Series premiere talkback: ‘Battle Creek’

I published my review of CBS' “Battle Creek” on Friday. Now it's your turn. For those of you who tuned in tonight, what did you think? Did the pilot – whose script went largely unchanged from the version Vince Gilligan wrote a dozen years ago – feel like the work of the man who created “Breaking Bad,” and/or who wrote some of the best “X-Files” episodes ever? Did you enjoy the rivalry between Dean Winters and Josh Duhamel? Did you want more from all the second and third banana Battle Creek cops? And will you watch again?

Have at it. For what it's worth, the voice of the show doesn't change radically in the other episodes, even though David Shore is running things while Gilligan is otherwise occupied with “Better Call Saul,” and there's also the sort of improvement you like to see in a new show as the creative team gets used to the actors and the characters and figures out their strengths and weaknesses.

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