Rizzoli & Isles (TV series): Difference between revisions

''Rizzoli & Isles'' is a show on [[TNT]] set in [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] with two of the department's hardest working women cracking the city's most gruesome murders, based on a book series by Tess Gerritsen. These two friends are as different from one another as can be. Jane Rizzoli ([[Law and Order|Angie Harmon]]) is a no-nonsense cop with an attitude and tomboy inclinations. Dr. Maura Isles ([[NCIS|Sasha Alexander]]) is a brilliant though eccentric medical examiner, much more feminine and milder than Jane. As odd of a pairing as they may be, Jane and Maura are close friends who are always there for one another and have each other's back. Great potential to continue passing [[The Bechdel Test]].

 

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* [[Ascended Extra]]/[[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Rizzoli is actually a secondary character in "The Surgeon", the first book in the series, while Isles doesn't exist at all, and author Gerritsen had planned to kill her off before positive reader feedback changed her mind. Similarly, when Isles makes an appearance, she's a minor character until her role enlarges to be almost equal with Rizzoli in most books, or the primary character in several.

** [[Batter Up]]: ...And that would be the aforementioned [[Chekhov's Gun]].

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Rizzoli and Grant.

'''Grant''': You saw me looking, but [[Longing Look|I wasn't looking at your test]]. }}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: According to the show, {{spoiler|many good cops on the Boston Strangler case have died young and/or snapped in an explosive manner}}.

* [[Brains and Brawn]]

* [[Burn the Witch]]: When someone starts murdering members of a coven in "Bloodlines", the first victim is burnt at the stake.

* [[California Doubling]]: The show is so obviously filmed in LA it borders on embarassing.

* [[Call Back]]: Oh, man, "I'm Your Boogey Man" is made of this trope. {{spoiler|Somebody puts a road flare in front of Jane's apartment building, indicative of how she scarred Hoyt in "See One, Do One, Teach One." Later, we find that that somebody is a kidnap victim who Hoyt tortures to the point of suffering Stockholm syndrom (not to mention he killed her abusive husband). Having gotten Frankie, Jr., to fall in love with her, she captures both Rizzoli siblings. While Jane tries to explain to the victim that Hoyt doesn't love her and is just using her to get Jane, she lets her guard down long enough for a struggle to ensue between herself and Frankie, Jr., for the gun. While they are both down on the ground, Frankie, Jr., gets the gun and kills her with two shots to the chest, even though his wrists were duct taped. In "See One, Do One, Teach One," Jane and Hoyt's apprentice were on the ground going for a gun. Jane got to it first and, with her wrists duct taped, she killed the apprentice with two shots to the chest}}.

** [[Like You Would Really Do It|Like They Would Really Do It]]...

* [[Cop and Scientist]]

* [[Da Chief]]: Korsak, though he inspires fear in no one.

* [[The Determinator]]: If the Season 2 premiere is any indication, this trope describes Jane. After watching a soldier get blown up by a car bomb minutes after the soldier was honored for her heroics in Afghanistan, Jane ignores all commands to stay home and nurse her wounds from the Season 1 finale, as well as other roadblocks, to try and solve the case.

{{quote|'''Jane:''' I am NOT running as Lady Puke Gaga!}}

* [[GPS Evidence]]: Maura was able to crack a case by determining the poison used in the murder came from a flower native to Boston. Jane was able to track the killer because the flower was growing in the front yard of someone who was interviewed earlier in the episode.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Rizzoli and Isles, unsurprisingly, although the producers seem happy to [[Fan Yay|milk]] the [[Les Yay]] angle as well.

* [[Hollywood New England]]: Mostly averted, but enter Donnie Wahlberg and you half expect him to say, "Chowdah." The weird part is that he's actually ''from'' Boston, but his regular accent isn't nearly that broad. It's more than made up by the extras, most of whom have very thick Boston accents.

* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Averted, in they're doing a religion that is similar to real voodoo, but not exactly the same. The practitioners perform exorcisms, and Maura says their practices are consistent with Catholicism in the Cape Verde Islands and other West African nations.

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