Jim, I wholeheartedly agree with what you are saying. I wander who came up with the idea to have separate stories for the leads. I hope if it is the last season they at least solve this asinine story and go out on a high note.

I’m also very serious about wondering how much Hawley is really invested in this show any longer since ABC made the mistake of giving him a new show for next fall.

That means that we will see very little of the true strength of the show then, in my opinion. I think that H&W have completely lost their way in terms of understanding what made the show great. It was the interaction of the two leads first and then the same for the ensemble. They have effectively broken both of those things this year and are so enamored of what they have created that they won’t even try to fix it because they refuse to recognize the inherent flaws in there basically being no screen time devoted to the full team interacting. When is the last time Lanie made any real kind of appearance? My biggest question is that if in fact they’ve guaranteed that this is the last season of the show will they keep up this asinine story line for the rest of the season, thus guaranteeing that we will never see any episodes with the couple truly back together and working together without the juggling required because of a fake separation and/or dumb excuses for a PI to be involved in NYPD cases?

I call them back together personally just because privately, they are. My feeling is that they’ll keep up appearances for a while.

Thanks

Not necessarily, but there may not be a ton of screen time of her with the team.