You won't be disappointed!

Thanks for the memories!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Prime Suspect is a great TV show, and i would not complain if someone loudly proclaimed it worth of a 7/10 or 8/10; but it's not that good.The main character("Jane Timoney",Maria Bello)'s struggles with life in the force and her own humanity (trying to quit cigarettes, trying to fit in with "the boys") are close to reality than most shows but don't really make for an engrossing character, and while well acted throughout, the show lacks any real punch compared to the - now sadly cancelled - Chicago Code and other, similar police dramas - Jane's just a cop, and that's that.The show's plot lines are nothing to write home about either, with hardly any suspense, twists, or hints of unusual writing going on in the series - which could also use some stronger underlying theme than just "end of the day, back to the bar".So, great show, amusing for the easily amused, but for the more cynical - or more demanding, Prime Suspect not only fails to soar, but shows little promise for future developments. My vote: 6/10Great to pass some time, but it's OK to miss an episode or two.

I think the new Prime Suspect is watchable and has some believable aspects. Maria Bello is very good in the role -- except for the hat. (I hate the hat. Way too trendy and cliché.) But comparing this series or disliking it because it wasn't like the Helen Mirren gem does a bit of disservice to the new show and to Maria Bello. Let the new one develop it's own way. As police dramas go this one is not bad.. . I've watched many detective & police dramas: Brit, Canadian, American. Outside of Homicide: Life on the Street (and I won't even mention "The Wire") very few American police dramas have any credibility other than just pure entertainment and distraction or just for looking at pretty people with guns. I've seen four episodes of Prime Suspect so far and though I think Jane's detective counterparts are a bit over the top sexist wise since it is 2011 and I think more respect is given to women these days, that's an area that needs to be developed better. It makes the male cops look really stupid. And homicide cops are anything but. There must be more subtle ways of demonstrating sexism. Use irony instead of sarcasm & meatball comments.

I was skeptical about yet another cop show, but I decided to give the pilot a try. The cast looked interesting, at the very least. It wasn't an easy decision since it's been a busy season for new shows and there is a lot of competition for my DVR's time. I watched the pilot and knew that this was not only on my list for the season, but was possibly going on my favorites list. I really don't want to see it canceled.Even though the episodes deal with serious issues, there's this great, twisted sense of humor and camaraderie between the detectives that makes this fun to watch. And right from the beginning I couldn't help but root for Maria Bello's Jane Timoney. I want her to succeed because she's tough, passionate about her job and not afraid of getting dirty. I enjoy the other characters, too, which may be as much about the quality of the actors as the writing. They are a good fit.It's certainly worth checking out.

Briefly: She's tough and cold (and smart at her job). The men are irrational whim-worshipping wimps (and chase along behind her like barking dogs while she solves the crimes). Prime Suspect was a disappointment to me. I like Bello and was prepared to love seeing her in her own show. But several things precluded that:The writing suffers from too much naturalism: the 2 writers wanted (as they said in their interviews) to keep things really really *real*. But their idea of reality is to show most NYC cops as sophomoric, drunken, foul-mouthed, narrow-minded, anti-woman buffoons. I can't stand a one of them, and the idea of those morons working to protect citizens' rights... is a bad joke.Maria Bello's character is a cut above the sub-human males, but at a terrible price: her femininity is somehow missing. She's tougher than the men--and more important, far more intelligent and reasonable in her work. I could get to liking a woman like Jane T., if she were written *as* a woman. In her present form, I don't quite know *what* she is. Seeing her act like that makes me cringe.In another TV board, they were talking about the "empowered women" trend in new shows, and a fellow reviewer complained about all the emphasis on gender, asking "why can't we just be human beings instead of male and female?" My answer to that is apropos to Prime Suspect: We can't "just be human beings" because our gender is built in, and deeply affects our world view and sense-of-life. That, in a nutshell, is my problem with Prime Suspect, which portrays a woman who's more gruffly manly than any of the men in the show. (In fact, the men are painted as either wimps or frothing idiots -- or both.) Every second we have to spend watching the needless nagging and straining based on anti-women silliness -- is a precious second taken from the advancement of the real plot: solving crimes with tenacity, ingenuity, and guts. That gender-battle stuff bores me to death.Somewhere buried down amongst the fol-de-rol of this show is a grand potential: to portray a woman who's bold, courageous, independent in her thinking, and a very clever, intuitive cop.I wish we could have more of that. Prime Suspect could be - and should have been - great TV art. Unfortunately, as it stands now, it ain't.