Hill Street Blues - Season 3

 Well, Police Story is looking better and better the more  “TV Cop shows” I watch. Hill Street Blues is awful. Incredibly the soap opera quotient exceeds that of NY PD Blue. And:

•  Characters were dull.
•  Too many characters and subplots.
•  Too much Talk, talk, talk.
•  The lead actor is good but charmless.
•  Dennis Franz is excellent but has limited screen time.
•  Everyone else is bland or mediocre. James Skiing in particular, is laugh-out loud terrible
•  Kiel Martin’s face looks like 30 miles of bad road.

Here’s what I’ve concluded. Unless you have some great writing, I don’t want to watch a TV show about characters/actors I don’t like or find boring. You’re a flawed character with issues? Do not care. You’re dark and gritty?  Do not care.  You're a groundbreaking character? Do not care. You’re a strong woman, a black authority figure, a Gay who's the first of his kind on TV?  Do not care. You're stark and realistic? Do not care.

Be likable. Be interesting. Or be gone.