If you are waiting around to see if FOX holds on to this show to start watching it, then STOP IT, you are backing up!!!! You have already missed out on what FOX early on recognized as great writing quickly becoming excellent. You are missing out on some of the most creative writing that this viewer has ever seen in prime time TV. The critics early on missed out on the whole concept of this new season hit. They were looking for a cop show that dotted the I's and crossed the T's, and had you signing up for the FBI and local law enforcement agencies. They were not reviewing the show that over five million regular viewers are watching on Tuesday nights. Now, you may well want to sign up to be a crisis negotiator somewhere after watching Matt and Emily do their jobs, but it will probably be to see if the agents are 1/4 as good looking as the leads in this show. What I am positive of is that you will tune in on Tuesdays because you want to see the twists to the plot that has been dreamed up for the next episode. It has not hurt this series to have the leads involved in a pretty hot affair off duty. They have not gone overboard with this, they are believable in their romance, partly due to the writing putting the scenes in context, and in the right places, and mostly because Livingston and Dewitt were cast perfectly in these roles. If you find that you can be hooked on the romance side of the leads in a series, then brace yourself, you are gonna fall hard the first time you watch this. This is the first I have seen of the actress Rosemarie Dewitt, and for me she is out shining Livingston a bit, and that, is extremely hard to do for this viewer. Look deeper than the early on reviews for this show. Catch the concept for this new show for yourself. If you want to be challenged in figuring out some pretty interesting hostage negotiations and watch some great relationship parallels get drawn in an hour of TV, then Standoff is your show. Send a message to the networks, send a message that you enjoy being entertained for a change on a level above fifth grade.
Standoff deserves a second, fifth, tenth and twentieth season. (Of course that will be up to Livingston and Dewitt at some point!!! But this viewer is in for the long haul.)
Standoff deserves a second, fifth, tenth and twentieth season. (Of course that will be up to Livingston and Dewitt at some point!!! But this viewer is in for the long haul.)