SummaryNew York detective Caitlyn "Cat" Sullivan (Chyler Leigh) has been seeking her father's killer when she was demoted to foot patrol. Taxi driver Leo Romba (Jacky Ido) makes a deal with Cat after she discovers he lied on his immigration forms.
SummaryNew York detective Caitlyn "Cat" Sullivan (Chyler Leigh) has been seeking her father's killer when she was demoted to foot patrol. Taxi driver Leo Romba (Jacky Ido) makes a deal with Cat after she discovers he lied on his immigration forms.
There’s something lighthearted about the proceedings, murder and mayhem aside, because the show is more interested in the character drama than the procedure. Taxi Brooklyn embraces the New York-ness of both its main characters, and that bodes well for its future--and provides something fascinating to watch through the summer, in the meantime.
Perhaps over that time, it will evolve into the buddy dramedy it needs to be. Until then, though, it's just another police procedural, and prime time already has plenty of those.
If you like some of those undemanding USA shows, you just might cotton to this one. Taxi Brooklyn requires no thinking--in fact, it discourages thinking. Ido is winning, too, which helps matters.
Despite the shaky-cam usage, jarring jump cuts and incomprehensible editing that complicates already head-spinning plots (where phrases like "Chinese hackers" are thrown out casually, but never followed up on), Taxi Brooklyn is still unlikely to fool viewers into thinking it is anything more than a middling show on a midweek night.
The few glints of tolerability reside in Ido’s easygoing performance as Leo; he’s a French transplant with an aversion to confined spaces. But any goodwill pretty quickly evaporates, as he tries to assist Cat while spouting expository dialogue and doing things like referencing his affinity for “CSI,” presumably to justify his participation.