Although it aired in the UK two years ago on Universal Channel not everyone has it so some had to wait for the DVD or for Five USA to air it this year. Even better than all the reviews you might have read. It's much more than Moonlighting, Moon Over Miami, as far as TV detective shows go. Private Eyes is more the modern version of all the film moir classics you've ever watched and the TV 'tecs in books! It's definitely one we've been waiting for a long while. Stars Jason Priestly and Cindy Sampson as the put upon owner of the Everett Detective Agency, taken over from her late father, who was also a policeman. Matt Shade (Jason Priestly) stumbles upon Angie (Cindy Sampson) when his father, Don (Barry Flatman) hires her to get to the bottom of one of how one of Matt's picks (in his career as a hockey scout) Cory, collapses on the ice at the Intercontinental Professional Hockey League Try-Outs.
Plenty of laughs, action, emotion along the way, but hopefully not much romance cos that's what always happens in such shows and they end up going downhill. We like the tension, the possibility; but not yet. Considering it's been renewed for season 4. Reminds me more of Remington Steele than any of the other shows out there. Very similar in premise with Angie having the agency, at least it was already established and she didn't need to make up a fictional male boss to get work as did Laura Holt. Yet he turned up to assume the role of Rem. Here Angie has to contend with Matt also showing up to become a part of her agency and a fellow PI; seeing it as a career transition.
Series 1 pilot saw them getting to the bottom of who was behind Matt's pick deliberately being drugged; with him still coming across those in the same profession and showing how unscrupulous fellow managers etc can be. (As if we don't already know) and how Matt is even tempted to become a top earning scout which is what he always wanted. His conscious getting the better of him at the end and to do the right thing. Nothing at all to do with Angie, but glad the decision to do the right thing turned out to be his and his alone particularly as he's putting his teenage daughter, Jules (Jordyn Negri) through an exclusive private school too.
As the title suggests this one is about how Matt's father instilled a code in him about doing the right thing in a list and how he does the same for his blind daughter, giving it to her in a Braille necklace. Being the dutiful father whilst her mother cruises her life away (and in some ways her own daughter's too.) Another star of the show is the Porsche 911T that Matt drives, as Jason said it's as old as he is - the 1969 model. Again more deja vu for me with this show and the car!!
Don't know about anyone else but I had an eerie sense of deja vu watching this, pretty certain I've seen it before, no not on TV here. Fans of Jason will love this and even if you're not a fan, it's a great harkback to PI books and this is also based on novel The Code by GB Joyce. The book differed in that the character's name was Brad Shade and his father was an actual cop, he investigated the murder. Whereas it was changed for the series. With Matt being the hockey player and Angie being the PI having the cop father. Not very good reviews for the book what do people want, blood! Don't I know how that feels. Some ranging from calling the author not good at writing PI mysteries and should stick to sports! As if they can do better, there's never any need to get personal. As I've said several times, why do books have to be perfect when in reality our own lives aren't. You don't stand there thinking what shall I say, how should I go forward in reality. It's all spontaneous typos and mistakes 'n' all. Which is why I never forgive the harshest critics when complaining about what other people write, something most of them will never do for themselves! Ranty much?!! ha.
Also can be seen as a harkbark to Jason's role as Brandon in Beverly Hills 90210 - a whole other lifetime ago and maybe somewhere we can see this as Brandon living the dream as a hockey player after all! I didn't think much of Cindy (sorry) in Supernatural as Dean's girlfriend and ex, Lisa. She just didn't fit in with his character. Nothing personal!! But she's great here! Yeah Kimmy Kardashian, you're great!! ha.
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