Jennifer Lopez can do almost anything. She can dance; she can sing; she can assess the vocal talents of Denver teens; she can exude more star quality than a luminous sphere of hot plasma careening through an expanding universe. What Jennifer Lopez can NOT do is portray a character that is not Jennifer Lopez. Just look at her acting resume: What began with immersive character work in things like Out of Sight and Selena and especially In Living Color suddenly became a laundry list of hilarious miscastings where Jennifer Lopez tried and failed to portray ordinary folks. Jennifer Lopez as an FBI agent in The Cell? Nope. Jennifer Lopez as a hotel worker in Maid in Manhattan? Absolutely not. Jennifer Lopez as an ordinary suburban mom in The Boy Next Door? Still LOL-ing. The sad truth is, Jennifer Lopez hasn’t seemed “real” since “I’m Real,” and while it’s not exactly an insult — Jennifer Lopez is AMAZING as herself — her star quality is VERY distracting when it comes to her new NBC cop show, Shades of Blue.
I’m definitely not saying that glamorous, gorgeous women can’t be Brooklyn cops. I’m merely saying that Jennifer Lopez can’t be a Brooklyn cop. Her Detective Harlee Santos is meant to be a gritty, headstrong, corrupt cop who gets swept up in an FBI operation to root out the even more corrupt cops in her midst (including Ray Liotta), but really she’s just Jennifer Lopez with a frizzy cotton candy hairdo and a cowboy walk. Directed by one of the creators of Homicide: Life on the Street and feeling very much like a brighter-lit network version of The Shield, Shades of Blue desperately wants to be edgy and compelling. On the upside? Story-wise, it kind of is! As long as you are willing to believe that a Brooklyn everywoman cop looks like this:
Like, sure, Jennifer Lopez. That badge on your belt definitely makes us forget that you’re Jennifer Lopez.
Here was Jennifer Lopez having an impromptu chat with her teenage daughter. Because YUP, Shades of Blue ALSO wanted us to believe that Jennifer Lopez could be the mother of a teenage girl. NICE TRY.
For a minute it appeared as though Jennifer Lopez might actually be serious about her boxing regimen, but her Frederick’s of Hollywood unmentionables did not seem very gym appropriate! Oh, J.Lo.
I’m definitely not saying that glamorous, gorgeous women can’t be Brooklyn cops. I’m merely saying that Jennifer Lopez can’t be a Brooklyn cop. Her Detective Harlee Santos is meant to be a gritty, headstrong, corrupt cop who gets swept up in an FBI operation to root out the even more corrupt cops in her midst (including Ray Liotta), but really she’s just Jennifer Lopez with a frizzy cotton candy hairdo and a cowboy walk. Directed by one of the creators of Homicide: Life on the Street and feeling very much like a brighter-lit network version of The Shield, Shades of Blue desperately wants to be edgy and compelling. On the upside? Story-wise, it kind of is! As long as you are willing to believe that a Brooklyn everywoman cop looks like this:
Like, sure, Jennifer Lopez. That badge on your belt definitely makes us forget that you’re Jennifer Lopez.
Here was Jennifer Lopez having an impromptu chat with her teenage daughter. Because YUP, Shades of Blue ALSO wanted us to believe that Jennifer Lopez could be the mother of a teenage girl. NICE TRY.
For a minute it appeared as though Jennifer Lopez might actually be serious about her boxing regimen, but her Frederick’s of Hollywood unmentionables did not seem very gym appropriate! Oh, J.Lo.
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