Obey Zolac!

Yeah, I'm never quite sure whether to recommend White Collar to anyone, really, although I've got a few friends who adore it as much as I do, and the others at least enjoy it enough to want to watch all the episodes. I don't think I know anyone who's watched it who's disliked it, but... there's nothing really special about it on paper. It's your basic crime show formula. It's not like Life on Mars, which is Crime Show Formula + Crazy Weird Bizarre Cracky Unique Twist, or Luther which is... Sort Of Crime Show Formula And Sort Of Not In A Way That Is Hard To Describe Especially Without Spoilers. It's just... Crime Fighting Unit Plus Specialist, With Plot, and in this case the Specialist is a con man/forger/art thief/etc CI. What makes it special to me is the characters and the character interactions... something about Neal and Peter and Elizabeth and Mozzie and June (and everyone else, but them especially) just... clicked with me, right off the bat. And I think Matt Bomer is adorable, and I think Neal Caffrey is adorable and the show is full of joyful heisting and anti-heisting and shenanigans and hilarity plus also angst and bromance and... I dunno, I just really enjoy it for some reason.