Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television - Season 1
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The criminal series deals with a glossy comic experience, as LAPD thinks of a good idea to create a workforce that actors engage with murder investigators. Over time, Ryan and Mathers gently meet, solve the first two murders and start other distinct experiences.
Critics Of "Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television - Season 1"
New York Times
January 30, 2019
"Solves Crimes" has potential, but its problem is hard-wired into its premise and its venue: You wish that someone more interesting to watch than Mr. Hansen were at the center of it.
I don't think Wiley is giving a great performance as Hansen's sidekick, but it's so much fun to see the Orange Is the New Black and Handmaid's Tale veteran in this context that it hardly matters.
The police-procedural plot is really, it turns out, just a framework on which to hang jokes. And they're good ones, so that makes Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television lots of fun to watch.
The reason to watch RHSCOT is for Ryan Hansen, who is funny, charming, and an exceedingly likable lead. But he gets a little buried in the show's manic desire to incorporate and satirize every conceivable genre in each half-hour episode.
One episode turned into two, and four hours later, I'd finished the entire 8-episode first season and found myself sitting in a puddle of disappointment because the second season doesn't air until January 30th.
For all of its self-deprecation (and platform deprecation), "Ryan Hansen Solves Crime on Television" is a sturdy little half-hour, with a procedural template that promises a neatly tied off case at the end of each episode.
