In the original, the characters are indeed partially relatively clichéd, but it's still fun to watch the series. When the main characters are, however Suspect Behaviour completely covered. The team acts thrown together. Actually only solves Cooper cases on the team must be appropriate only if one of the partly misplaced special skills required. In each episode can wait for you, that Cooper stares in front of him and then says, "Now I know who it was." That could make Colombo so, but in a series about a team that's just pretty stupid.
