Tag: Ronin Gibbons
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Season/Series Finale — The Chicago Code, “Mike Royko’s Revenge”
I’ll be perfectly honest with you dear readers: I stopped watching The Chicago Code three or four weeks ago. With the end of the semester and various other things weighing me down, I had to free up some time and ditch Code was one of the things that helped me do that. I let episodes…
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Surveillance Spring Stumping: Why FOX should renew The Chicago Code
It’s May, which means we’re very close to the network upfronts. Choices about which series live and which series die are probably being made right now by all the major networks. This of course means it’s time for fans and critics to start stumping for their favorite series stuck on the bubble between cancellation and…
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The Chicago Code, “St. Valentine’s Day”
This review is going to be short, not a lot of time this afternoon. If The Chicago Code is going to succeed in the long-term, it has to do one of two things: A.) Either make Delroy Lindo’s Gibbons the most intelligent and cunning corrupt politician of all-time (and thus impossible to catch) or B.)…
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The Chicago Code, “Wild Onions”
Heat wave episodes are fun. It’s a go-to gimmick for television series, but one of the better ones. “The heat makes people do crazy things!” is an easy, but effective premise to start building an episode around, especially on a police drama that requires people to do crazy things on a weekly basis. The Chicago…
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The Chicago Code, “The Gold Coin Kid”
I thought this was going to a 200-word blurb before class, but it ended up being much longer. First of all, I really like this series. A lot. I think that it still has some kinks to work out, but I’m really hoping that FOX sees the value and is willing to let it continue…
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The Chicago Code, “Cabrini-Green”
The Chicago Code is so close to becoming a really great television series, but every week there are some random shortcuts or plot issues that bring individual episodes down just enough to annoy or frustrate me. This week’s effort, “Cabrini-Green,” is absolutely no different. There is so much to like about Code. I think all…
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The Chicago Code, “Hog Butcher”
As I and other, real critics like to talk about, second episodes are tricky, especially for series’ with a lot going on. Pilots are intended to hook the viewers in with great characters, big moments and a nice, established world, but when the second episode rolls around, it’s time to really think about what the…
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Series Premiere — The Chicago Code, “Pilot”
Because Shawn Ryan’s new police drama on FOX was up for the network’s fall schedule last spring, it feels like we’ve been talking about and waiting for The Chicago Code (formerly Ride-Along) for a very long time and the anticipation has been building. This has probably only been compounded by the fact that Shawn Ryan’s other…
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