I wanted to choose carefully what my first review on this site would be.  I took some time to watch shows.  I saw the first two episodes of MURDER IN THE FIRST on TNT, I have the pilot to FROM DUCK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES, but haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it yet.

Then I randomly saw an advertisement on NBC for TAXI BROOKLYN.  Upon doing a little research, I learned that this show is made right here in New York City (rather than canada, or prague, or that one street in LA with a fire escape), so I figured that this. is. the. one.

TAXI BROOKLYN aired on June 25, 2014.  It has the Wednesday night at 10pm time slot, and airs against MOTIVE, DUCK DYNASTY, AND THE BRIDGE.

The show starts meeting Detective Caitlyn Sullivan (played by Chyler Leigh) waiting to meet a secretive man with a bad fake beard and a baseball cap.  But before you can urinate on yourself laughing at such a bad beard, Det. Sullivan takes off in pursuit of a “Bank Robber”  who is in the process getting away in an everyday NYC Yellow Taxi.  Sullivan drives like a bat out of hell (I know that because her partner Det. Eddie Esposito (played by Jose Zuniga) talks about how bad her driving is, oh and because she hits a row of garbage cans).

But alas, Sullivan pins the taxi next to a garbage truck, and the suspect gets away.  Here is where we meet Leo Romba (played by Jacky Ido), who is the taxi driver claiming that he had nothing to do with the robbery.  Leo and Sullivan strike a deal that Leo will drive Sullivan around, in exchange Sullivan will prove Leo’s innocence.  There is a fair amount of this show that is “DRIVING DET. SULLIVAN”

The story essentially becomes about 2 things:  The friendship/relationship between Det. Sullivan and Leo Romba, and Det. Sullivan’s non-sanctioned investigation into her father’s mysterious murder.  I imagine that weekly we are looking at the “Case of the Week”, peppered in with nuggets of information about Sullivan’s father’s murder, and Leo’s mysterious past.

What gets funny about this show, is the fact that a european company is producing an American Crime Procedural Drama.  You can certainly spot quite a few characters that not only are not “New Yorkers”, but may have never been to New York…  However, whats interesting, is that this show is airing on NBC.  This show feels like it should be on european television somewhere, or maybe SPIKETV.  There is something missing from the conventional procedural drama.  The show takes time to be a little cinematic in some places, almost like an old episode of THE HIGHLANDER.

Anyway, in terms of what to watch on Wednesday night,  I certainly wouldn’t try to be home for it.  I won’t set my dvr to record it.  I certainly don’t need a new show with a “tough female cop”.  But if I’m home, and its on, then i’ll definitely watch in some wonderment.