This review is based on the first two episodes only.

The two main characters in the first two episodes were detectives Henry Graff (Aden Young) and detective Frankie Bateman (Kathleen Munroe). After a couple episodes, I was thinking about the posters we've seen around Toronto: these show the two of them, their police captain (Karen Robinson), and crown attorney (K. C. Collins). I think the balance has been more even in the past: in most L&O variants, we spend about half our time with the detectives, and half with the lawyers. In the first two episodes, the single lawyer showed up long enough to mention the need for "indisputable evidence" (both episodes) and then went away again, immediately. So this is a detective show?

Graff is an obnoxious walking encyclopedia: he knows the quality of the soil in your planter box and how it probably got that way, he knows not only the currents on Lake Ontario but also how they change during a storm. As he did this repeatedly on multiple subjects, it seemed less and less likely he could know all this stuff. He's a walking plot device.

My friend and I had a great time enjoying the blatantly Toronto locations, but the weak writing was a problem. I'm reviewing these two episodes (rather than the full season) because I'm not expecting to watch any more, and I want a reminder of why not. It might get better, but that would require the writing improve significantly ...