White Collar: Season 5

Everyone who complains about TV shows with too much blood, gore, and explicit sex needs to watch White Collar. Families have adored all six seasons of this amazing show: the plots are imaginative and usually solved with brains rather than brawn. The main characters become beloved members of one's family. Their interactions with each other are priceless: funny, poignant, and loving. The actors who play these characters are perfect fits for their character: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Tiffany Thiesen, Marsha Thomason, and Sherif Atkins are all fine actors. Another character in White Collar is the City of New York, lovingly filmed in beautiful and interesting locations throughout Manhattan. White Collar, Season Five, can be watched on its own, but I predict if you do watch it, you will be ordering the other seasons just because the show is so good.

White Collar has a strong ensemble case and clever plot and dialogue. The story line particular to Season 5 is getting into "jump the shark" territory, but it's still satisfying fun. I think the producers have made a good decision to end the story line after season 6 - there are only so many cons, and threats of return to prison, and the inevitable involvement of family and friends into criminal plots that one can watch. The bottom line is that I looked forward to each episode, enjoyed the unexpected ( but expected) twists, and never felt that my time was wasted in watching.One other thing the writers have done was to create thoroughly likable characters. Unlike Psych or Scrubs, I never felt the need to push a pie into any of the White Collar characters faces!

So I am an avid White Collar watcher. First off, I need to warn, I'm a southern mother with pretty high moral standards for my family and myself. Here are my thoughts...In the first 3 seasons the episodes were clean (no profanity, no nudity, some minor insinuations, but clean for the most part) and engaging. This was not one of Tiffani Thiessen's (Elizabeth Burke) stronger acting abilities, but she gets better in season 4 and 5.Season 4, Tiffani's (Elizabeth Burke) acting improved drastically. Not sure why this show doesn't get more followers. It's really fantastic.Season 5, disappointing to see the increasing instances of nudity (or insinuations of nudity). It really isn't necessary and kind of awkward at times. But the story line is still engaging. All-in-all, I still love the show, but I'd like to watch it with my family, but can't now with the increasing amounts of nudity (or insinuations thereof.)

I love this show. The struggle that Neal goes through between his criminal tendencies and his desire to play it straight for Peter are difficult. Also difficult is Peter' genuine affectionate for Neal warring with his need not to cross a line of trusting a criminal informant. Having worked with criminals in the past, I recognize Peter's dilemma. It is deadly to cross that boundary. Peter is often hurtful to Neal, thereby reinforcing Neal's sociapathy and his relationship with Mozzie. Mozzie is a wonderful character, probably with an autistic spectrum disorder, but only too willing to pull Neal over to the dark side. Mozzie is a sympathetic character and also highlights the boundary issues. Add to that all the tech and you've got a winner. It also doesn't hurt that Neal is astounding eye candy and one roots for him in his every endeavor, straight or criminal. Obviously a reprise of "To Catch Thief, first with Cary Grant in a major motion picture and then with Robert Wagner on TV in the 70's.The tech updates are fascinating (if a little scary). This show is special on many levels. I hop to watch it for many more years.

We have watched the whole package -- Season 1 through 5 and have loved every minuite. This is a great program and my husband and I are so sad to be at the end of it. We did read that there will be a Season 6 but that airs on regular TV (weekly episodes and all the commercials) and starts November 5th. Don't know what channel though. We have enjoyed watching the team of White Collar working together through each case and some of the situations are quite funny. It is refreshing to see a program than doesn't have sex scenes in every episode. That's why we hate watching regular TV - you can't watch with your kids because of all the bedroom scenes and trashy sex. Thank you White Collar producers for giving us a program that the whole family can watch and that is very entertaining -- has us grabbing the remove for each episode. Never boring. There are just a few bed scenes but not graphic. We look forward to Season 6.

Brilliant, funny, classy, sexy, mysterious. This FBI show was and is still the best in its genre and series on TV. We fell in love with the main characters and were super sad when the final season. In classic form they ended it perfectly. Always captivating and never a disappointment. The cast is brilliant. The writing excellent. It plays to the intellectual with side jokes, riddles and light sarcasms. Best series ever. Madam Secretary quality but never an expected episode scene. Here you have originality that beats all other shows. A total joy.