#wild cards cw

[peeta-mellark]

WILD CARDS 1x03 "Howl to Get Away with Murder"

[skipperdani]

So this fandom is small, but if anyone wants to write a fic where Ellis is a hockey player that would be cool. When I look at Giacomo that's all I see. Canon or AU, I don't care. Maybe he has to go undercover on a case or it's his secret hobby? Max could be a fan, work for the hockey team, an actress and they get paired up in a fake relationship?? Choice is yours.

[disappearinginq]

I started watching a new CW show on a whim, and I am pleasantly surprised - Wild Cards. It has a lot of fun tropes used well between the two main characters Max and Ellis and it takes place in Canada - I would say which city, except I don't know skylines that well, but it has a water front, and I'm just going to say Vancouver or Toronto because those cities seem like the US's versions of NYC and LA - any and all shows take place in or around them.

Anyway. Ellis is the Grumpy and Tall and Max is the Happy and Smol of the duo - Ellis is a disgraced police officer who got bumped from detective to marine patrol, and Max is a con artist and thief. It's very much reminding me of White Collar, and they wind up having to work together because she helps him out solving a high profile crime. Because of their success, brass makes them an offer - if they can work together, they'll reinstate Ellis as a detective, and Max stays out of prison.

Admittedly, we are 1 episode in, but I CARE NOT. Things that I love in no particular order:

Max is not a male written character with a female cast in the role. She is fun and bubbly and charming and sweet and relies heavily on the fact that all of these things help distract marks, and lets her get out of a lot of trouble. Because she's so friendly and nice, she gets people almost immediately at ease - even people she's been known to scam like her. The people who arrest her like her. The cops in the bullpen like her. Even Ellis, who doesn't seem to like anyone at all, begrudgingly respects her.

Ellis is grumpy, and for a good reason. Actually, a couple good reasons. But instead of him being the only honest cop in a group of corrupt ones, he's the one suspected to be a dirty cop from an undercover gig, which went badly, and why he got busted down to marine patrol.

Zero Daddy issues for Max. Again, I admit, it's been one episode, BUT she visits him twice in prison (he's also criminally inclined) and he is more than happy to help her out, and that includes finding out Ellis's background to make sure she's not in more trouble than she thinks she is. Prison sentence aside, it seems like a solid Father/Daughter relationship (though it does make me think of the skit "I would be proud of my daughter no matter what. She could be a serial killer - "nine victims in total" - "excuse me? Nine that you know of").

Even though Ellis is cranky, he covers for Max even though it gets him in trouble instead of her in front of his superiors and his co-workers. He also just rolls with whatever bizarre scenario she's come up with for their cover - "I'm a Russian princess, and you're my pretty but clueless boy toy/goat yoga instructor" and the most he'll do is make a face, and then commit to the part.

Even though I am 100% positive this is going to be a romance between Ellis and Max, they're starting off with Mutual Respect for one another as people rather than just finding each other hot. I think Max looks at Ellis like "this is my poor little meow meow doom cloud " and Ellis is like "this is my emotional support extrovert." [two of my other favorite tropes]

They use a lot of tropes well - Ray of Sunshine and Grumpy Cat partners, Criminal and Cop as Partners, Criminal with Heart of Gold, Hidden Emotional Injury, Opposites Attract, etc.

Anyway - police procedural mixed with White Collar vibes. So far, recommend.

[shelbbswrites]

I loved everything about the Wild Cards season finale.

“Romancing the Egg” is an action-packed romantic drama fit for the small screen with electric Ellimax chemistry that ties it all together.

Here's my 4⭐️ review, and if you want to support it on Twitter, please click this link.

[thatiranianphantom]

Okay, yeah, I'm gonna say it.

Wild Cards. I mean, it's a CW show, so we expect little, but I think somehow, I still expected too much.

So anyway, thoughts be under the cut. Just my thoughts, to be fair. If you have different ones, that's cool.

(And my friend, if you click that cut, you know what you're getting into!)

It just feels like....they threw in a bunch of the most typical "case of the week" cliches that usually would work but just...don't?

The characters are flat as HELL. Every single character has 1 (1) personality trait. The only reason Max stands out at all is because the rest of them have the affect of a government office receptionist.

The stories are so instantly forgettable. Like I've watched all 6 currently out episodes to give it a fair chance and frequently forgot what was happening halfway through, because it was just so inconsequential.

IT. IS. SO. BORING. See above point, but at least in Riverdale, you were entertained, last three seasons aside. This show...it's the kind of thing you'd only keep on if you didn't have a remote in reach. The stories are so completely predictable that I feel like one of my preschoolers could map it out.

The case of the week format. Look, it is SO possible to do the case of the week stuff and get you invested in the story and the characters, even if they only appear for one episode. Think of Fish in Wynonna Earp. Chelsea Cole and her mom in Bones. So many examples and yet the stories in all six episodes were just - I don't understand why I am supposed to care about these randos?

The acting. God, it's so bad. I have seen Giacomo do good stuff on Grey's but here he's just as flat as everyone else, with a profoundly uninteresting character to boot. And Vanessa uses absolutely zero inflection in her tone and no facial expressions? The last episode where she was discussing her mother should have been an emotional scene but there was so little emotion in her voice? Compare it to ND where Nancy talks to Birdie about being something more than just a girl who survived a tragedy, and you can hear the emotion in her voice.

I am so confused by how they're presenting Max? They want us to think of her as a genius mastermind criminal who regularly scams people and also a benevolent innocent lil baby and how dare people suggest she may not be trustworthy? She isn't a cop, she's a criminal! This is the entire premise.

They are clearly using all the cliches - the Not Like Other Girls, the Wisecracking Group of Sidekicks, the Unconventional But Effective Methods, the Hidden Emotional Trauma, and of course, the Will They Won't They. But the thing is, there's so little character there, I don't care if they will or won't? Again, it feels like they are throwing in what should be all successful tropes, but they don't hit at all?

Also, before anyone says it, yes I realize they are only six episodes in. But tbh, in all the shows I like, by the 6th episode the plot and characters were quite well established. I don't think I can drag myself through another episode of this show.

[wildflowerswildhorses]

So um, while I was kind of hesitant because it is a CW show, I started watching Wild Cards, and I don't hate it? I love me a good cop/consultant show

and the Bones and Castle name drop in 2024???

[cherishingstydia]

I don’t know how much crossover there is with buddie shippers and people who watch wild cards but I’m feeling emotional.

Spoilers for 1x09 of Wild cards.

Ellis literally got shot, Max ran towards the gunfire and then there was talk about having each others backs. Hello?? Buddie😭

[windshield91]

I'm enjoying all these new canadian shows. They're quite different, it is refreshing.They're mostly short-lived, which is a plus because the chance of getting bored or recycling stories are slim. One of my favourite shows of all times is "Flashpoint" , I really hope for a reboot.

1. Skymed

" The North challenges people Crys. Makes them grow. And it's not always pleasant, but you gotta give them the room to do that growing."

- The pilots are barely represented. I love small town shows. Even if my favourite character is coupled with my most hated character. And the cheating in this show is something else like a constant plot. But friendships are amazing.

2. Sight unseen

" Think of this as a chance to explore a new world. There are so many ways to navigate, but first, you need to understand the basics."

- It's the first show I watch with visual impairment being prominent. It's nice casting two actresses have their own experience with it, showing it's not just fiction. And Sunny's plot is integrating.

3. Wild cards

"We are like Bones and that dude from buffy, Castle and that hot girl."

- I miss these kind of shows.

4. Transplant (4 seasons)

"All of that to make yourself feel better about ruining the one good thing you had going on here"

- The show name being represented through the group literally and figuratively was a beautiful concept. And for once, romance isn't the main plot.

[cwladiesdaily]

i do think it's pretty cool and neat that vanessa morgan will be in a new show wild cards but i just don't like the fact that her character is beat for beat a copy of my favorite actor atticus mitchell's character JB Cox in hulu's the hardy boys like actually same character personality and everything with both being a con artist/thief like to me it just feels like a rip off since the hulu show came out first but who knows maybe it's just common for tv shows to have the same character types as other ones plus the two of them worked on a supernatural type show together when they were younger so that could be another reason like the people working on wild cards saw it and were like hey we love that type of character let's just make another one

I guess we will have to wait and see what she does with this character and if you'll still be able to enjoy it!

[bonobochick]

Cole & Max in Wild Cards ep 1x01. 😍 😍

[axelwolf8109]

PLEASE CW don't fuck this show up

[skipperdani]

I know he's not in many scenes, but there's a severe lack of Marc content. I need his cute face plastered all over this website.

[blogger360ncislarules]

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[shelbbswrites]

Reviewing Wild Cards has become one of my favorite parts of the week.

I have the most fun writing about this show and Ellimax. “Strangers on a Wave,” which causes quite the splash, is no different.

Here's my review!

[thatiranianphantom]

Okay, I've finished the entirety of S1 of Wild Cards.

Did it get better, you ask?

I mean....it got slightly less boring? Like the tiniest of upticks, and only because the ridiculousness got bumped up hard.

Also just:

The characters are virtually identical to their episode 1 selves. We could make the argument (the show certainly tried to) that Max and Ellis were changed by each other, but even after demonstrating slightly more care for each other, they still remain exactly the same? They don't even care enough not to con each other?

The secret husband was hella hot. That's basically all I have to say about him.

The acting remained bottom of the barrel awful, and that in itself is kinda weird, because I've seen Giacomo do decent acting on Grey's.

The side characters remained far more interesting and well-acted then the leads.

You can tell the actors know how....gentle this entertainment is in interviews. They say it nicely, but they know.

They NEED to decide how we are meant to see these people, particularly Max and her dad. That plotline in the finale was just...I was aghast. Was Max legitimately trying to argue her father shouldn't be in prison? That it was some grand miscarriage of justice that he was in prison? The lifelong criminal? Who on his two days out immediately wanted to commit more crimes? Who willingly agreed to something he knew was a crime and got caught? It's deeply unfair that this guy is in prison?

Max should be in jail too! She conned an entire police department! Like this is Riverdaleian logic!

Once again, I am going to stress that "quirky" does not equal an entire personality. Similarly, "by the book" does not count as an entire personality. But for the two leads, I guess it does.

10 full episodes later and Giacomo has still not gotten to speak Italian. I view this as a personal offense. At least it'd liven this up a bit.

[gloryandthedream]

Shoutout to Wild Cards (1x09) for shooting Ellis (the worlds kindest handsomest man) in the vest this week and making Max (girl’s girl with trust issues) run into danger and cry unashamedly because she thought he was dead.

Because these are the dynamics I CRAVE 👏🫶🏻