Shows these days should come with a warning before they start. THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. If there had been such a notice before Jerry Bruckheimer's Chase, I could have turned off after five minutes. But, like an idiot, I ploughed on.Well, Jerry Bruckheimer's Chase started, as you might expect, with a chase. But there was a twist, it was through a rodeo, well if you've got to have a chase, it might as well be through a rodeo. Our hero US Marshall Annie Frost scampered around bulls and knocked over clowns to get to the perp. Then, while chocking him into unconsciousness, we learnt that her mother had died while she was eight. J.B.'s Chase is that kind of show, we learn everything while things are moving at a hundred miles an hour.
The programme centres around a group of dogged, happy in each others company, US Marshals. We got to know the ins and outs as they explained them to new boy, Desperate Housewives, Jesse Metcalfe. They did that annoying Criminal Minds thing where each character utters a sentence and the next character takes it up without a pause. Does that ever happen in real life? I'd love to see it. Anyway Jerry Bruckheimer's Chase would love to be Criminal Minds, but it just doesn't have the Poe faced intensity, or quality for that matter. The daffy pilot episode had our intrepid heroes chasing a mad fugitive who was obsessed with the music of country singer Waylon Jennings, I kid you not. Which prompted Annie to sing a Waylon song down the line to the killer. It was such a mad scene that even Leslie Nielsen would have struggled to keep a straight face. At times the dialogue was so bad it made Steven Seagal's True Justice look like The Shield. So all we really got was the squad bashing in doors and shouting 'clear', while being two steps behind their, none too bright, quarry. In fact, you got the feeling these idiots couldn't catch chlamydia in Magaluf.
The show ended dull and predictable. They got their man, more through luck than skill, and celebrated the fact in a bar, all big pals. A little earlier we had learnt, between verses of Waylon Jennings, that Annie's 'daddy' hadn't been there for her when she was growing up. Which makes me guess that, at some point, Annie would be chasing her 'daddy'. Perhaps as a cliffhanger to a second season that never came.
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