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So season 4 opens with an excellent episode , the murder mystery really is very good . However it is not all good news . Yes even after three complete seasons the producers have decided to stick with Rusty . The most awful character in TV history is still here , and unlikely as it seems he has actually got even more obnoxious , selfish , petulant and arrogant. The slight saving grace he once had - we as the audience assumed he was mentally retarded - has also been blown completely out of the water. Apparently he's not very very stupid , no he actually graduated from High School and is now in college not remedial classes as we suspected. Bizarrely he's now a fully fledged reporter despite showing no previous interest and he claims to be better than all the other reporters on the staff after one day . I have this terrible feeling of dread that the producers are going to make us endure Rusty for the entire run of this otherwise excellent show ,

I loved The Closer and I wanted to love Major Crimes and I would have done if it had not have been for Rusty . Without a shadow of a doubt the most irritating character in the whole history of television. Hearing that theme music is exciting and getting ready to the opening credits is spine tingling, but then something awful happens . We are confronted with the words " Graham Patrick Martin " on our screens. Our hearts sink . Once again the makers have failed in their duty to save the audience from the pure torture of Rusty . It seems obvious to ask " How could the producers not know how vomit inducing this character is? " . The answer is of course they did know , the only reasonable explanation is the producers deliberately tanked their own show. Maybe if they had given him three or four episodes then had him murdered by Stroh , the audience would have been okay with the dreadful error of ever having him on the show . But no we were tortured throughout the whole entire run . We did not even get a pay off of seeing him tortured the way we were at the end as he apparently lived happily ever after . Maybe the producers were angry at Kyra for leaving or perhaps they were angry at the network but to take it out on the audience by making us endure Rusty is an outrage. The tragedy is this could have been one of the all time great shows , the rest of the cast are excellent, the weekly whodunnit is normally of a very high standard . But the show is almost unwatchable because of Rusty .

After the original, one of the greatest sitcoms of all time , it was always going to be a tough gig to reboot. But evidently the producers thought they could do it . They were very , very wrong . This has to go down as one of the biggest turkeys of all time . There are no laughs whatsoever. Puerile " jokes " that would not appeal to small children and situations so contrived that they may as well have signposts on them . This has become little more than cheap Whitehall farce . How on earth this hokum got recommissioned is baffling, presumably to enhance Kelsey Grammer's pension fund is the only possible answer. It is so unremittingly awful it's actually in danger of trashing the original. Please either cancel this show or get much , much better.