cover the back exits. They also knock and give the suspect plenty of time to escape through the back exit which they didn't think to cover.

After spending many years watching high calibar police-drama's such as NYPD Blue, Law and Order, and The Shield, I have to say that this is one of the dullest and most unrealistic shows I've ever seen. I realize that all TV shows have an element of fantasy, but come on, do they think we're really that stupid?

This show has no likeable characters, every main character is one-dimensional and emotionless, and the audience doesn't have to do any thinking at all. Boring!