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TAKE TWO
July 5, 2018  | By David Bianculli

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

Give this new ABC series some points for honesty, at least where its title is concerned. One of the creators and one of the executive producers of ABC’s Castle (respectively, Andrew W. Marlowe and Terri Edda Miller) have teamed to create this new series, which has an eager civilian paired with, and shadowing, a veteran cop who’s less than thrilled by the arrangement. With Castle, it was a male novelist paired with a woman detective. In Take Two, it’s a Hollywood actress paired with a male detective, but otherwise it’s the same playfully antagonistic, simmeringly romantic dynamic. Eddie Cibrian plays the cop, and Rachel Bilson the actress looking to rejuvenate her career. How tired is this premise? This is the third episode, and the first time I’ve noted it – and I’m doing that only because, on the day after the July 4 holiday, it’s such a dreadfully slow TV night.

 
 
 
 
 
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