What makes this impossible is very poor writing. I initially thought this the province of the USA. In this I was influenced by CASTLE. What should have been the greatest series of all time turned into a complete joke.
Just a few things to highlight very poor and lazy writing.
- A mere detective is promoted to Captain. She leapfrogs every Sergeant and Lieutenant in New York
- This detective resigned from the NYPD to pursue a career in a National Security agency ( which was given not one but THREE different names ).
- She was given a hefty suspension for going rogue only three years hence. She was sacked by the same national security agency.
- On her first day as Captain she does not turn up to work but no-one does a thing.
- A hit squad who has killed all of the people Beckett worked with at the said Agency fall for the oldest trick in the game broken glass!
however to my horror I have recently found a few british series where the writing are equally poor.
Bancroft. Here we have a detective murdering people tampering with evidence. Even when her story constantly changes ( always a problem) her Boss still does nothing.I could not help but compare with Line of Duty ( season 4) where there are some similarities but done very well.
The Split was simply terrible. Here a woman rails against her father who left the family. Yet this woman had sex with a man on the night BEFORE her wedding. It ends with her continuing this adulterous affair despite her waxing lyrical against her husband who had done the same. Indeed the only consistent theme of this series was that everyone lied.
What is the common denominator here.
Firstly the writing needs to be as accurate as possible and thus true to life. When poetic licence is used it must be made explicit.
Secondly in a series the writers must be cognisant of what has occurred in previous programs.
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