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“I’m looking for a man covered in silver spray-paint. Have you see him?

I sat down this morning with the plan of working my way though all of the television I couldn’t get to earlier in the week. First up on the docket (I call my DVR, “Docket”) was last Monday’s K-Ville. As I mentioned in my review of the pilot K-Ville has a ton of potential. It also has Anthony Anderson, who I love. Sadly, the television schedule is just too tight and time needs to cut wherever it can. For me, K-Ville just isn’t interesting enough to warrant a permanent spot in my Monday rotation. Too much cop-show, not enough New Orleans. More after the jump…

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Trevor from Cincinnati

I hate when actors go on a talk show to promote whatever movie or television series they happen to be on that month and use the phrase, “It’s almost like the city is a character in the movie,” to describe why the film was being shot on location in Dayton or wherever. I’m sure at one point in time someone said this and it was genuine and heartfelt and legitimately true, but anymore it comes off as an excuse for having characters that aren’t all that interesting or a story that isn’t compelling on its own terms.

In the pitch for K-Ville (which kicks off the fall season tonight on FOX at 9pm) I’m certain this phrase was used to sell the premise: a police procedural set in post-Katrina New Orleans. I get this feeling because over the course of this series’ first hour we’re never allowed to forget that YES this is New Orleans and YES there was a massive disaster here two years prior and YES it has significantly altered the lives of everyone in the city. I’ve never been to New Orleans and wouldn’t begin to assess the problems of the city, but even the most out-of-touch person on the planet would have to feel K-Ville, whose intentions could very well be honorable, is oversimplifying a very complicated situation. It’s the Forrest Gumpification of reducing historical complexities to small, sugar-coated, morsels of entertainment.

That being said, I wholly recommend tuning in. Reasons why after the break…

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