Burns problem is he had these guys talking too much to the point you could tell Burns was in love with his writing. Dialogue needs to have the balance between invoking character and helping move the story forward. This was just a lot of bullshi--ing.
shareYip.totally agree.
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Admittedly, Burns does have his moments when writing dialogue, and he's always relied on dialogue to push his stories forward. I guess it comes from not having the money or interest to go for big action scenes and whatnot.
That said, there were quite a few tense action scenes in this show. Richie Kane and Rusty both killed their fair share of people, and Monk's rampage came right out of left field (For the record, I especially liked his exchange with the last victim of his shoot-out).
I think the bigger problem with this show was way too many characters. The dialogue I could live with, but goddamn it if Burns didn't aim too high with his story. I didn't care about Bull and his relationship with the prostitute. I didn't care about Sean and his lady. And I definitely didn't care about the Italian cop and his mob girlfriend. If Burns had focused more on the interesting storylines like Richie's vendetta, Rusty and his father, Terry and his family, then the show might not have been cancelled.