![]() ![]() She tells him she’s defined herself in opposition to her family (though, at 35, she’s just moved back in with them) he tells her that he’s defined by his. (Nor will she know his line of work, except for the true fact that he owns a bar.) Each is at an emotional low: Charlie and his family have just been ripped off by his girlfriend, who absconded with the $10 million the Nicolettis weaseled out of a pack of Irish mobsters, and Emma has discovered her boyfriend is cheating on her.īut, as expected, they spark something in one another, share confidences. One night in the bar of a swank hotel, he meets Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim), whose politically high-powered family has no idea that she works for the CIA - nor will Charlie in the two episodes out for review. In the likable “The Company You Keep,” an action romance premiering Sunday on ABC and developed by Julia Cohen from the Korean series “My Fellow Citizens!,” Milo Ventimiglia plays Charlie Nicoletti, a con artist from a family of con artists. Each has its charms, its sticky premise, its attractive, TV-sized cast. The winter season has added a few new untrue crime stories to the broadcast catalog, pushing some of the same buttons - action, suspense, romance (which is also suspense) and leavening comedy - with various degrees of emphasis, in different aesthetic flavors. ![]() ![]() Life is messy, they say, but it generally works out - except for the body in the library, of course. Problems are solved within an episode, even when longer arcs are attached it’s character and not cliffhangers that draw you back. Many lack “seriousness,” even when they’re dealing with serious things, a weightlessness that helps make them watchable week after week. There is, among these shows, an unavoidable embrace of the obvious, given just how many thousands - hundreds of thousands - of hours such stories have logged over the years. On some fundamental level, NBC equals “Law & Order” and whatever else Dick Wolf has going, and CBS is just “NCIS” and a bunch of sitcoms. Crime pays, if you’re a television network, and especially if you’re network television, where reckoning with malefactors has a long and rich history and continues to have a dominating presence. ![]()
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