Rizzoli and Isles
Rizzoli and Isles. What's not to like? This show is phenomenally written. It's a police drama with a little comedy, a touch of sarcasm, and a whole lot of sexy. And I'm not just talking about the leads! This whole show, originally meant to just be a ten episode summer series, had been transformed into a hit summer show with a five episode winter season. I have been a fan of Jane and Maura since Tess Gerritsen first created them.
The TV series is so much different than the books. Jane is beautiful in the TV series and a regular tomboy in the books (with Angie Harmon playing that character, it is physically impossible to make her look bad). Maura is a sexy, stylish Forensic Pathologist with an interesting choice of vocabulary and a slew of random facts but in the books, she is somewhat goth like and hard to get to know. The show and the books are so different that you can be a fan of both and not get them confused yet similar enough in the way each are written.
Janet Tamero and her writers and production team have done great things with this series in the last two seasons. The writing keeps improving and the characters keep growing from episode to episode. There are so many police procedural's on TV right know that the audience pretty much knows how exactly the crime is going to be solved and how it is going to play out. With Rizzoli and Isles, you have that element, but you also have the characters personal lives and how they have to deal with the crime personally, like Jane and Hoyt for example. This show incorporates so many elements into each episode that the hour block of time seems like five minutes.
With Rizzoli and Isles going into it's third season, I can;t wait to see how the writers portray Jane and Maura's relationship and the relationships they have with their families. This season is bound to be better than the last. I can't wait to see what happens next.
Don't forget to mark your calenders for June 5th and the season 3 premiere!
Until next time,
J. Cavanaugh
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