I just saw Ep1. A cop in Battle Creek is under funded and unappreciated. His dept is over stretched. Instead of new resources his building gets an FBI agent who is the cool clean hero with more media presence.The 2 guys with their different styles deal with unoriginal story lines but America wins in the end and perhaps Battle Creek MI shines a tiny bit brighter.unfortunately the script is unoriginal and the women are characatures (or maybe the acting sucks). They are either 'doe eyed secretary' or 'ambitious bitch'It can't compare with Homeland, How to get away with Murder or any of the shows with women I like. I'm a woman and I'm going to spend my TV time watching show about women. Vera Drake, Scott & Bailey.The more I think about it the more shocked I am that for generations male characters have taken centre stage. Women are more complex, do more work, lead more interesting lives but perhaps male writers don't know the complexities of women.

I first heard about the show in a YouTube video about most anticipated TV shows of 2015. Even then it didn't really appeal to me. The genre, the topic didn't really seem that much interesting. I didn't want to watch it. But my boyfriend was interested enough so I HAD TO watch it. It just confirmed what I already concluded while watching the trailer before. It's a type of a TV show we've all seen too many times before. Typical formula, cheap humor, superficial characterization, lots of clichés... If I wanted to watch shows like these I'd turn on the TV and watch "Law & Order" or something like that, because, honestly, it's not far from it. It's a type of show of a criminal case per episode. Of course, always "cleverly" solved in the end. There's an attempt of a "deeper story" with creating mystery around Milt, but it's all very uninteresting (at least for me it is). I see no Vince Gilligan in it. This is a type of a TV show I like to call TV shows for stupid people - superficial, formulaic, predictable, pathetic. Overall - very boring. 2015 is not a year for these shows anymore. This belongs to the past. We need something more (challenging). Not really worth a watch if you're looking for something new and intelligent. Good thing it got canceled. I couldn't bare watching another season...

Milt Chamberlain (Josh Duhamel) is a charming smart FBI agent set up in the small town of Battle Creek. Russ Agnew (Dean Winters) is a world-weary local cop. He distrusts the slick FBI agent and reluctantly teams up with him. He is secretly in love with the office manager Holly Dale (Aubrey Dollar). Along with his Commander Kim Guziewicz and an assorted rag tag team, they solve local crimes.Created by Vince Gilligan and David Shore, I can certainly see where they were going with this concept. Gilligan quickly left after cashing the cheques. The team never really found the right chemistry. With Russ being such a grump, I think Milt needed to be much happier and funnier. Russ is getting softer which helps a little. The rest of the group is a reasonable fun lot. This needs something special to break it out of its rut and I don't think it found it yet. It's one half season and out.

Battle Creek is a hard show to place. Is it a comedy, is it a drama or is it a procedural cop show? It's a little bit of everything. And it definitely has some flair to it. It's also still refreshing to see a cop show that doesn't take place in a major city, but in a smaller town.The premise of the show is easily it's strongest point. The underfunded police of Battle Creek gets support from the tech-smart FBI. Add two completely different characters in the mix and it seems you might have a nice buddy-cop-drama. Nothing of that all the characters of Josh Duhamel (FBI-agent Milt Chamberlain) and Dean Winters (detective Russ Agnew) are constantly trying to out do each other. Especially Agnew who sees the arrival of Chamberlain as a treat to his environment tries to outsmart the FBI. The acting from both Winters and Duhamel are right on the spot. You also don't really feel like choosing sides since both Agnew and Chamberlain are likable guys. The other cast members are more often then not fillers and the comedic relief. Only Aubrey Dollar stands out as Holly Dale, the only who's able to keep Agnew on the straight path. It helps that she serves as the potential love interest of Agnew.The stories are once again, like the show fresh. It's easy to write stories about mobsters or rival gangs. But did we ever see a crime- story about a maple syrup-gang. Or that the house of the captain goes up in flames in the first few episodes. Not much shows try to pull that off. Does it have some minus-points? Well perhaps not all of the supporting characters are that great. I already mentioned Aubrey Dollar, she's great. And both Kal Penn and Grapevine are a good add to the mix. But the characters of Liza Lapira and Damon Herriman still feel a bit flat. Maybe they get worked out better in the future. But for now I feel like they are holding the show a bit back to step it up just a notch. I gave the show a chance. I think anyone who's look for a fresh new cop-show mixed with a bit a drama and comedy should watch this. So to end with the question I start what genre is it? It's created a new own genre: a battle creek.