This Is Your Next Must-Watch If You Like Law & Order, But Got Tired Of It

Summary:

• Almost all the procedural dramas like Law & Order usually follow the same and very familiar plot pattern which usually concerns mostly the main investigator’s image — but some recent releases may have proven that this pattern has already reached its limit.
• The CBS’ brand new action drama Tracker debunks the hackneyed image of an investigator who this time is put in completely different circumstances.
• The show also explores the main character’s complex inner world which could have resulted in his choice of a very specific job.

The mystery that shrouded stories told in procedural dramas like Law & Order has always been a key element that kept the viewers close to their screens waiting for another crime to be brilliantly solved.

And though throughout the years of the genre’s existence such kind of plot has become a bit trite, its popularity never fell victim to other hyping storylines — but a slight change of shape has surely done a good thing for crime-coded series.

One of CBS' most recent hits, an action drama show Tracker, comes as a striking example of the fact that the story can take a drastically different turn if just one element from the plot gets changed for something else.

Tracker’s storyline revolves around Colter Shaw whose incredible talent for tracking people or things (in a good way) could’ve easily won him a generously paid job in the police, but he sticks to his lone wolf status helping people across the country to find what or who they lost for reward money.

Though Tracker follows the same investigative pattern, it nonetheless takes a completely different take on the matter putting in its center a character who has no connection to the police whatsoever, yet he’s the one to offer an illegal helping hand to those who the classic police would have never come to.

Thus Tracker leaves the whole police thing entirely behind proving that the shows don’t need to stick to it when demonstrating someone who’s just willing to help.

Tracker’s Colter Shaw, however, isn’t that simple as he may seem at first. Portrayed by This Is Us’ star Justin Hartley, the character doesn’t need too much time to unveil his complex personality, many of the aspects of which were triggered directly by his troubled past.

Even though the viewers don’t know all the details yet and some other ghosts from Shaw’s past will definitely show up later, his emotional involvement in everything that he gets to investigate is yet another trait that sets him apart from all the classic cops in TV shows.

Judging by all the complexity of a seemingly plain plot, Tracker’s season 2 will also have a lot to reveal about Shaw’s past and present. Meanwhile the show’s first season is almost over with the final episode being released on April 28.