‘Instinct’ Sneak Peek: Reinstated Dylan Must Now Play by the Rules (PHOTOS)
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Sort of bogus that the show feels the need to add stock characters to this show. Let me guess: we have the standard female African American police 'boss' who talks to them sternly, and a midwestern newcomer who looks doubtfully on Dylan's methods of investigation. Much as I like this show, and even though I know both new actors from previous roles they've had, I'm still sorry to see the show-runners adding ho-hum, stale characters.
(I'd be happy to be proved wrong!) 😉
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Sharon Leal is hardly a stock addition; she's been on the show since the pilot.
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Maybe she's not an addition (you're right, she's the detective's friend, and boss, and been there all along), but you have to admit that a black female police captain or lieutenant, boss of the main character(s), is pretty much a TV trope.
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It is a trope, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Tropes aren't automatically negative if they're used well. Mileage varies, of course, but personally I think the writers have made Jasmine sufficiently faceted to escape the cliche pitfalls so far.
New Guy, well. It remains to be seen.
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