Waste of time

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

After I lifetime in law enforcement, I don't like cop shows. The vast majority of them take themselves waaaay too seriously, and Hollywood displays very little understanding of how cops and police departments work. Oh, they have their technical advisors who show them how cops do tactical stuff, and they do manage to get that stuff mostly right, but it's the day to day stuff that they screw up. For example, how many times have shows depicted a detective leaving some major department and going to another city and immediately becoming a detective? Sorry folks, it just doesn't work that way. I don't care if you have a gold shield in the Big Apple, it you move to another state, you're going to go through the entire testing process all over again, go through another academy, and start out as a junior patrol cop working a beat.So I don't like cop shows. Except.....Mary Shannon has to be the most irascible, sarcastic, cynical, wry, blunt pretend LEO to ever pin on a TV badge. I love every minute she and Marshall are on the screen. Whoever writes for the show, especially the dialogue, is a genius. Practically every other line Mary utters is something that I wish I had thought of. At the same time, I identify with both her partner Marshall, and her supervisor Stan. Mary is the sort of partner and subordinate that you love to work with while simultaneously dreading whatever they're going to do next.The show is hardly a model of realism, but I've given up on Hollywood ever getting that right. I watch the show because I want to see Mary cause Stan to pull out the rest of his hair, to hear her lay into some pompous FBI agent, to tell some protectee or family member just what an idiot they are, or to cause Marshall to go off on some existential tangent. You go girl!!

I understand that John McNamara had a medical issue that ultimately cut short the 2010 season of In Plain Sight. John Romano stepped in which resulted in only 13 out of 16 episodes. "A Priest Walks Into A Bar" ended the short season with a 'cliffhanger'. I do hope that John McNamara is okay, after all, health trumps entertainment. However, I do hope that In Plain Sight will continue for several more seasons. Why? In Plain Sight is an intelligent drama with just enough wit. It also has strong characters with strong and often complex interactions - chemistry. What more could you ask for? There are relationships that sometimes hot up and there are moments of action and violence but what carries the show is the intelligent and unique story lines. I've seen a lot of law enforcement shows but do not remember any based on the mysterious workings of WITSEC. The show needs to go on. However, a word of caution, don't pull an Ocean's 12. I LOVE Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 13. I tolerate Ocean's 12 but it sacrificed a strong story and strong characters for complicated and unnecessary action clutter. I hope we will see In Plain Sight back and with that winning formula: intelligence, drama, wit, chemistry and action.

Please don't be like the networks that cancel a show after a couple of episodes. I feel that In Plain Sight keeps getting better. Give it a chance! I'm no great fan of Psych or Burn Notice but I keep watching. Some episodes I like...Some episodes I don't like. And for all of you Monk fans out there...Did you pay attention to who wrote the theme song for In Plain Sight? Jeff Beal! Credit watchers unite! In fact I came to IMDb to find out who played Horst (David Foley) in one episode of In Plain Sight. It took until that episode for the show to hook me and it was the 4th episode, I think. I'm a big time fan of Monk and not all Monk episodes are great. In Plain Sight has potential so please don't write it off too soon.

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed this show. Our comment was that it looks like Hollywood people actually can write. We prefer character driven shows and the characters are great. There is whimsy and great interplay.The plot was complex but only because more than one story overlapped and the pilot should probably have been 2 hours instead of 90 minutes to help develop some of the themes and the characters, but there was no problem in following what was happening.I hope the relationship between Mary and Raphael develops. She obviously wants more but sees herself as either not capable of such a relationship or because her job won't let her have a solid relationship.But will she develop a relationship with detective Dershowitz? That would be interesting.We look forward to the next episode.