Daydream believer

I liked the women, too, but I lost interest in the show overall right around the time Tom took Kiss Me Not away from Lindsay and like Lenore, I actually found the focus on the women's personal lives really off-putting, but that's partly my fault. When I watch a procedural, I ... want the procedural part. WMC's combination of, like, Law & Order with Sex & the City didn't quite work for me, especially because, as you note, almost all the men they're neurotic about are tools or annoying in some way.