bang! bang! my baby pulled a gun on me

Title: Common Law

Release: 2012, 12 episodes and then canceled after a single season :'(

Summary:
Like its tagline: Common Law, or like marriage, just with two cops, their hair trigger tempers, and guns! Travis and Wes are partners, detective-partners to clarify just in case you were thinking about something else, who get forced into couples' therapy after Wes pulls a gun on Travis for unknown reasons. And yeah, sure, they fight crimes too, I guess. Nah, they mostly just gay all over the place.

Or, kuro has a new found love for the term 'partners'.

Commentary:
Guilty, not guilty, confession: I watched the pilot very early on, when it was first being aired, but as amusing as the idea of couples' therapy was, the cases fell so flat I dropped it just as fast. Reasonably, I wouldn't have picked it up again, given that they announced it was being cancelled. But.

Oh, the things I do for White Collar, I think this ranks one of the most ridiculous. /covers face Yes, my reasoning that I ought to try Common Law again is because Warren Kole (Wes! Our resident stick in the mud lawyer turned cop) is coming on to be Neal's handler (TEMPORARILY, because Peter is Neal's handler *for life*), I decided that I would watch the whole of Common Law in preparation for his role on the show.

(Yes, that's why. Yes, it actually made sense when I first proposed this to myself.)

And now I spent all my time just expecting the two of them to pull each other in by the lapels of their shirts and make out with all the denied frustration and sexual tension that has been boiling since for-fucking-ever. I love it okay, that's just it.

Objectively, Common Law should not be watched for their procedural cop-and-robber case by case episodes. Because the cases are not memorable or brilliant or all that interesting in general. Subjectively, I couldn't care enough when they are so married it hurts with their banter, and the less than subtle stares they throw at each other. (They are just short of throwing themselves at each other, I swear.)

Ugh, yes, I'm disgusting in love with them.

 

I mean, you two can totally get closer, like what is personal space even (via related worlds @tumblr)

Can I talk about how beautiful Michael Ealy (Travis! Our resident playboy with an army of ex-girlfriends who will gladly murder him in his sleep) is? Because oh my god, he has the prettiest blue eyes, Matt Bomer aside because you really don't want me to get into a whole other thing of why Matt has gorgeous blue eyes, you just don't. But my god am I ready for him to come back in Almost Human with Karl Urban! :D

PS: This got kind of out of hand...