Parents' Guide to

Chase

By Will Wade, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 15+

Violent series matches bland name with generic action.

TV NBC Drama 2010
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age 14+

Based on 1 parent review

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SullysSidekick Parent of 14-year-old
February 21, 2011
age 14+

Top Notch Writing

This show is the fastest hour-long series I've seen in a long, long time. It seems it just gets started and then it's coming to a close. Where did that hour go? Each show has never failed to draw me into the action/plot right from the very first scene. The title says it all, but the show has top notch writers that create very imaginative twists and turns so even though each show is about tracking a fugitive (what cop show isn't?), it's never, never the same storyline/plot. It had me sitting on the edge of my seat every single week. My only regret is that it's not on more often. And don't worry about the lady US Marshall, Annie, not being tough enough to be believable. This savvy actress more than proves she's very capable of doing the job. On a scale of 1-10, I give her (and the whole show) an 11.
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What's the Story?

CHASE starts off with, yep, a heart-pounding chase, as U.S. Marshal Annie Frost (Kelli Giddish) sprints after a fugitive. The pursuit leads them across traffic, through a herd of cows, and finally into a dark sewer, where Frost wrestles a much larger bad guy into submission. This is a lady who always gets her man, and she's at the center of a show that's all about tracking down bad guys on the run. Cole Hauser co-stars as Frost's partner, Jimmy Godfrey, and Jesse Metcalfe is Luke Watson, the new guy on the team who's destined to make every rookie mistake so that the veterans can tell him -- and thus the viewers -- what's going on.

Is It Any Good?

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Jerry Bruckheimer produces this police procedural about a team of U.S. marshals in Texas that hunts down the most dangerous bad guys -- so you can expect plenty of excitement ... and not much else. Don't expect much in the way of character development, or even plots that make sense. Does Texas really have that many deranged escaped killers on the loose? Hopefully not, but the series would be less interesting without a really bad dude to track down every week.

Giddish is fun to watch as a tough girl in cowboy boots, but her role -- like all of the roles -- is pretty narrowly defined. Track, pursue, capture, repeat each week as needed. Yawn.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about the show's violence. Does it seem realistic? What impact does it have on you? How does it compare to what you've seen in other cop/action shows?

  • Do you think the marshals' tactics are true to life? How do you think their job has changed now that so much data is available online?

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