“This series will give the Eagle Forum another reason to boycott CBS for promoting the homosexual lifestyle — which evidently now includes hunting serial killers,” joked Troy Williams, the executive director of Equality Utah, referring to the conservative interest group led in Utah by Gayle Ruzicka. “How could Gayle oppose that?”
“Instinct” is the latest in a long line of CBS detective/police dramas.It’s about a best-selling author/college professor/ex-CIA operative, Dylan Reinhart (Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”), who teams up with police detective Lizzie Needham (Bojana Novakovic) to solve murders.
But maybe the fact that the character’s sexuality is not being played up can be seen as a sign of progress, a sign that CBS, arguably the most conservative of the broadcast networks, thinks that this groundbreaking event is not that big of a deal.