First and foremost there’s Kazinsky’s brusque brawniness–he would have been a huge B-movie star in the ’70s–that he undercuts with a sly thrill at his new physical presence. There’s a belabored Frankenstein metaphor inherent in this convoluted mass of characters, genres, and plots, but let’s leave underlining the obvious to “Second Chance” and instead focus on the series’ strange charms. While Jimmy and Mary work together to solve crimes!Īlso Read: 'Making a Murderer': Why Steven Avery Says Juror Was Out to Get Him
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Then there’s the sci-fi series on which a petulant son finds himself confronted by the back-from-the-dead-and-way-hotter-than-before father he was happy to say goodbye to–and they grudgingly solve crimes together! Or there’s the show about a tech empire run by strange twins who speak their own language–except Mary (Dilshad Vadsaria) is slowly dying and her brilliant brother Otto (Adhir Kalyan) can’t bear the thought of losing her, so he finds a way to possibly save her: Resuscitating the corpse of aged, disgraced Sheriff Jimmy Pritchard and harvesting his blood. On the one hand, it’s an odd-couple cop show on which by-the-book FBI agent Duval Pritchard ( Tim DeKay, reprising most of his “White Collar” performance) grudgingly works with renegade freelancer Jimmy Pritchard (Rob Kazinsky). One of many series this year to go through multiple title changes (“The Frankenstein Code,” “Lookinglass”) and see its series order reduced even before premiering, “Second Chance” feels like a show that doesn’t know what to call itself.
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Do TV networks think that we can’t suss out the procedural bones to dramas draped in a high concept? Do they think dressing up the case-of-the-week format with future technologies and outlandish setups will make us consider the show something other than yet another detective series? These are the weighty questions you will find yourself contemplating as you zone out of Fox’s “Second Chance.”
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