It seems that the series carries more action and adventure where Trica and Giles are walking into a prostitution ring, but the lieutenant is afraid of what they may discover and orders them to stop. Illegal pets are leaking to California, so Tribeca and Giles follow a path that leads them to a high-risk poker game. On the other hand, she ordered to take a day off, Tribeca dabbles in civilian life, while Tanner and Geils solved the murder at the golf course.
Angie Tribeca is like an updated version of Police Squad. The humor is similar, full of puns and sight gags... Still, the jokes feel like they could take place in any era.
Not since the halcyon days of Airplane! and The Naked Gun has there been a piece of entertainment this richly, knowingly moronic. Anchored by an inspired deadpan performance from Rashida Jones.
Once you get into it, Angie Tribeca kind of wears you down with its good-natured loopiness, and you find yourself laughing despite what your brain is saying. The question is, once you turn it off, will you want to turn it on again?
It's a little like Fox's lovable "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," except the satire has much sharper teeth and the jokes have a decidedly flippant, "Reno 911"-like spin to them.
And so it rolls on, getting increasingly ludicrous and slapstick and becoming increasingly annoying to watch. It put me in mind of those Naked Gun and Airplane! type movies - where high spoof was the order of the day. And, I never liked those.
If you're a fan of The Naked Gun series as much as I am, you are going to LOVE this show. It's packed with full on deadpans and taking things very literally.
