Not two and a half. One of those series that you forget immediately after watching, it is so no: neither the eye nor the brain to catch on.
In the center of the plot is a unit consisting of three police officers and one former drug addict and thief, working undercover. In the second part, they are joined by a lady from the FBI, the object of romantic dreams of Carter Shaw, the head of this group. There is no greater certainty in all this than in the love of the wolf for the sheep. Rather, (for each crime, one episode) we are shown how an unsinkable squad deals with bad guys. Moreover, the viewer gets the impression that the criminal world is divided into autonomous groups, completely isolated from each other. No one will recognize our scoundrels, although every day they infiltrate various gangs under different names. Blind-deaf-mute enemies of law and order can not solve cunning mysteries, which the viewer copes with in 5 minutes. It’s all quite primitive, but in the first season it went nowhere. In the second, there are problems with the characters. If at first Carter Shaw, sullen and unsociable, refuses to even have dinner with a girl, then in season 2 he instantly falls in love with his immediate boss, a kind of grenadier grandmother, and almost for the first time in the series lays it on the table. What causes this metamorphosis? What took the unsociable chief of the special brigade so captive? A mystery.
The same reliability in the appearance of the heroes. Extremely neglected (according to the script) Carter, who sleeps in the office and does not pay attention to his appearance, carefully groomed bristles and equally carefully disheveled hair; approximately the same story with his subordinate Ty, a metrosexual black handsome man who manages to remain so in all chases, shootouts, skating in the mud and other situations associated with the difficult work of cops.
Sometimes it happens that the actors draw a frankly weak plot canvas, but not here. Very average cast. Probably more than me, connoisseurs of the series will find famous names among those who lit up here. I only found a couple of familiar faces appearing in secondary roles in the same mid-level soap. Of course, the main bet was made on Dylan McDermott, an actor quite famous, mostly from the same series. But, frankly, he did not shine anything special here or in his other works. Averagely so, quite professional, but not especially "warms".
In the end, it's a good thing we stopped. There's not much to see. Everything is contrived, secondary and budgetary: both heroes and situations. You won't lose anything if you don't look. There are a lot of tapes much more entertaining. And leave this one until you revisit everything, and there's nothing left but Undercover.
