SonicStuart
FOX just never learns when it comes to good shows, K-Ville joins the roster of good shows that FOX cancels after 1 or 2 seasons. K-Ville is a cop show that takes place two years after Hurricane Katrina and the select few of officers that have remained on the New Orleans Police Department. Marlin Boulet (Anthony Anderson) is a veteran of the NOPD's Action Felony Squad and gets stranded by his old partner in the storm two years ago, Marlin is still attempted to keep some little bit of order to all the chaos that has happened and remains faithful to the city of New Orleans. He meets a new guy named Trevor Cobb (Cole Hauser) who becomes his new partner but has ulterior motives than Marlin Boulet even though Trevor Cobb had a pretty bad criminal past. So Marlin Boulet and Trevor Cobb work together in order to bring justice back into New Orleans as the city continues to get back on it's feet. The show has great plots, Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser make a great team! FOX just can't seem to even open their eyes and realize that they are wasting good shows like this and keeping some crappy reality shows like "Kitchen Nightmares" and "The Moment of Truth". Overall, good show that FOX should have kept!
baronvan
At first I couldn't wait to see the pilot....now that i've seen it I just can say that this show didn't reach the point which I expected. Some scenes are voluntarily cut; actors are running then in about 3 second they're chasing bad guys by car without transition. What's wrong with the director? Was he lazy enough to not film some parts? By the way, scenario is simply too predictable...I found the mystery of the crime in about 15 minutes: find the problem!!! So if you want to make your own point of view, check this show...Whereas I didn't say lot of great things about it, I really love Anthony Anderson (The Shield was is best performance for my part) and that's why I rated this show 5 stars unstead of 3.
Aaron Holbritter
So, here it is, the first new show of the new season, from the Fox Network. This new crime series is as tried and true a concept as the television landscape has ever seen. A buddy cop show. How far back does this premise go? "K-ville", apparently a nickname for the New Orleans after Katrina, uses the city, and its continued efforts to recover from that awful hurricane as the backdrop for this crime drama featuring Ninth Ward native Marlin Boulet (Anthony Anderson), and recently discharged soldier having served in Afghanistan and new guy on the force Trevor Kobb (Cole Hauser).Partnered for the first time since his previous partner, Charlie, took a walk at the height of the rescue efforts, Marlin's a little bit rogue. Trevor arrives with all the fanfare of bottle opening, and the two start rubbing the rough edges against one another.The key to these buddy cop shows, what makes them work, is the chemistry between the two leads. Here, admittedly only the pilot (but if you can't establish it then, you've waited to long) there's next to none. Anderson, a gifted comedic actor, plays this one bone straight. He's clearly seen too much devastation to have a sense of humor anymore, and plays it like his character is the only person in New Orleans who is taking rebuilding seriously. Hauser, on the other hand, doesn't say or do much of anything, and the big "reveal" about his character's not so boy-scout past seems like a last ditch attempt to give the character depth."K-ville" could have done for police dramas what "Rescue Me" did for fire and rescue dramas. Dropping us into a post catastrophe, PTSD infected world was compelling and thought provoking when Denis Leary did it with NYC Firefighters post 9/11. Leary and his co-producers knew that the show had to be funny sometimes, to counteract the maudlin. There's nothing but a lot of maudlin in K-ville. Here, the concept just feels like another gimmick, added onto a gimmick and draped with a cliché.The throwaway plot of the pilot is equally concerning, as the mystery is far-fetched, shallowly conceived, and poorly executed. The only real upside to this show seems to be that each episode will be self sustaining, which means, if it wants to, and it should want to, it can re-invent itself over the next couple of episodes, and maybe start to get it right. Unfortunately, I've already decided not to tune in again."K-ville" appears Mondays on the Fox Network.
dennis_7410
The fights, the action, drama. K-Ville was a great premiere. Set in NOLA after the storm Marlin(Anderson) is trying to get his life, and more importantly a city back to together. Cole Hauser and the others provide great cast support. The special effects were real. The first pilot story was about, a company that was sent to protect NOLA after them storm. Turn out they were buying the houses so the displaced would not come back home. Marlin and Trevor go to investigate this and get turned back every time. That's when the fights and action happen. A car chase followed by a show down on the docks ended a great story. This show is almost perfect. I have never seen a show start as well since the Fresh Prince, Cosby or the Wayans Bros. 10 out of 10
