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''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.
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* [[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.
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* [[Heroic Dimples]]: The eponymous leading duo.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Rizzoli and Isles, unsurprisingly, although the producers seem happy to [[Fan Yay|milk]] the [[Les Yay]] angle as well.
* [[Hide Your Pregnancy]]: Sasha Alexander is pregnant with her second child{{when}}. This is expected to happen during season one, but she's delivering during the hiatus before filming for season two starts. Though sometimes, they aren't doing much to hide it. For "I Kissed A Girl", Maura was in baggy shirts or scrubs for half the episode and skintight outfits for the other half.
* [[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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