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?
This is a great show. So sorry to hear it was canceled.
Please bring back Golden Boy, it is a very classy show and the actors and story are wonderful. Many of my friends are also disappointed that it has been canceled, please reconsider. Great show!
For the first time in many years there is a Cop Series worth watching and staying out late night for. I don’t know why they cancelled this series. Its crazy. They’ve got idiotic tv series going on all week and some of them don’t even make sense and they decide to cancel Golden Boy. What has American Viewership come to? This series was made to fail from the start since they could not let it start at an earlier time… then they put it at ten at night was even worse. My comment may not make a dent in bringing… Read more »
Please bring back Golden Boy, I really enjoy the plot.
Can’t believe that a really good show doesn’t even get a chance at a second season!
Why don’t they cancel about a dozen garbage reality shows instead?
DISAPPOINTED is not a strong enough word for how I feel.
Please bring this show back! My husband and I absolutely loved this show. This was the ONLY show he watched on TV. We loved the plot and it had great acting. CBS- save this one!
BRING IT BACK !!!
Wow so abrupt to end this show this way. Loved loved loved it as my husband also loved it. Very disappointing, so much garbage on tv, we finally get a good show and its cancelled. Very sad……..
Please reconsider and bring it back…perhaps on another day of the week. It is too good to cancel, just because people didn’t find it doesn’t mean it wasn’t good! Loved the stories, characters, and good acting!
I, too, really enjoyed this show. Wish it were continuing, but if not, AT LEAST, END THE STORY LINE. Don’t leave us guessing.
BRING IT BACK!!!!!
Great show so sorry to hear it was canceled. What is CBS doing? PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW BACK.
We need to knows what really happened.
I really enjoyed Golden Boy and am sorry it won’t be continued. Is there any chance they will rethink this decision
Cannot believe this great show is cancelled. Great plot & acting. please bring it back.