Network: USA
Episodes: 12 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: May 11, 2012 — August 10, 2012
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Warren Kole, Michael Ealy, Jack McGee, Sonya Walger
TV show description:
This TV series revolves around two incredible — and incredibly different — police detectives. When things come to a head during their “seven-year itch” as partners, their captain forces them into couples therapy to save their “work marriage.”
Travis Marks (Michael Ealy) has a laidback demeanor and can seem nonchalant but is fiercely intelligent, has natural instincts and a maverick style that works. A product of street living and the foster system, Travis has the uncanny ability to read people. He’s also a ladies man who’s always got a date but has a hard time admitting his mistakes and making a commitment.
His partner, Wes Mitchell (Warren Kole), is intelligent, observant, obsessively methodical, and a man who keeps emotions bottled up inside. His perfectionist behavior sometimes rubs others on the LAPD the wrong way. Formerly an ace lawyer, Wes left that world after a client committed suicide. Now, he tries to keep his free-spirited partner in line and uses his legal acumen and affinity for facts to track down the bad guys. It’s good for the department but his marriage to his wife Alex didn’t survive because of his job.
Captain Sutton (Jack McGee) used to be the fire-breathing dragon of the LAPD homicide division, but years of therapy have made him a more understanding, open leader -– much to the chagrin of anyone who’s around when he feels like sharing.
Travis and Wes have a seven-year track record as the Los Angeles Police Department’s best detectives in the Robbery-Homicide Division. Because their constant bickering is interfering with their work and lands them on probation, Captain Sutton sends them to couples therapy with his own counselor.
A tough-as-nails therapist, Dr. Emma Ryan (Sonya Walger) tries to help Travis and Wes understand and resolve their conflicts and confront their demons in order to enhance their ability to work together solving crimes.
Episode #12 — Gun!
After being kicked out of Dr. Ryan’s group, Wes and Travis make a deal with their eccentric new therapist to get them out of counseling for good. But when a run-in with the members of the Special Investigations Section leads Travis to blow his top, the detectives realize that they don’t just need to go back to therapy — they need Dr. Ryan. Chastened, the duo offers to tell Dr. Ryan the story of how they ended up in counseling in the first place if she’ll take them back.
Flashback a few years. Officer Davis Paek, aka Pac-Man, introduces two detectives who would go on to distinguished careers in the Robbery Homicide Division: Wes Mitchell and Travis Marks. Hoping to return the favor, the detectives throw a couple of arrests their friend’s way and before long Pac-Man is being drafted by the SIS, a step up the ladder that would make any officer envious. But everything is not as it seems in the SIS, and when Pac-Man winds up dead, Wes and Travis start down the path that eventually leads to their meltdown.
Now, on the eve of Pac-Man’s birthday, Wes and Travis have a chance to bring his killers to justice — if they can first repair the damage from their own falling out. With a true breakthrough so close, Wes and Travis must confront the feelings that split them apart.
First aired: August 10, 2012
What do you think? Did you like Common Law? Are you sorry to hear that it’s been cancelled? How would you have ended the show?
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I purchased the DVD’s to this show and I watch them every night when I cook. I laugh all through them. It was a great show. No to bloody, not to gory, a good combination of humor and serious. The characters clicked. I don’t understanding why this show was cancelled. It wasn’t really given a chance to make it’s mark and that is sad! Bring it back!!!!!
This series kept you on your toes; whether it was the action activied chase scences or when Travis & Wes had to reflect on the emtional rections to their partners daily performance
I LOVE THIS SHOW! Why would you cancel it?
Acting is great between the two lead stars and the support cast is wonderful.
Again, why would you cancel this show???
I wish there was a way to bring back this show I was also looking forward to season 2. Makes me sad that it was canceled I have no idea why it was a incredible show had me hooked from the 1st episode.
Every time I get hooked on a real good show, for some reason they cancel. It’s like I am the only one watching it. I wish it would come back.
This is sad I was looking forward to season 2. It seems like whoever runs these networks have no sense. They renew shows that are stupid and boring but cancel shows that are funny and interesting. I would of not seen the first season if they had no second season in mind.
So sad, really liked this show 🙁
I was sad to see this show is cancelled. i loved it. but looking forward to Almost Human with Michael Ealy
this show was so awesome. All great cast not just one could actor and the rest ahh so so, good story to it and funny as hell. fell in love with it but now its not coming back wth is up with that?
I so agree with all the comments! So disappointed that the show was cancelled after so few episodes. Would love to see it return.
I so agree with all the comments! So disappointed that the show was cancelled after so few episodes. Would love to see it return.