Tracker Season 2 announced new casting for a love interest for Justin Hartley’s Colter Shaw and I have to admit, it leaves me really confused as to how the show will pull it off. Tracker Season 1 was a huge ratings hit for CBSIts most successful original show in years. Hartley was great in the lead role, along Trackers large cast of supporting characters, including Eric Grise as hacker Bobby Exley, Fiona Rene as lawyer Reenie Green, Abby McEnany and Robin Weigert as handlers Velma and Teddy Brown, Jensen Ackles as brother Russell Shaw, and others. Thanks to their dynamic, I’m really looking forward to seeing where Tracker Season 2 follows.
unfortunately, Tracker season 2 is Already lost Teddy Brown, with Weigert disappointingly left the show. But Tracker Season 2’s story will introduce new cast members, and I have some concerns that not all of them will add to the story in a way that’s necessary or natural. especially, Tracker seems determined to give Colter Shaw a love interest, Even though he doesn’t need one. This is confirmed by a recent bit of casting news, which doesn’t give me confidence that the show won’t continue to try to force a romantic entanglement.
Tracker Season 2 casts a new love interest for Colter Shaw
Supergirl star Floriana Lima is cast as a flame from the past
A casting announcement for Tracker Season 2 reveals that Floriana Lima has been cast as Camille Picket. Many actors have guest appearances in Tracker Season 1 and Season 2 will be more of the same. Lima’s casting wouldn’t have been a big deal, Besides the fact that she is apparently a huge part of Colter’s life, Being his on-again, off-again girlfriend for the past decade. As the official synopsis reads
“Haunted, attractive…Camille has been Colter’s off-and-on lover for at least the last 10 years. Camille’s sister went missing 10 years ago and her case has never been solved – which brings some trauma to both Camille and Colter on each anniversary of her disappearance, but also caused them to reconnect, at least for an evening.
This is more than a little jarring, considering that her name never came up Tracker Season 1, and I would have expected her name to have at least been mentioned or their time referenced, even if she hadn’t been cast yet. It’s a revelation that comes out of left field and feels not only disproportionate to Colter Shaw’s character, but to the story as well. to me, It reads like the writers decided that Colter needed romantic dramaAnd so, a significant past lover is created to check off an unnecessary box rather than to fulfill an organic narrative need.
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Tracker Figure |
Character |
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Justin Hartley |
Colter Shaw |
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Abby McKenney |
Velma Brown |
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Eric Gray |
Bobby Exley |
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Fiona Renee |
Rainy Green |
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Jensen Ackles |
Russell Shaw |
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Wendy Crewson |
Mary Dove Shaw |
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Jennifer Morrison |
Lizzie Hawking |
Justin Hartley says it’s hard for Colter to have a girlfriend in Trucker
Colter’s personality and lifestyle are not relationship material
Floriana Lima’s Camille re-entering the picture doesn’t necessarily mean a romantic angle for Colter, though, let’s be honest: Net procedurals are procedural for a reason. Their formulaic choices are why we watch them as comfort shows, but they are still formulaic. It would be quite a surprise if Tracker Introduced a serious lover from Colter’s past life and had that thread go nowhere, romantically. If Colter and Camille were to rekindle their romance, however, it would surely end again, because Colter Shaw’s nomadic life is not conducive to a stable relationship.
What’s more, while Colter has shown some character growth in Tracker season 1, I don’t see how he is ready for a relationship as a man. He has a lot of great qualities to admire, but none of them lend themselves to being a good partner or boyfriend. Even Justin Hartley had this much to say about a romance for Colter at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con during the show’s panel:
“I think all of the things about him that are brave and brave become reckless and selfish. It’s like, I’m going to leave my house and go through all this stuff and put myself in danger and you’re back here worried about me I I just don’t think it’s a good look.”
Hartley is right. He may look great in a tight t-shirt and he may be one heck of a tracker, but let’s be honest: Coulter is not relationship material. Considering that his lone-wolf personality and the trauma of his past are both established as key character-shaping traits, His readiness for a relationship does not seem to be something that will happen anytime soon. Even if he is emotionally ready, the nomadic nature of his job would make it very difficult for him to maintain a relationship. Most people are not built for long-distance relationships, much less when one of the partners is constantly on the move.
Most people are not built for long-distance relationships, much less when one of the partners is constantly on the move.
now, It is not clear in what way Colter and Camille are still attached. As the character synopsis says, they still get together for one night a year on the anniversary of her sister’s disappearance, but is that one night considered the “on” part of their relationship, ephemeral as it may be? Does that mean she’ll only be in a one-off episode, or will she stick around? It’s not clear, but I also don’t think it’s something the show needs at this point in time.
Tracker Season 2 doesn’t need a love interest for Colter Shaw
He has more than enough character development without a romantic entanglement
Consider the will-they/will-they dynamic of Tracker So far it’s been between Colter and Reenie, throwing a longtime lover into the mix seems really unnecessary. Colter only just at the end of Tracker Season 1, started to express his appreciation for his closest allies; at this point, I’m not sure I’d even call them his friends, because he keeps them all at bay. The existing relationships are the ones I want to see him develop first: Bobby, Velma, and Reenie on his team, and deepening and repairing the relationships between his brother, Russell, and childhood friend, Lizzie. Colter Shaw is one of the few network TV characters who doesn’t need a love interest to grow in an interesting way.
Colter Shaw is one of the few network TV characters who doesn’t need a love interest to grow in an interesting way.
Beyond the platonic relationships, Another former romantic interest/partner has already been introduced Tracker Season 1: Billy. Sofia Pernas’ bounty hunter and former business partner of Colter was a great addition to the show, albeit for one episode, as she was arguably the only character who could outsmart Colter and get under his skin. Their dynamic was great, which shouldn’t be a surprise since Parnas and Harley are married in real life. I’d much rather Billy return to being a fun thorn in Colter’s side than an old, haunted lover. Apart from that, she already understands life, lives it herself.
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Tracker Season 2’s story already has more than enough character development potential for Colter Without throwing an old romance into the mix. And that’s aside from how awkward it will be considering Camille was never mentioned in the first season despite being such an important person to him. It’s too much, too soon, so I hope Camille’s time on the show, like others Tracker characters, will be contained to a one-episode story.