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BATTLE CREEK stars Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters in a drama about two mismatched law enforcement officers whose polar opposite views of the world and crime-solving breed frustration, disdain, humor and possibly a grudging respect as they clean up the hardscrabble streets of Battle Creek, Mich.
Cast:
Josh Duhamel as Special Agent Milton Chamberlain
Dean Winters as Detective Russ Agnew
Janet McTeer as Commander Guziewicz
Kal Penn as Detective Fontanelle White
Aubrey Dollar as Holly Dale
Edward Fordham, Jr. as Aaron Funkhauser
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Reviews:
Variety
HitfixWhile Battle Creek hews relatively close to CBS procedural comfort zone, the series also exhibits the wry, slightly jaundiced view of the world that has always characterized Gilligans work.
The New York TImesIf you go in looking for another "Breaking Bad," you'll be sorely disappointed--even if the second episode contains several visual nods to the work of Heisenberg--but if you're looking for a snappy cop show, you should do okay.
Washington PostIt helps that Mr. Winters and Mr. Duhamel give performances that add some glints of complexity to their surface charm, and that the writers avoid many of the usual clichés. This is an engaging series about a likable bunch of co-workers that isnt too sweet or predictable.
Boston GlobeJudging only the pilot episode, the banter between them (Dean Winters and Josh Duhamel) can be fun and Gilligans influence lends a nice, creepy sheen to the notion that menace lurks anywhere, even (or especially?) in the upper Midwest.
Entertainment WeeklyWhile it by no means reinvents the concept, it is an entertaining-enough diversion that has sufficient fresh--or freshly recycled--elements to differentiate it from its ubiquitous procedural brethren.
In the aftermath of Breaking Bad, which revolutionized the crime drama, Battle Creek still feels today like a procedural from 2002.