Unlike Inquest, creator Haddock has sole writing credit for all of the first season's episodes - it's clearly a personal project for him - while the directors' list includes Steven Surjik, Inquest lead Nicholas Campbell, Tracey and the inimitable Stuart Margolin. The series even casts the last (best known as the weaselly snitch Angel on the old Rockford Files) as a former American agent turned free-lance bounty hunger: an amusing casting choice. As a scriptwriter, Haddock can occasionally toss an overly didactic speech to one of his characters (Cassini's Ronnie is especially prone to theme-bearing philosophizing), but he's deft at catching duplicitous backroom dealmaking. Perhaps it's from all those years dealing with Canadian and American teevee execs.
Intelligence's first season ends on a cliffhanger, so hopefully the set will do well enough for Acorn to put out the second season. I also read that Haddock has been in negotiations with Fox to bring a re-shot version of the show to American television. I'd like to think that could be a positive step for those wanting to know what happens next, but given Fox's propensity for screwing up so many beloved series in the past, I'm not all that optimistic.
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