***SPOILERS*** This one ain't too bad. I've read other reviews, and I have to keep reminding myself that people who watch these things (such as myself), REALLY want to be entertained. They are used to shootouts, car chases, super-villians, etc... The truth is almost always something more mundane. The people who do the dastardly things to each other that detectives then have to sort out and solve, are messy, sad, and in the end, the result of normal, everyday problems that get out of control. This series merely reviews those criminal experiences, and the problems that the police have to work through to bring the individual (s) to justice. I believe that Patterson lent his name to the project to see if people would watch it, and of course, sell products. Those are things that television does by necessity. In these cases, the acting is good, the people are normal appearing, and their day to day live are typically uneventful. Once in a while there is a high profile case. Mostly, though it is sad, and dull. That's reality, folks. I give it a 9.