Tommy (2020): Season 1

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CBS | Season Premiere Date: February 6, 2020

Summary: NYPD officer Abigail "Tommy" Thomas (Edie Falco) is hired to become the first female Chief of Police for the LAPD in this drama from Paul
Attanasio.

Genre(s): Drama

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Glenn Garvin

Feb 15, 2020

A funny, horrifying, and generally thrilling account of a female Los Angeles police chief's rocky relations with the city's scummy, thieving (and, of course, male) power brokers. Read full review

Amy Amatangelo

Feb 6, 2020

It’s no surprise that Falco presides over all of this with aplomb. She’s instantly believable, instantly real. You’ll root for her take-no-prisoners Tommy, be frustrated for her, question her decisions, and admire her decisiveness. She’s everything you need in a lead character. It helps that Falco is supported by a strong cast. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Feb 4, 2020

Where the show does best is in its treatment of Tommy’s private life. In depicting her tentative reconnection with her adult daughter (Olivia Lucy Phillip), a Angeleno-by-choice who left her work-crazed mom behind long ago, the show hits familiar beats nicely. ... A problem the show has yet to solve is that the kind of power she exercises when in uniform would tend to make her unknowable, and keeping her as open and big-hearted in every moment of the show’s running time defies belief. Read full review

The Guardian Stuart Jeffries

Oct 7, 2020

An otherwise sparkling script drowns in backstory. Read full review

Rob Owen

Jan 30, 2020

It’s all a little too on-the-nose and predictable. Falco is fantastic as always, but the writing in early episodes lacks anything approaching the nuance and sophistication of Falco’s past series, “The Sopranos” and “Nurse Jackie.” Read full review

Kelly Lawler

Feb 6, 2020

Everything except Falco's performance lands rather dully. The writers fail to make the supporting cast nearly as compelling. Kate is inconsistent, sometimes flighty and hysterical, other times grounded and responsible, making her hard to pin down. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Feb 6, 2020

After the pilot, I was prepared to be enthusiastic about CBS having landed an above-average version of a very CBS-y show. After the second episode, I was prepared to savage the show. And after three? It's just another mediocre broadcast show that probably could have been a lot better. Read full review

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crosscut

Apr 22, 2020

I like it- finally a woman playing chief of police in Los Angeles. We need more shows portraying women in male dominated fields.

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dramaaddict

Feb 8, 2020

It is a fantastic show. Please don't let the severe right wing people dissuade you from this show because it addresses women in power, a lesbian, immigration, etc. It is well written and the actors are superb.

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tropicAces

Apr 5, 2020

It certainly has a few preachy moments (some of which are cringe), but there is some sort of compulsively watchability about it. Hopefully they can trim the fat for season two because there’s a lot that works here.

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Ariadne

Feb 9, 2020

I wanted to like it, but I just can't. Edie was wonderful, but someone give her a decent script to work with. It glossed over all the drama so it could introduce the premise... chauvinist mayor 'forced' to hire a woman to do the job of chief of police midst a corrupt and misogynisticI wanted to like it, but I just can't. Edie was wonderful, but someone give her a decent script to work with. It glossed over all the drama so it could introduce the premise... chauvinist mayor 'forced' to hire a woman to do the job of chief of police midst a corrupt and misogynistic police force and system. I just wanted a good cop drama. I got an "everything that's wrong with the system" and one woman is going to clean it up, even though she can't seem to clean up her relationship with her daughter.

Edie is worth so much more than this. What a shame.… Expand

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Ededed

Apr 26, 2020

Premise had some promise, but the writing is just too left wing PC crap out of the gate.

We like lesbians who were rotten mothers. We like women in power. We hate ICE. White males are all corrupt. Predictable and not at all accurate representation of female police officers. I havePremise had some promise, but the writing is just too left wing PC crap out of the gate.

We like lesbians who were rotten mothers.
We like women in power.
We hate ICE.
White males are all corrupt.

Predictable and not at all accurate representation of female police officers. I have one in the family and she is nothing like “Tommy!”

Tommy needs to call PC Reagan on Blue Bloods for advise on how to handle an idiot mayor with a corrupt city hall. She needed to learn some lessons on how to play the political games before taking on LAPD.

Hoped for better. Didn’t get it.… Expand

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Season 1

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  Air Date: February 6, 2020
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