White Collar: Season 3, Episode 13 “Neighborhood Watch” (B-)
So we’re not back to Keller territory, but this episode was far too light for my tastes. Elizabeth isn’t necessarily a bad character, but I just wish she was a bit more serious than she’s been in recent weeks. Neal was always the more interesting of the two leads, and I enjoyed the dynamic between him and Peter, and also how both he and Mozzie interacted with Elizabeth. What’s happening here, however, is that she’s becoming too central a player, utilized in scenes where she needn’t be. I was pleased to see Joe Manganiello, best known as Alcide on “True Blood,” as bad guy Ben in this hour, but apart from intimidating Elizabeth in her own home after noticing that her kitchen was not in fact being remodeled, he didn’t have all that much to do. This show does best with capers, and while this installment did permit Elizabeth and Mozzie to pose as FBI agents, it was just a bit too unreliable and unfocused as a whole. The device of Elizabeth overhearing a crime on the police scanner that Peter just happened to leave on also felt forced, and this show shouldn’t need to resort to such familiar setups. I’ll point out as I did a while ago that Neal isn’t being too smart about all the criminals he’s conning, setting himself up to get seriously hurt if any one of the many people he’s put away by pretending he’s just like them and then selling them out to the FBI ever gets out of prison.
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