Splitting the attention between so many storylines and people who rarely interact is ambitious, but means that it's easy to lose grip with what's happening, even if what's happening is as horrid as someone getting their ear cut off. Kelsey Grammer plays Chicago mayor Tom Kane. Meanwhile there's a storyline I didn't quite understand about O'Hare airport, a journalist who's determined to get to the bottom of a story about contaminated water, and a gubernatorial race between grizzled incumbent McCall Cullen (Francis Guinan) is battling handsome young hopeful Ben Zajac (Jeff Hephner), who is having an affair with Kane aid Kitty O'Neill (Kathleen Robertson), who spends most of her time explaining stuff or with her top off, or sometimes both.

Their daughter Emma (Hannah Ware) is struggling to keep the clinic she runs afloat and herself away from the drug habit which caused her parents to cut all contact with her.

Kane's wife Meredith (Connie Nielsen) is pursuing her own political agenda, and comes off as a one dimensional ice queen. It's on its secondary storylines that Boss falls down, partly because there are too many of them. He is simultaneously terrifying and unpredictable, yet under it all he also draws our sympathies. Behind the scenes, he has just discovered he has an incurable degenerative illness, one that is already starting to affect his mental faculties, and which will soon begin to have a physical effect too.Ī combination of Shakespearean tragedy and American melodrama, it's Grammer's acting that is the most compelling aspect of Boss. Tom Kane (Grammer) is mayor of Chicago, and rules with an iron fist. This hip retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac is filled with hilariously misguided matchmaking, sweet romance, and a gentle reminder that we should all embrace our flaws.Political intrigue, double crossing, scandal and more converge in Kelsey Grammer's new programme, Boss. For someone so smart, what was she thinking? So when Kristen begs Sarah to help her nab Rock, Sarah does the only thing a best friend can do-she agrees. And when Rock and Kristen stand together, it's like Barbie and Ken come to life. Problem is, her best friend, Kristen, falls for him too. On the first day of senior year, Rock Conway walks into her journalism class and, well, rocks her world.

Sarah's got the best best friend and big goals for print journalism fame. There's just one tiny-all right, enormous-flaw: her nose. She's got killer blue eyes, gorgeous blond hair, and impeccable grades.

Flawless by lara chapman