'Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost' Takes a Dark Turn

"Tom Selleck keeps getting better as Jesse Stone, the unfairly defrocked police chief of Paradise, Mass.," wrote the NY Daily News's TV critic David Hinckley in a review of the television show, which aired tonight.

I think Selleck keeps getting better at everything he does, and I still wish that the show Las Vegas had survived at least one more season, with ol' Tom at the helm of the Montecito. But we will have Blue Bloods, at least another season (see below). And, of course, the Jesse Stone TV films.

Hinckley continued:


So it's a pleasure to welcome him back in 'Innocents Lost,' the seventh film in the Jesse Stone series based on Robert B. Parker novels. It's also a nice touch that it arrives the same week CBS told Selleck his day cop job, as New York Police Commissioner Frank Reagan on 'Blue Bloods,' will be back for a second season.


Viewers might want to know, however, that 'Innocents Lost' takes a darker turn than some earlier Stone flicks. There are points when the dreary, rainy gloom presses down on the viewer as it presses down on Jesse, who doesn't always win his struggle against the emptiness he feels after being forced out of the job he does better than anyone else.


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