No ifs, ands, or buys... "Mercury Retrograde" was bad, really bad. After the not-so-good-but-not-terrible pilot, I was planning on watching the show during the summer. Now, I'm reconsidering that decision. The dialogue is exceedingly cheesy and it seemed like every cop trope was thrown in the episodes.
There was the typical police car ending with the criminal flipping over the police car, banging the shoulder into the solid door, renegade cop, trusting the drunk guy who happens to have gone to his wife's funeral that morning, and last but not least, the almost kiss.
Score: 4.5/10