LIGHT SPOILERS.
The three-part "City of Passion" was at best a two-parter, and perhaps an excellent one episode, yet the ideas were extended for three full episodes and in order to do that, filler was added.
One of the most annoying things about the show was the sudden introduction of friends and cops who Hunter and McCall were supposed to have known for years and often times were regular members there in the building, yet we never saw them before. Now, normally this made for an interesting episode, but here it went far, far overboard.
Erik Estrada plays a character named Sgt. Brad Navarro, who is having extreme difficulties in his marriage. In one episode he could have been an interesting character but in this trilogy he's made into a main character and we get a heavy dose of his personal life. One might assume, watching it, that this was all because he was being set up to be a series regular (which I think would have worked) or at least being developed for a spin-off pilot, but this never happened. His life took up unnecessary parts of the work and extended it into three parts because of the bulk and we were never rewarded. He was Sgt. McGuffin, and a pretty lousy McGuffin at that.
The reward would have been so much better had this been shortened into one episode.
The three-part "City of Passion" was at best a two-parter, and perhaps an excellent one episode, yet the ideas were extended for three full episodes and in order to do that, filler was added.
One of the most annoying things about the show was the sudden introduction of friends and cops who Hunter and McCall were supposed to have known for years and often times were regular members there in the building, yet we never saw them before. Now, normally this made for an interesting episode, but here it went far, far overboard.
Erik Estrada plays a character named Sgt. Brad Navarro, who is having extreme difficulties in his marriage. In one episode he could have been an interesting character but in this trilogy he's made into a main character and we get a heavy dose of his personal life. One might assume, watching it, that this was all because he was being set up to be a series regular (which I think would have worked) or at least being developed for a spin-off pilot, but this never happened. His life took up unnecessary parts of the work and extended it into three parts because of the bulk and we were never rewarded. He was Sgt. McGuffin, and a pretty lousy McGuffin at that.
The reward would have been so much better had this been shortened into one episode.