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The Unusuals Pilot ReviewSATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2009 LEAVE A COMMENT

After receiving Christian Shepherd’s supernatural send-off beneath an exploding freighter, HaroldPerrineau resurfaces from Michael Dawson’s watery grave as Leo Banks, a superstitious NYPDdetective who always dons a bullet-proof vest. “I’m here to die” becomes “I fear to die”. Nice choice,Harold.

The former LOST regular only plays one of the many peculiar characters on The Unusuals. In the pilot,we follow the story of Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn), a young detective with a delinquent rich girlpast who does undercover work posing as a prostitute. When reassigned to investigate the death of asupposed crooked cop Burt Kowalski, she teams up with the deceased officer’s old partner JasonWalsh (Jeremy Renner) and meets the rest of the police unit, including the snarky, pretentious, andoverly religious. As they crack Kowalski’s case, she learns that he too was a bit unusual. He picked upprostitutes and told his wife about it, he kept secret files on all the other detectives, and he reached outto troubled youth to encourage them to seek a better life. Things went sour with one teen, andKowalski ended up dead by his hands.

Meanwhile, Banks and his partner Eric Delahoy (AdamGoldberg) track down a cat killer and patronize their primesuspect until he confesses to the crime. It made for someenjoyable comic relief. Delahoy was interesting; recentlydiagnosed with a brain tumor and given 6 months to live,he foils Banks by putting himself in life-threateningsituations and miraculously comes out alive.

The previews don’t lie: this is not your ordinary cop show.The detectives do odd things and they deal with oddcases, making the pilot very inventive and refreshing.Nice blend of comedy and drama, creative storyline,interesting characters. The Unusuals is off to a good start.

-AAC Puryear

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thanks for this aac, great breakdown of the show, i'll have to check it out!

Melissa said:

i really enjoyed this-- to the point and interesting, ABC is lucky to have you review their show

Brian said:

agreed with the other commenters-- very digestible here aac, thank you!

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