'It’s Done Already!!' Monday Brings Fox's Last CHICAGO CODE Ever!! Watch It, You Swine!!

I was saying this for Terriers. Great series, had potential, let's hope there's at least some closure in the final ep.

I remember reading your intial recommendation. watched it and loved it. Oh man its Terriers all over again!!!!!

We watched every episode - some twice - and we constantly blown away by how completely it sucked us in. Alderman Gibbons was one of the best, most complex bad guys on television. I only hope that the show ends with some sort of resolution.

Chicago Code was easily the best new show this year, I really can't believe they didn't give this show a little longer to gain a following (well yeah it's FOX, I guess I can believe it). It was so refreshing to have a show that actually felt like a real cop show for a change. It was also refreshing to have a setting that wasn't LA or NY.

Jenny was really miscast. Sorry.

but it was still great, and i will miss it.

What I assume Herc meant by the review comment, is that if there were more episodes to review, then Herc would be able to post something besides "Chicago Code Airs Tonight!!!". He could actually give a mini-review and inviso-text spoilers and create an actual article like he does when there is a show to review. And give a more informed opinion of the show before it airs, since that is what this website mainly does (as opposed to other websites that specialize in next-day post-mortems.) On that subject, I don't know why more studios dont send screeners for out for their bubble and struggling shows. Not like they can take that much of hit in the ratings due to pirating when they're already struggling. And maybe it might help having journalists and reviewers champion the shows more from the beginning instead of when it gets to the April-May decision months when it's too late.

I mean, it only has award-winning actors, world-beating showrunners, and looks to credibly take up some of the territory left by the departure of The Wire, but hey... I just we can mention that only when dirt's being shoveled on the corpse.

Enjoyed the hell out of it, but when it didn't catch immediately we all knew it was doomed. It's sickening when great shows like this have no chance of building a reputation. Still pining for my beloved Terriers. I still hope in my heart of hearts that they could continue the show by relaunching it with a different title once Britt is released following his two-year jail sentence.

There have been those here who have been saying good things about CC, despite the scant attention this site has devoted to it. Like Terriers, it found and settled into a groove, only to be cancelled by the increasingly bean-conscious execs at their respective networks, who used to protect and nurture art over commerce. To read that a series like Damages wouldn't have been greenlit in today's climate is disheartening.

"And the The Wire" then it couldn't make it to a full season only to be cancelled. I mean why bother advertising the show like that only to not support it, is beyond me.

2011 is the year Fox betrays its fans imo.

Is awesome. Can't believe they canceled it. Seriously, I'm totally blown away. http://oscarandozcar.com/

Also amazing. No reason to let that one go either.

Cihcago Code was really good.

No argument from me Herc. The show is well written, well acted, and has excellent production value for television. It's been a great boost to the local Chicago economy and really puts the best of the city on display. It's even got a catchy intro from Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. It's too bad this show hasn't found a more consistent audience. If it was an FX show, it's ratings would be considered solid, but it likely wouldn't have the same budget it does either. I'm still holding out hope TNT or some other network will recognize the value here and work on building it's audience. This should have been a new fall show and not a mid season replacement.

It might have been better if it didn't feel the need to constantly remind the viewer that it took place in Chicago. Also, it was clearly an L.A. executives idea of what Chicago is like. This doesn't even compare to brilliance that was Terriers.

Brother told me this weekend that it was cancelled and I called BS. No way THIS show was canceled. It was the best show on the entire network! Alas. He was right. Call me... YO MOM'S DISAPPOINTED GOAT.

shows fuckin awesome. with that lie to me and human target getting canceled, and family guy running out of jokes, fox is dead to me until alcatraz premieres

The Code was the SHIT!!! A lot of my shows are after 1 season!

I love this show, was loving where it was going then Fox cancels it. Why? So they can have two hours of American Idol followed by the X Factor? It blows me away that garbage like Two and a Half Men get like 9 seasons then after losing their star they keep going. Yet great shows like this get canceled. They need to fix Nielson ratings system. It's frankly bull shit that some old fuck in Missiouri counts for like 10,000 people. If the system wasn't fucked up a lot of good shows would still be on the air. So I'm done with new programming. Not going to get sucked into something then have it be dropped. Thanks Fox you got rid of all your good shows so now I barely have to watch your horrible programming.

But only ended up liking Chicago Code, I'm sure I would have grown to love it, but it wasn't the instant hit for me that The Shield or Terriers was. Still a bummer to see it canned, but I hope we see another project from these guys collaborating (Minear and Ryan), they seem to make angood team.

Wysocki: Everybody I've got bad news. We've been cancelled. Colvin: Oh no Jarek! How could they do that? Wysocki: Well unfortuantely Theresa, there's just no more room on the schedule. We just gotta accept the fact that FOX has to make room for terrific shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonder Falls, Fast Lane, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, Skin, Girl's Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda At Large, Costello, The Lone Gunman, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddy, The Street, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, And Greg The Bunny.... Colvin: Is there no hope? Wysocki: Well I suppose if ALL those shows go down the tubes we might have a shot.

"Coming together" being the operative term, as the shape of the show was hard to come to grips with (the first few episodes were aired wildly out of production order, partly because Ryan came to the decision late in the day that he needed more world-building episodes to insert earlier in the run). The environmental tolerances for how long a show has to establish itself seem to be narrowing all the time, and it may just be that CODE needed to spend more time in development so it could have been fully-formed from the beginning. Still, at least Delroy Lindo will be free to go to Broadway with his one-man extravaganza STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!

I've been hearing ads for tonight's ep on the radio and they keep mentioning, "season finale". WTF? Can anyone please explain to me why Fox is telling viewers this?

Well made and acted...but recycling scripts from his past superior cop show.

for championing a show that must just have been either too smart or too provincial for most Fox viewers. Or both. Being a Chicagoan but living in another part of the country, part of the joy of watching this show every week was seeing the neighborhoods I used to hang in.

Shawn Ryan has been fucked twice by Fox: TERRIERS and now TCC. But Tim Minear should never put his name on anything again, because it just ends up getting fucked. Which is certainly not to say that Minear is bad. He's fucking brilliant. But maybe he should consider changing his name... After FIREFLY, WONDERFALLS, DOLLHOUSE, the woefully underrated DRIVE, the woefully underrated THE INSIDE, and both the aforementioned shows with Shawn... poor guy just can't catch a fucking break.

http://www.netflix.com/ContactPR Write them to save it!

It deserved to be canceled. And don't you dare compare it to terriers, that's ridiculous.

But the most common question had to be -- why wasn't Killian wearing a vest during his perp walk? Some of the other plot points were a bit hollow and convenient, but they did serve to tie all the threads together. The issue with consistency also returned in this episode. Some of the cast, like Lindo, are great, but they only serve to illustrate how bad some of the minor characters are. In one of the early episodes, there was a woman in the crowd at a crime scene whose bad acting completely took you out of the moment. In the finale, Wysocki's dad seemed like he was dropped in from a completely different show, like an SNL caricature. I don't know whether to blame the actor, or the writing, or both. The actor who played him is capable of some subtlety (he also played Conrad Hilton on Mad Men), so the issue probably didn't completely rest on his shoulders. The final result was a (pretty) good show with potential, but some growing pains still to work out. But it's moot now.

but it was still enjoyable... On a decent cable channel it would have been much better.