Dr. Dylan Reinhart is a former CIA operative who retired and put himself to academic pasture when he fell in love and got married. When a serial killer takes inspiration from his book on abnormal behaviour, he finds himself back in the field; this time with paired with Elizabeth Needham, an NYPD detective who finds it difficult to collaborate since the death of her partner cum fiancé. Reinhart enjoys the experience and becomes a consultant for the NYPD, working with Needham, and we are off for 24 episodes (two series) of police procedural with a psychopathic twist. I'm only three episodes in of Instinct, but the emerging pattern seems to be that the perp appears early on as a very minor character, and you can spot them a mile off. So far, so formulaic. What is less formulaic is that Reinhart and Needham like each other pretty much from the get go, when we are usually presented with a sometimes tedious game of the odd couple begrudgingly learning to respect and like each oth...
life, with a pink seasoning; an LGBT perspective.