Karen Sisco

Karen Sisco

2003
Karen Sisco
Karen Sisco

Karen Sisco

7.2 | en | Drama

As a U.S. Deputy Marshal, based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, Karen must deal with the underbelly of South Beach nightlife and Palm Beach high life while tracking down fugitives. She also struggles to win the respect of her fellow officers. Karen occasionally gets advice from her father, a retired Miami police officer turned private investigator, who is Karen’s confidant, counselor, and confessor.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP10  He Was a Friend of Mine
Apr. 14,2004
He Was a Friend of Mine

Karen goes undercover as an escort, and investigates designer drugs.

EP9  No One's Girl
Apr. 07,2004
No One's Girl

A young girl witnesses the murder of her guardian (a snitch) by a drug dealer, and must be protected by Karen.

EP8  Dog Day Sisco
Mar. 31,2004
Dog Day Sisco

While visiting the bank, Marshall and Karen are taken hostage. Karen and Marshall try to save the situation from the inside, while Karen's boss, Amos Andrews, tries to hold back the FBI. The FBI agent on the scene, Gil Bellows, is a little to eager to storm the bank, which might jeopardize the lives of the hostages.

EP7  Nobody's Perfect
Nov. 12,2003
Nobody's Perfect

Karen is assigned to track down a fugitive accountant on the lam for murder and the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from his high-end fashion boss. Meanwhile, Marshall meets an attractive woman who wants him to investigate her husband's infidelity.

EP6  Dear Derwood
Nov. 05,2003
Dear Derwood

It looks like Karen's budding romance with a sexy Miami Marlins pitcher will never get to third base, as her assignment — to bring in a prison escapee determined to be reunited with his stripper girlfriend — wreaks havoc with her personal life.

EP5  Nostalgia
Oct. 29,2003
Nostalgia

Karen must protect a counterfeiter who claims they went to high school together and appears to be the target of a mob boss. Meanwhile, Marshall's past comes to haunt him when an ex-con decides to settle a very old score.

EP4  Justice
Oct. 22,2003
Justice

Karen reluctantly teams with Konner, a legendary marshal new to the Miami office, to hunt down three parolees who have gone on a crime spree, unaware that the cons — all former gang members — have a link to Konner's past and that he intends to mete out his own deadly brand of justice.

EP3  The One that Got Away
Oct. 15,2003
The One that Got Away

When a suave con artist who bilks women out of their fortunes manages to slip away from Karen the minute he's off the plane, she's humiliated but determined to bring him in, despite the fact the FBI has ordered her off the case. Meanwhile, a former mob accountant suddenly returns from hiding in the witness protection program, putting his — and Karen's — life in jeopardy; and Marshall is unhappy to find that Karen's old boyfriend, a married FBI agent, is back on the scene.

EP2  Dumb Bunnies
Oct. 08,2003
Dumb Bunnies

When Florida's two stupidest cons, the Salchek brothers, escape from prison and steal a baseball worth millions from infamous mob boss Charlie Lucre, Karen turns to their mother, a hapless waitress living in a trailer park, for clues on how to find them before Lucre's hitmen do.

EP1  Blown Away
Oct. 01,2003
Blown Away

An effort to apprehend a fugitive goes wrong, almost putting a bullet through Karen's heart and leaving one man dead. But she's having trouble remembering what happened so she can write a report to satisfy Internal Affairs. Meanwhile, Karen's in for heartache of a different kind when she learns that the good-natured charter fisherman she's dating may actually be a bank robber, at least according to the FBI agents on his trail.

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Released: 2003-10-01 | Released Producted By: Universal Television , Jersey Television Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

As a U.S. Deputy Marshal, based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, Karen must deal with the underbelly of South Beach nightlife and Palm Beach high life while tracking down fugitives. She also struggles to win the respect of her fellow officers. Karen occasionally gets advice from her father, a retired Miami police officer turned private investigator, who is Karen’s confidant, counselor, and confessor.

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Cast

Carla Gugino , Bill Duke , Robert Forster

Director

Jason Smilovic

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Universal Television , Jersey Television

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liquidcelluloid-1 Network: ABC; Genre: Crime/Mystery, Action, Drama; Content Rating: TV-PG (violence and some language); Available: reruns on Sluth; Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 -4); Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season , 10 episodes) In 1998, out-of-the-blue, ABC delivered a criminally unseen and wondrously entertaining little (6 episodes) masterpiece called "Maximum Bob". "Bob" was a flawless translation, a free-roaming piece of quirky TV magic, better than just about every Leonard adaptation big or small screen to date. "Karen Sisco" is the network and producers Danny DeVito and Barry Sonnenfeld's 2nd attempt to wrestle an Elmore Leonard novel onto the small screen and the results this time are not nearly as impressive. "Sisco" spins off "Out of Sight" Federal Marshal Karen Sisco (Carla Gugino, "Spin City") as she tracks down parole jumpers in Miami, Florida.Compared to "Bob", "Sisco" restrains itself into a TV crime/mystery template and for the most part lacks the wild non-linear storytelling and, with the exception of "Dumb Bunnies" (featuring DeVito, Rhea Pearlman, Kevin Dillon, a series of gruff henchmen and a grenade), the quirky hobby pre-occupied characters of a Leonard novel. For such a light, colorful series, "Sisco" remains flat pretty consistently. It is too serious to be quirky and too quirky to be serious, a balance that it never comes to grips with. The mysteries aren't particularly clever, the action routine, the dialog uninspired - although you wouldn't know that just watching Robert Forster who gives a wily performance as Karen's retired father Marshall. Yes, Marshal Marshall Sisco. Credit also goes to Gary Cole and Xander Berkley who guest star in memorable, colorful characters.Propping up the series is Gugino who lends a casual sexiness – that smartly isn't too played up - to Karen's tough-gal attitude. But the show makes the death-blow mistake of under-writing our lead which makes Karen a pretty dry and uninteresting heroine. The only way the show can think to humanize her is to end each episode with a moment of bonding between her and her "daddy". Forster and Gugino sell the hell out of the chemistry but I can't shake the feeling I'm being manipulated into a happy ending for all the families out there. "Sisco" follows "Alias" as another show with a butt-kicking heroine who needs her in-the-business dad's shoulder to lean on.Maybe I'm wrong to be so tough on "Karen Sisco". It isn't bad. It just never revs up. It never quite finds itself, and wasn't on the air long enough to reach the quirky crime series nirvana it should have. I expected so much more and was, personally, profoundly disappointed.* * / 4
skooshie As others have noted in these comments why is it that studio execs keep putting reality show dreck on? I have never watched survivor, the bachelor or any other "reality" show drivel. Since really those shows are for the average person to have their 15 minutes of fame and since most of them are self centered idiots (at least that is what the commercials show them as) why would a rational, thinking person ever watch it. If you want to watch a reality show watch The Soup and you will get the best parts of it anyway. This show was very well put together and if you had watched the Jennifer Lopez/George Clooney vehicle Out of Sight you would have gotten a little bit of background on her character. This could have been an excellent series. This and Ms Gugino's other series Threshold (way, way better than Invasion even though that has William Fichter)I don't get it. Two series that she has been in and both well done and what do the networks do? Please someone slap them for those of us that would like a little bit of thinking behind out entertainment.
sarastro7 After having seen and greatly enjoyed Carla Gugino in various limited parts in relatively minor movies, I was overjoyed to see that she finally got some real recognition and was given her own TV show. And when I saw it, I wasn't disappointed. The show is smart, attractive and funny; clearly aimed at a fairly youthful, intelligent and predominantly male demographic. In short, it's everything a show should be in order to succeed. Only, for some inscrutable reason, it failed. What a great pity. What's wrong with audiences today? In a just world, this show would have rocketed Carla to true stardom.For me, being a huge Carla Gugino fan, watching this show is pure joy. The writers and/or producers clearly adore Carla as much as I do, and put her squarely in the limelight, both in terms of loving camera angles, story and dialog. For someone of Carla's talents and charms, it's long overdue. At least with these 10 episodes, a devoted fan of Carla Gugino can get his fix, losing himself in a witty and charismatic action show captained by one of the dreamiest actresses currently working. What more can anyone ask?
Dinjack What more could I ask for - not only is this show witty, exciting, and well directed, it also has a remarkably hot woman playing the lead role, pushing Enterprise's T'pol off to the side for the finest lady on network TV. Every episode is really a gem, however two so far have stood out as really kickass (the second episode, the one with the two brothers who like Leonard Skinnard, and the one about the guy who keeps breaking out of prison to get back with his stripper girlfriend). Even though Elmore Leonard did little more for the series than invent the main character, the unique touches that are present in every Leonard book are present here. I pray to God this show makes it, because it beats the hell out of most everything else on TV today.