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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lOVED THIS SHOW
This was a really fun show–both my husband and I enjoyed it! Please bring it back and take out at least half the crap that keeps getting renewed!!!!
Is there any chance this show will be picked up again? Maybe by a new network? This is/was one of the better shows on TV
Bring back Common law. It was a good show.
DEAR USA
CANT UNDERSTAND YOUR NETWORK CANCELLING COMMON LAW.. GREAT SHOW MY HUSBAND & I REALLY ENJOYED IT. GOOD SHOWS LIKE THIS GET CANCELLED & OTHER STUPID SHOWS CONTINUALLY GET RENEWED. SOMEBODY AT USA NEEDS TO CLEAN HOUSE & HIRE PEOPLE THAT KNOW GOOD SHOWS AND WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS.. I HOPE USE RE=THINKS THIS DECISION WHEN THEY SEE HOW MANY VIEWERS THEY ARE LOSING DUE TO STUPID DECISIONS. THIS IS ONE HOUSEHOLD THAT WONT BE WATCHING USA AGAIN……
BRING THE SHOW BACK ON, WE HAVE ENOUGH REALITY SHOWS ON TV, CAN THE ADULT WORLD SEE SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE CARBASHING FAMILY, HONEY WHO, WHO, AND ALL THE REST, PLEASE! BRING THE SHOW BACK ON.
One of my favorite shows andyou go and cancel it. It has humor,crime, love,what else would you want? Bring common law back.
I really like Common Law. Every time a good show comes on, it gets cancelled.
I cannot believe they cancelled this show. Honestly, can these networks RELAX and give a show a chance!?!?!?!?! I find it amaaaaazing that they cancel a show for “low ratings” yet when it IS cancelled you find that many people loved and watched the show. Its like the networks could really give a “s” what their viewers really like….because I surely am not interesting in crap shows like “oh I got preggers and I am 12” or “I was the niece of a cousin of some mobster” I WANT MY SHOWS! Grrrrrrrrrr. Okay I am done.
I was looking forward for a second season of Common Law, I enjoyed the way the actors inter act with each other.
I was looking forward to te return of the show. Disappointed that it will not return. They should reconsider
I totally enjoyed Common Law and felt that it has loads of humour and action! The two main characters complemented each other very well! The network must be crazy to cancel the program! I hope they seriously decide to bring it back!
I am very disappointed that the show is not returning for a second season. I really enjoyed watching it. It was funny, full of action and I loved the couples therapy. I was searching the Internet to see when it was returning and found out about the cancellation. I hope they reconsider and bring the show back.
I loved the show.I am very disappointed I was waiting for the show to return.Will another network pick up the show?I hope viewer can change their mind
I am greatly disappointed that this show has been canceled. I was so looking forward to the renewed season. I cannot believe some of the crap that’s still on TV and this gets canceled. Unbelievable!