I watched the first show and I had high hopes for about three minutes. In the first big scene, the local copper who doesn't like Our Hero (hereafter, OH) calls her "Cinco Peso." Since Texas Rangers' stars are traditionally stamped from Mexican five-peso pieces, I thought maybe someone had done some real research. A few minutes later, after the villain, Little Miss Red Shoes (LMRS), commits the murder, OH interviews a witness while the witness is splattered with the victim's blood. I've done that, but I've never seen it on TV before, so my hopes rose even higher. Then OH shows the witness a surveillance-camera photo of LMRS and says, "Is this her?" When she did that she made anything he said inadmissible in court. You have to show your witness at least six photos of similar-looking people to make sure the witness is identifying the suspect, and you're not identifying the suspect to the witness.
The first half of the show was silly. During the second half of the show, everything she did was illegal. And at the end, she proved that LMRS didn't mean to do it, she was coerced by the drug cartel, so everything was hunky-dory, right? Except that coercion is a defense for every crime EXCEPT murder, so the whole thing was pointless.
But she carried a 1911 .45 and petted cows, and I like 1911s and cows, so I decided to give the show another shot.
The second show was even sillier. First, her DEA boyfriend was working on his airplane's engine (against the law, only an FAA-licensed technician can touch an aircraft engine). Then, when she has to draw her gun, she holds it in a "cup-and-saucer" grip that hasn't been taught since about 1972. But on the upside, the villain in this one was a perky blonde whose life apparently depended on having everything below her hips exposed to daylight at all times. But even that couldn't make me go beyond two episodes.
Review of Killer Women
