I want to like this show. I've tried for two seasons to like it. It fits my Sunday gap between seasons of Dexter and the Spartacus escapades (yeah, I know Spartacus is a Friday thing but I usually get around to it on Sundays).
The Glades just bores me. The lead actor (Matt Passmore as Jim) has no charisma. He's supposed to be debonair, a charming smart ass, smooth, intelligent. Instead he comes off like an Australian fighting to maintain a fake accent. Oh, wait. He's an Australian with no American experience, struggling to maintain a fake accent. Guess that explains it. His range of emotion is nil. The asinine back story, shot his Chicago cop boss in the ass over a woman, adds nothing.
The woman he's supposed to have a hard on for (Kiele Sanchez as Callie) is utterly unimpressive and can't act a lick. I've seen her in interviews away from her "acting" and if she'd bring that same charm and ease to her character it would be so much more impressive. But she doesn't. She's stiff and wooden and dry. Can't imagine why anyone would be drawn to her character at all.
She can be hot (see below) but just doesn't bring one tiny bit of that heat to The Glades. She just looks perpetually dowdy and confused. Terrible actor.
Passmore and Sanchez have no chemistry whatsoever. The producers tried to add in a previous love interest to spice things up and although she's Saved by the Bell hot she doesn't provide the spark this show desperately needs.
The addition of Callie's estranged husband, a convict named Ray (perhaps the worst actor of the entire bunch) gives the show an opportunity to put Callie and her (horrible actor) son in some predicaments but the chemistry between Sanchez and the fool playing her husband is even less combustive than that between her and Passmore.
All that's sad because the rest of the supporting cast is pretty good. It's just the leads that drag it down.
The Glades is dead in the water, which is a real disappointment. .
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