AV Club has a very honest and interesting review of the premier.
TNT’s been pimping the show as a “womance” (which is an awful word that must be killed immediately), and that’s not really far off the mark. I joked some last year about how the show often seemed to be pushing the idea of the title characters as lesbians, but not really, and the show is now all but cheekily acknowledging this. (One of the early scenes in tonight’s episode features Isles telling Rizzoli how hot she looks.) Now, there are plenty of shows where the writers offer up scenes like this that don’t play as borderline romances, but Rizzoli & Isles does because Harmon and Alexander have absolutely fantastic chemistry. Every scene between the two crackles, and it crackles with that borderline romantic tension. The show writes to this and the network promotes it because it’s by far the best thing the show has going for it, and in the scenes that had nothing to do with crime-solving and were just about Rizzoli and Isles futzing around and doing weird shit together, I found myself rather enjoying the show.
Check out the rest of it here. It's well worth the read.
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