What brings audiences back again and again are not the storylines revolving around the cases our private investigators pursue - the writers won't be winning any prizes for originality here - but, instead, we viewers are solidly invested in the wit and banter of the characters.
Jake Doyle (Allan Hawco) continues to be the best part of the show. He is charming and handsome, but SO flawed, so awkward, that he is no different from most of the charming men one actually meets in the world.
He and Malachy (Sean McGinley) play off each other as well in the third episode as they did in the first. The timing and the choice of comments made is always funny and always said with just the right undercurrent of love and annoyance towards one another.
With solid acting and character-writing (even if some of the other writing is a little ridiculous), Republic of Doyle has a solid chance of staying on the air. Not something that can be said about most Canadian shows.
In this particular episode, which I should focus a little more on rather than just comment on the show as a whole, we again got a lot of action scenes. Not Jake chasing people across boats or roof tops, but he did get into more than one fist fight and he also had a little action on the side - not with his ex-wife, Nikki (Rachel Wilson), who may be pregnant, nor with Constable Leslie (Krystin Pellerin), though, when she was drunk, she was very interested in him - with a client's wife. I'm not sure what the purpose of this side plot was - to show Jake as a dog, to add a little more sex, to put a little more attention towards the tattoo clue? It wasn't necessary, but watching Allan Hawco running up the street wearing nothing but tight black shorts was not something I'd complain about.
Have you begun watching this show yet? What's your opinion?
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