- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 29, 2014
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The actors hit that soap sweet-spot between honest reality and lurid theatricality under direction from pros like Michael Apted and Catherine Hardwicke.
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I don’t dislike the show Reckless could be, and Gigandet and Wood are cute together ... But the pivotal case, in which many officers may have drugged and raped a colleague, demands to be taken seriously ... Switching back and forth to lighthearted flirtation feels terribly wrong.
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Fans of old-time network soaps may find something to enjoy here, but despite the promise that “dark secrets simmer behind every door and threaten to tarnish the genteel façade of seductive Charleston,” Reckless is decidedly bland and evinces almost none of the sense of place CBS proclaims.
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Reckless isn't anything close to being great TV, but it's diverting, especially as a summer replacement.
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Police corruption, sexual harassment and worse form the underpinnings of a soapy serial that's hard to take seriously but that might fit your summer mood.
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Reckless ultimately rests on a half-decent central romance buried in muddy sexual politics.
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Modestly diverting on its own terms and well-cast at the fringes, the show’s leads probably aren’t as compelling as they need to be.
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Reckless is executed competently enough, with everyone holding up his or her end of the bargain by being hot and trying to enliven the routine premises. But just about everyone in the cast has done better work elsewhere.
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The Southern-fried series too often skips courtroom drama in favor of forced sexual tension. [11 Jul 2014, p.65]
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A summery crime-soap, just complicated enough to be diverting without taxing brains addled by the sun. ... I can't exactly recommend it, and yet I must admit I watched many more episodes than was strictly necessary to write this review.
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Reckless, a summer crime-lawyer-melodrama mishmash that begins on Sunday on CBS, is determined to be vacuous, even though, every so often, it hints that it could be more substantive if it wanted to be
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Reckless feels like it was designed by a committee.
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Reckles is merely witless, akin to a trashy and disposable beach read that should come with its own sunscreen--or perhaps a wet bar to distract us from the cheesy plotting and cardboard acting.
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Clichés flow fast and furious.
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Her love-hate relationship with a local good ol’ boy lawyer (Cam Gigandet, “The O.C.”) is one of many predictable plot points in this instantly forgettable summer soap.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 13 out of 19
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Mixed: 0 out of 19
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Negative: 6 out of 19
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Jul 20, 2014This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.