Jesse Stone

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

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  • Title: Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
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“The cop deserves the benefit of the doubt.”

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Robert B. Parker‘s Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) returned to television this past weekend, but sadly without his author’s voice. Written by Selleck and Michael Brandman Benefit of the Doubt continues to examine the the life of the recovering alcoholic police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts. Although the latest made-for-TV film delivers another strong character-centered story, the script is lacking the flair of Parker’s trademark wit.

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Jesse Stone: Night Passage

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  • Title: Night Passage
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Tom Selleck has made some nice, if quiet, choices over the last few years starring and producing some very good made for TV movies.  The latest is his return as Jesse Stone in Robert B. Parker’s Night Passage the first of Parker’s Jesse Stone series (Selleck starred 2005’s Stone Cold).

Robert B. Parker is best known for his Spenser novels about a wiseass Boston P.I. which became a network show and then a series of television movies with Robert Urich and later Joe Mantegna.  A few years ago Parker started deviating from his Spenser and broadened into characters and new worlds.  One such world involves police officer Jesse Stone in the small New England vacation town called Paradise.

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