“White Collar” (Premiering on Friday, 10/23, 10/9 central) on the USA network is a high concept of the “Buddy Mystery-Comedy.”
In order to solve the hardest crimes you hire the smartest criminal.
Rakish con man Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer, formerly a rogue spy on “Chuck”) teams with straitlaced, FBI agent, Peter Burke (TV veteran Tim DeKay, the perfect foil) to solve upscale crimes. Neil is Pete’s will-work-for -freedom prisoner, indentured to the FBI agent for as long as he can lend his uncanny expertise to crack “tough cases.”
This show is “It Takes a Thief,” (which had the same premise) gussied up with metropolitan panache and tongue so firmly in cheek you don’t even blink when Neal makes fast friends with rich widow Diahann Carroll (in whose estate he lives in) and later bonds with Peter’s adoring wife (Tiffani Thiessen, adding to the show’s fantasy quotient.
“White Collar” is very “Thomas Crown Affair’ meets ‘48 Hrs.,’ and I love those kinds of movies.” adds Thiessen.
Neil has a romantic back story, a lost love he obsesses over, and an eccentric pal (“Sex and the City’s” Willie Garson) with underworld contacts that come in handy. But this is basically the Neal-and-Peter show, and, as odd couples go, they’ll nicely fill the void now that “Psych’s” Shawn and Gus are on hiatus.
This show is all about breezy escapist capers, a great “comfort zone” that the USA network is known for.
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