Terriers

[JayDizzle]

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Terriers, from Creator/Executive Producer Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven) and Executive Producer Shawn Ryan (The Shield), is a comedic drama starring Donal Logue (The Tao of Steve, Damages) and Michael Raymond-James (True Blood). It centers on "Hank Dolworth" (Logue), an ex-cop who partners with his best friend "Britt Pollack" (Raymond-James) to launch an unlicensed private investigation business. As Hank and Britt struggle with maturity issues, the duo solve crimes while avoiding professional dangers and personal responsibilities. Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow, The Shield) directed the pilot episode.

Pilot plot:

Hank and his hetero-life-partner Britt take money and favors in exchange for solving crimes and basically doing menial shit that you or I would say no to.

Like stealing a dog in exchange for free dry cleaning.

Or solving a missing persons case which in turn evolves into a murder case.

Hijinx ensue.

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It airs on Wednesdays on FX at 10 PM EST and you should probably watch it.

 

[KillaK]

Show looks pretty funny. FX usually does have good shows on.

 

[SOS4Prez]

I'll probably check it out eventually.

 

[strahanfan92]

Solid show. I love Donal Logue.

COSIGN. Grounded for life is my shit.

 

[JayDizzle]

Second episode just about finished with a repeat on soon tonight.

 

Hank and Britt start feeling the ramifications of their planting the gun on Howard Lindus in the Pilot episode...

After a long interrogation by the local police department, Hank convinces Britt to help him find a criminal on the run for armed robbery.

Hijinx ensue, two dogs are pawned off on new owners (Britt gives his new dog to the criminal and the dog Britt/Hank stole in the Pilot episode now belongs to Britt and his GF), and we have overall plot growth.

Hank gets his old house back near the end and we get our first taste of how fucked up he truly is inside as he has a flashback from when he first got the house...

Before we fade to black, he ends up putting a hole in a wall.

If you haven't caught this show yet, I strongly suggest it (or at the very least, TiVO that shit, yo.).

 

[JayDizzle]

New Episode on tonight at 9 CST/10 EST.

If you're going to jump on this train, now's the time before FX freaks out about the low ratings.

 

[wingsfan77]

I caught up with this on Sunday and I really enjoyed it, I'll definitely be watching. Britt's girlfriend is hot as shit.

 

[Buzzman]

I really like this show, but it really looks like its going to be canceled because of ratings.

 

[JayDizzle]

I really like this show, but it really looks like its going to be canceled because of ratings.

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[wingsfan77]

Really solid episode, it's definitely a different type of show than most of what's out there.

 

[JayDizzle]

That ending... holy shit.

 

We go from Britt's past catching up to him (he was a crook specializing in B&E, robbery, theft, etc.), Hank doing the end-around to get a loan for his house (he faked a guy's infidelity in exchange for money to put on his new home), and more to:

Britt telling his girl that he robbed her and came back because he liked her (sound familiar? Go see The Town)... his girl in turn saw this as relationship defining experience and proceeded to give it up.

Hank on the other hand finally went straight to the point and just fucked the chick, got a bit of the stink finger and got what he wanted that way... which ended in the loan officer killing himself over it... which led to Hank forging the dead guy's signature to get the loan anyway.

Things are looking up for Britt and Hank is only digging himself into a deeper hole.

I can't wait until next week.

 

[Prodigal Son]

I woudln't worry about ratings. This is FX, not NBC. They'll give the show at least one full season and decide where to go from there.

 

[wingsfan77]

This show keeps getting better every episode.

 

[JayDizzle]

I caught the re-air and I'm digging the call-backs already to stuff brought up in previous episodes.

 

-Obviously the overarching Lindus storyline for this season... you can't just frame a multimillionare without reprocussions later on in your life.

-From the very first conversation between Hank and Britt, we learn that Hank's food has been going missing in his fridge.

Now we know why.

Say hello to Hank's bi-polar super genius sister... who happened to have been living in his attic for the past two episodes... and overheard Hank banging the shit out of the wife of the now-deceased businessman.

Also, this week's episode leads me to believe that Hank and Britt are going to jail for all the implausible shit they manage to get themselves into.

 

[Buzzman]

last episode had 640,000 viewers. This show has no chance at a second season.

 

[NAHSTE]

Is this good? I never have liked Donal Logue so I steered clear til now.

 

[Buzzman]

The show is phenomenal. It's a buddy show that uses the Private Investigator setup in the background, while the two leads dick around with there own problems, while also stirring up trouble where it's not wanted. The season so far is one long on going story instead of your typical cop stories. It's very creative, probably my favorite new show this fall and it sucks that it's not getting high ratings because it deserves to be watched. This is coming from someone who currently watches like 23 live shows.

 

[JayDizzle]

Newest episode SPOILERS:

 

I'm catching the re-airs of this now seeing as "The Challenge: Cutthroat" is showing on MTV.

So far, we have Hank's sister knowing how to dress a dead body to hide it later... :shifty:

...Hank and Britt discussing the merits of proper body disposal and whether or not a car should explode like in the movies if it falls off a cliff.

Short answer: No.

The Dynamic Duo are trying to avoid getting merked while figuring out who wanted Lindus dead; this ends up with Hank having a meeting with the guys who wanted said man dead.

He's told that he need to find paperwork (which Hank possesses) that Lindus had on him before Hank and Britt put Lindus in jail.

Hank shows up later at his ex-wife's (with said paperwork) who tells him that the land that Lindus' contracting company was building on is filled with enough toxic carcinogens to kill a shit-ton of people.

He ends up in a peculiar situation seeing as if he doesn't bring Lindus' enemies the paperwork, he and mostly anyone he's ever talked to will die.

Hank and Britt go back to the site where they dumped Lindus, planted the paperwork on Lindus' body, dropped a dime to the cops and lived almost happily ever after.

...until Hank's sister reports that the info about the Carcinogens is bullshit and Hank finds out that the only thing worse than intentionally planting evidence on yourself is us intentionally doing it to cover up something more sinister.

At this point? Lindus died for nothing, Hank/Britt are WAY OVER THERE HEADS and there's nothing they can do at the moment.

 

[wingsfan77]

"You've never been high before, have you."
"Looking at me, you'd think yes....but no."

Wonder where they'll take the story from here, I really don't think that storyline is completely over yet.

 

[JayDizzle]

New episode on tonight.

 

Hank and Britt go after a valuable stone that's been passed around more often than an ex-girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.