A sparkling script and Edie Falco as a lesbian police chief can’t save a cop drama with the kind of narrative arc shows have been rolling out since Hill Street Blues
‘I’m a cop. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman,” says Abigail “Tommy” Thomas in her first speech as Los Angeles’ first female police chief. If she had a better speechwriter, she would have leaned forward and added: “Can you dig it?”
Because she is played by Edie Falco, we can dig it. The reserves of fondness Falco built up over decades playing a mobster’s wife in The Sopranos, a double-shifting single mother prison guard in Oz, and the eponymous Nurse Jackie can be spent here to save a show that hits the Alibi channel at, to put it mildly, this unpropitious moment.
