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 loved this show….Please bring it back!! great chemistry between the actors and just the right amount of comedy!! Loved it and so disappointed!!
We Loved the show. Our kids loved it. Fridays are rough on tv shows. Hope they reconsider!
Can’t believe they cancelled this show. My wife and I have tried several other USA shows. Burn Notice jumped the shark a long time ago, same with Covert Affairs. White collar didn’t keep us interested. The only other show we watch now is Psych. I hope they will reconsider, but it is probably too late to get these guys back.
I can’t believe they cancelled this show and kept some others. I watched every episode. Couldn’t wait
I can’t believe it was cancelled either! I’ve been waiting for the previews and just now started to get worried. We saw every episode! They really need to consider DVR and on demand viewing when recording ratings if that’s how they decide to keep/cancel shows!
Bring this show back. It was entertaining
loved the series sorry to see it go
Absolutely loved this series. Did not realize it was canceled until now, since I have been patiently awaiting its return. I felt the concept, and chemistry between the main characters, was well done. I agree with the above comment and feel it was as good as White Collar. I even made sure I did not miss a single episode of Common Law but do not feel I need to be as diligent with White Collar. So how do we get it back. I do believe that there are many of us awaiting the return and will be very surprised and… Read more »
Yes, it was one of my favorite shows. Please put it back on
super serie drôle et legère
My family loved watching this show. Please bring it back!! Can’t believe they canceled this and kept White Collar… seriously!!
Loved this show! Smart and funny! PLEASE USA bring this back! I am an avid USA watcher (Psych, White Collar, Necessary Roughness, Fairly Legal, Royal Pains, etc…..) however the reruns, and reruns, and reruns of NCIS (also one of my fave shows) and Law and Order are getting BEYOND old!!!!! And I don’t want to walk away from one of my favorite tv channels because they are making stupid decisions without listening to the fans…a lot of us watch theses shows but due to busy work, life, kids, marriage, etc schedules we watch on dvr or on demand….please don’t cancel… Read more »
I agree with you all. I would love to see this show revived even if it’s on another station. I miss it a lot. I’m a csi junky but I love Michael Ealy and Travis. I actually had a chance to laugh on a Friday night and recover from all the stress of the week. Can we start a petition or something?
My mom and I loved watching the show. It made us laugh. We couldn’t wait for the next episode to come on. Please bring back for a second season.
AWE, I can’t believe common law is cancelled !! It is a good show, I’m gonna miss it for sure, Pleeeeeeeeeeese bring the show back !!! If they can do it for family guy 2 times, then it can be done for this show.
I have been wasted the entire summer and fall checking the menu to see when Common Law and Fairly legal. I have never watched USA before and since the shows I loved are
no longer I guess you have lost me. Good luck with your reruns.