Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Nonureva Really Surprised!

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Billie Haiduk The pilot to Brooklyn South was one of the most hyped-up of all time; what with the TV-MA rating and the promise of "intensity".Unfortunately, it completely failed to deliver on the promise as the shoot-out was poorly filmed and uninvolving. Staging in particular was much to blame for the lack of impact as the whole thing looked as fake as possible (of course the director was given an Emmy to show once again that awards care about hype, not quality).As to the death of an officer, given that we hadn't met him before it fell flat dramatically.POTENTIAL SPOILER To follow up, the writers made much to do over whether a murderer who had been shot seven times died of being kicked in the ribs. The audience's answer: to leave the show in droves, and who could blame them? Seven bullets in the body and the guy dies of a kick in the ribs? How realistic is that? Clearly the writers were thinking Albert Louima, but they forgot Louima was pretty much an innocent victim while their cop-killer was... well, a cop-killer. Hard to feel any angst over his well-deserved death.After that the show meandered, hampered by a ridiculously huge cast (thirteen main characters by the end of the show) meaning that even as the first season ended nobody cared about any of those strangers.Overall a big waste of resources.

blambert-3 I took a chance and bought this series on DVD tho I never saw it when it aired in 97'; Wow! was I pleasantly surprised. I was so bummed during the last episode cause I wanted it to keep going for more than just one season. It has the same tone and feel as NYPD Blue but I have to say I liked the cops in this show a whole lot more. The beat cop--"blue collar" feel was just much more interesting to me than the constant "heavy drama" of NYPD which is a fine show. You watch this series and you wonder how with all the schlock on TV it didn't make it. The characters are human, flawed, honorable, and compelling. It's 16 hours of great entertainment and you can pick it up fairly cheap on line.

tadloml This is the best cop show to come on TV since Law & Order. I don't why they took it off the air, I did not no it was on in 1997-98. It has one if not the best shot out scenes at the start of the series of any show that has ever came on TV. The main characters of the show are all excellent and I had never seen most of them in movies before. The Desk sergeant who they call boss is so good that he must have had some great acting lessons or been a real cop. I have watch a lot of police shows and movies in my time and this one is equal if not better than most of them, I still can not believe they took it off the air after only one year but they did the same thing to the Blue Knight and look how great that TV show was and still is, there is no accounting for taste in this world some people do not no what they are missing in good shows!

4-Kane I can still remember seeing BROOKLYN SOUTH during its only season (1997-98). It's really too bad that it didn't last any longer. The series struggled in the ratings, but it still had a chance to become a hit. If CBS had the courage to renew the series for a second season, it might have become successful.What sticks in my mind is the pilot, in part because it apparently made BROOKLYN SOUTH the first non-cable series to get the TV-MA rating (meaning Mature Audiences). But other than that, the rest of the episodes were rated TV-14 (indicating that it may not be suitable for viewers under the age of 14). The reason for the pilot's TV-MA ratings was because of the grisly shoot-out scene at the beginning, which involved a cop getting shot in the head by a sniper.The premature demise of the series was a big disappointment. I would have liked to see BROOKLYN SOUTH last five years or more. In fact, it could have been the HILL STREET BLUES of the new millennium.