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Names that come attached to the two-hour pilot: Anthony Minghella, Richard Curtis, Sydney Pollack and Harvey Weinstein, to name a few. Otherwise, it’s difficult to see what HBO saw in “Agency.” Perhaps HBO was blinded by the sheer volume of boldface producer “Agency” is so suffused with a sweetness and light uncharacteristic of HBO that it is tempting to chalk up the programming strategy to counterintuitive genius: With every channel chasing the gritty gravitas that is HBO’s trademark, why not invade the family-friendly territory they’ve all vacated? Scott boasts an accent convincing enough to hide her Philadelphia roots, but her character is not nearly quirky enough a sleuth, like “Monk” or “The Mentalist,” to carry a show. (Translation: We have liftoff.)Īs Ramotswe’s prim second banana, Makutsi and other supporting characters needed to be much more flamboyantly funny than written here to make up for a rather bland protagonist. “Houston, we are in the rocketship headed for the stars,” notes Ramotswe’s assistant Grace Makutsi (Anika Noni Rose) when the agency gets its first case.

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While the premise begs a broader comedic treatment, the series is a leisurely paced drama with light jokes that mostly play on its characters’ convoluted rendering of the English language. If the contrast of Africa and detective work sounds like a rollicking laughfest, “Agency” isn’t that.

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