Network: CBS
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: February 26, 2013 — May 14, 2013
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Theo James, Chi McBride, Kevin Alejandro, Bonnie Somerville, Holt McCallany and Stella Maeve.
TV show description:
This dramatic series follows the fast rise (from age 26 to 34) of an ambitious cop who becomes the youngest police commissioner in the history of New York City — and the high personal and professional cost he pays to achieve it.
As Walter William Clark Jr. (Theo James) is interviewed for a story about his career, he looks back on his hard-fought journey from street kid to the most powerful man in law enforcement.
After only three years as a beat cop, Clark’s heroics on the job make him bold enough to ask for and receive the unheard-of promotion to homicide detective, angering the members of his new department who are eager to see him fail.
Clark is partnered with and mentored by experienced veteran Detective Don Owen (Chi McBride), a man just two years shy of retirement.
He would rather team with First Grade Detective Christian Arroyo (Kevin Alejandro), the alpha dog in the squad who’s just as ambitious as Clark — but without a moral center. Arroyo’s partner is Detective Deborah McKenzie (Bonnie Somerville), a tough third-generation cop and the only female detective in the unit.
Also on the team is Detective Joe Diaco (Holt McCallany), a well-connected officer with tremendous resources (which Clark might find useful). Though laser-focused on moving up the ladder, Clark’s soft spot is serving as the sole caregiver and supporter of his sister, Agnes (Stella Maeve) — a teenager demonstrating increasingly dangerous behavior.
Keenly observant and politically savvy, “Golden Boy” Clark bases his career decisions solely on his need to succeed as quickly as possible, and he’ll find that his epic journey will be filled with consequences.
Episode #13 — Next Question
Limited by his suspension and relegated to desk duty, Clark delves into Owen’s cold case in which the murder investigation of a construction worker, Jozef Dworaczyk, was compromised by the events of 9/11 happening simultaneously. Andrew Lightstone, Owen’s partner and mentor, was with him on the case and was called up to the North Towers leaving Owen to work the case on his own. That was the last time Owen saw Lightstone.
Clark notes the lack of shell casings and no reports of shots fired to speculate that a contract hit man could have been used. He and Owen confront the drug dealer whose crack house served as the crime scene about the similar way in which his rivals were killed, and the dealer reveals the name of the hit man he suspects had targeted him but mistook Dworaczyk for him instead.
When they track down the hit man, Owen coerces him to confess to fifteen murders including Dworaczyk’s and is rewarded with a promotion. Clark is perturbed when he discovers that three men were wrongly imprisoned for three of those murders and Commissioner Dowdell tells him to disregard his findings.
Lorraine kicks Arroyo out of the house after she discovers that he’s been cheating on her. Meanwhile, Clark’s father persuades Agnes to drive away with him and a volatile Deputy Mayor Holbrook confronts Clark and Margot with a gun.
First aired: May 14, 2013
What do you think? Do you like the Golden Boy TV series? Are you sorry that it’s been cancelled and there won’t be a second season?
I don’t get it!! I loved this show!!!
This show is unique in how it approaches the story line. Excellent casting and scripts. Please give this show another season to find its audience.
This is a shame move on the network…this is a show worth keeping and needs another season.
I am getting sick of the same shows every year. This was a fresh story line on how it developed over 7 years. Now that you canceled the show, your faithful viewers will not be able to see it till its finally. I am sick of reality shows. I think that who ever decides what shows stay and go needs to go. Reality shows are bringing down the quality of TV. I am getting tired of the shows that I love to watch get axed every year and then you continue to keep the crap around. I wonder if you… Read more »
why are all the good shows cancelled? My friends and I look forward to seeing this every week.
please do not cancel this show. It is one of the few on TV that is so good!!!It is so well acted, and so much better than so many that were kept.
One of the best new shows. Would like to see another season or more. I do not watch your reality shows or your comedy.
One of the best new shows. Would like to see another
This is one show that my husband and I actually sit down t0gether to watch weekly. Our kids are in bed and we have time to relax on Tuesday nights watching Golden Boy. We both say all the time how much we love the show! Hearing of it’s cancellation really upset me. CBS Execs are really starting to deter me from watching any new shows that come on their network.
enjoyed the show. shouldn’t be cancelled.
Why are good shows cancelled and all of these stupid reality shows stay. We all know that each reality show is scripted. Goden Boy was a fresh approach to police shows. Please keep it going.
PLEASE do NOT cancel Golden Boy … For once, in a very long while … YOU GOT IT RIGHT this time with GOLDEN BOY and the Characters … They are perfect! Everyone I know Loves this series … NO ONE wants to watch more GOOFY COMEDIES! We actually wait anxiously to watch the next episode of this series … PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THIS TV SERIES! Greatly disappointed in North Eatern New York State!
Dear Sirs and Madams
Please do not cancel Golden Boy! It will destroy my mother! We watch this show faithfully every Tuesday to see what real life stories, struggles the writers are going to touch on. We love Theo James and Chi McBride what a great team! A long with the rest of the cast. We want to know what happens in the next 7 yrs. Just so you know there is another show on at the same time and I have to record it. Because I will not miss Golden Boy. Please not cancel it
I seriously hope you reconsider the fate of this show. Looking at your entire lineup you have a bunch of 1/2 half hour comedies which do not interest anyone in my household at all and a bunch of reality shows which we refuse to watch because they are just insulting to anyone with an intelligent brain. You have barely over a half dozen decent dramas on for those of us who would like to be entertained in the evenings with an actual storyline. The 9 million viewers of this show are important and I hope you will give serious consideration… Read more »
Golden Boy, this is a great show. Don’t cancel! I look forward to watching weekly. Vegas is also worthy of watching.