Just when you thought The Closer could not get any funnier or eccentric... Brenda locking horns with Captain Raydor (#5.3), Provenza's girlfriend and the adventures of the remains of Kitty (#5.4)... This one beats them hands down. One can only wonder how many takes they blew by not being able to refrain from bursting into laughter while filming. And despite all the hilarity, there is still a legitimate police series under there. Really, how this series has (at the time of writing) a rating of only 7.6 is baffling, since it should be obvious to pretty much everyone that the only police series constantly this good is The Wire.
The makers of the Closer know when to do a mix of comedy and drama, and when lean more heavily on the other. Since the previous episode was a rather troubling look at the world we live in, raising even a logically valid question of how could there possibly be a benevolent god responsible for creating this world, a near-hysterical episode like this is needed to balance things out. This also makes it difficult to predict what tone the following episode will take - unlike in most other police series, where they are all pretty much the same. This show makes being great look so easy that one may take it granted, failing to appreciate the incredible amount of effort that goes into scripting, directing and acting master-class stuff like this. Accept no substitutes.
The makers of the Closer know when to do a mix of comedy and drama, and when lean more heavily on the other. Since the previous episode was a rather troubling look at the world we live in, raising even a logically valid question of how could there possibly be a benevolent god responsible for creating this world, a near-hysterical episode like this is needed to balance things out. This also makes it difficult to predict what tone the following episode will take - unlike in most other police series, where they are all pretty much the same. This show makes being great look so easy that one may take it granted, failing to appreciate the incredible amount of effort that goes into scripting, directing and acting master-class stuff like this. Accept no substitutes.
