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?
Image courtesy USA.
truly looked forward to seeing this show return. Yet I find stuff like Criminal minds, Duck show weird shows were still being seen and considered ‘good’ show, ‘funny ‘ shows , and ‘reality’ shows like I am having their baby and stuff like this continue to flourish, this is very stupid. Who do they have rating shows?……..dead people. really…..really…..and these are people that say this is good, great, and outstanding. now what for Common Law and us?
i LOVED common law! i was looking forward to it only to find it canceled. it was a great show.
Why do the good shows get canceled and all we have left are reality shows or singing and dancing. Common Law was a good show and funny. I have been waiting for the next season. them being different made the show great. Thank you USA Network. What to do now?
What can we do to get this show back on??? I’ve been waiting a year for rhetorically new season!!!!!
And one of the few great shows on TV down the drain….thanks USA. This was one that the hubby and I looked forward to each week….great changing storylines with the continuing story of the partners’ therapy. Always entertaining…..always great writing….always awesome characters and character development! In a vast sea of reality show drivel and other garbage, WHY did USA have to take away this GEM?!?!
This was one of the best shows I had seen. In years, what are they thinking cancelling it????
In the bleak landscape called network television this was one of the few truly entertaining programs. Decisions like this is why more and more people are moving away from television and to services like Netflix. I have 160 channels of brain deadening trash. One of the few programs worth watching and it gets canned. Go figure!
Well that was just stupid!! It was an hit, I loved that show….
I really found myself looking forward to seeing the quirky ‘working’ friendship and work relationship between the Travis and Wes every Friday night. It kinda reminded me of the old ‘Starsky and Hutch’ or ‘Cagney and Lacey’ pairings back in the day. These guys appear to be the next generation of this type of partnership. Please, please, PLEASE reconsider and NOT permanently cancel this series. Possibly bring it back as an “OFF” or “MID” season series?? Looking forward to seeing how this ‘odd couple’ find a balance between their work and social lives….
seriously????? Do Not Cancel this show!!! it was fun, entertaining and something to look forward to.
We really need a better way to make the executives understand that we are tired of the “reality” shows! I enjoyed this program. My Mom was the one who told me about it. Even my teenage son enjoyed this show. Please give it another chance!!!!!!!
I absolutely loved this show. Can’t believe they cancelled it. I think the plot was original. It was funny but solved serious cases at the same time. Oh and the two leading men were very nice to look at. Would love it if this show came back on, most of the cop show are too much alike. And were do they get these ratings? I would like to know.
R U FREAKN SERIOUS!!!!! Who makes these decisions to cancel? I stayed home on Friday nights JUST to watch!!!! This Sucks Asssss!!!!
I loved this show BRING IT BACK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do they cancel the good shows, u keep asking for different and when u get different and good u dump it. Maybe the new different and good should be tv exec with guts. Now u know why I rarely watch TV!!