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But week after week, Dylan and Andy share screen time with Dylan's partner, Detective Lizzie Needham (Bojana Novakovic), who's embroiled in a steamy secret affair with black-ops fixer Julian Cousins (former Lost star Naveen Andrews), and they get to have sex scenes and deep, long romantic kisses, whereas Dylan and Andy are lucky to share a quick buss on the lips in passing, or a tender hand placed briefly on a shoulder. The contrast between the way the show treats straight and gay couples was highlighted strikingly in the season-two premiere, which crosscut between Lizzie and Julian's sex scene and post-coital pillow talk, and Dylan and Andy having a plain conversation at bedtime, both of them fully dressed, Andy standing in the doorway brushing his teeth. One could rationalize this as a way of setting up the affair that Dylan's probably going to have, but only if you fail to notice that the characters were barely allowed to touch each other prior to that. Seriously, folks: This is Alan Freakin' Cumming we're talking about here, a playful imp with ambidextrous suggestive eyebrows, somebody so deliciously open in terms of his sexual bandwidth that you can believe that his characters exist at any point on the continuum of attraction (or, in the case of his magnificent turn as the Emcee in Cabaret, on all points at once).
EPISODE 7 After Hours Dylan and Lizzie go undercover in New York's erotic underworld when they investigate the murder of a high-powered public relations rep. Also, a glamorous love from Julian's comes back into his life with a proposal he can't resist. EPISODE 8 Go Figure Dylan and Lizzie work to uncover why an Olympic-hopeful figure skater is killed while on the ice. Also, Ryan's case heats up and lands him and Dylan in unusual circumstances and Julian comes to understand why an old acquaintance has returned to New York. EPISODE 9 Manhunt It's all hands on deck to track down the Sleeping Beauty Killer when Ryan and Dylan's biggest lead in the case takes them to a face off aboard a ship. Also, Dylan receives troubling news from his father. EPISODE 10 Trust Issues Dylan and Lizzie investigate deaths of three family members who were also business partners in a craft brewery. Also, Andy's legal expertise is needed when he and Dylan confront an issue in their adoption process, and Lizzie learns some hard truths about Julian's past.
Also, with Dylan's help, Lizzie confronts some of her past childhood demons, and a major advancement presents itself in Dylan and Andy's adoption search. EPISODE 4 Big Splash A Sweet 16 celebration turns into a crime scene when the birthday girl's stepmother falls to her death and the guests and staff are put under a microscope by the NYPD. Also, Ryan finds a new lead in his investigation, and Lizzie receives some positive news at the precinct. EPISODE 5 Ancient History Dylan and Lizzie investigate the case of a prominent divorce lawyer who is found murdered in a bizarre ritual. Also, Dylan and Andy hit a bump in their adoption process; Lizzie and Julian reach a tough point in their relationship; and Ryan Stock's serial killer case escalates. EPISODE 6 One-of-a-Kind Dylan and Lizzie investigate when a street artist's work is found with a victim's body in the middle of it. Also, Ryan catches a suspect in the Sleeping Beauty Killer investigation and Dylan's new book editor, Harry Kassabian (Eric Bogosian), pays him a visit.
Dylan is married to a sweet and handsome younger man named Andy (Daniel Ings), but they demonstrate physical affection so rarely, even behind closed doors, that you'd think you were watching a TV show time-warped in from 1955, when heterosexual married couples had to sleep in separate beds. The show seems to be setting Dylan up for an affair with an even younger, hunkier man, visiting Nebraska homicide detective Ryan Stock (Travis Van Winkle). But the show's track record of generating sexual chemistry between Dylan and any other man, whether it's his partner or somebody he's wryly bantering with while investigating a case, is so dismal that it's hard to imagine how this thread might satisfyingly play out. Daniel Ings and Alan Cumming in Instinct. Photo: Linda Källérus/CBS If Instinct had just decided to be a chaste show and turned that into a stylistic choice, its timidity about Dylan's sexuality would be easier to rationalize. This same network has gotten great mileage out of a platonic romance on the long-running Sherlock Holmes update Elementary.
Behind that streaming paywall, the network has a solid track record nurturing shows that would probably be considered too edgy for the mothership network — including The Good Fight and Star Trek: Discovery — and there's no reason to think Instinct couldn't be another one. This is not a highly rated show, and it is currently being burned off during the summer, so chances of a third season on CBS are iffy anyway. But the network wouldn't have renewed it in the first place if key executives didn't believe it had potential. Why not contrive a set of circumstances that might allow the people who make the show to realize it? That's the thing about instinct: If you can't or won't follow it, it will never be of use to you. Memo to CBS: Let Alan Cumming Be Alan Cumming!
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