Backstrom - aka Detective House
First episode was good enough.
Aside from the police misconduct which seems a little tone deaf these days.... when was this first episode made? We have the cute cop breaking a suspect's finger and fabricating evidence that it was justified. Then the protagonist shoots himself in the arm accidentally which he hangs on the suspect, then shoots an unarmed suspect, who, granted, was about to go for a gun on the ground a few feet away, but then the protagonist tosses the gun at the guy's body so it looks like the shooting was a little more justified. These are the people we're supposed to like.
Anyway, I like everything Rainn Wilson has done so far, so I will leave the DVR set.
Aside from the police misconduct which seems a little tone deaf these days.... when was this first episode made? We have the cute cop breaking a suspect's finger and fabricating evidence that it was justified. Then the protagonist shoots himself in the arm accidentally which he hangs on the suspect, then shoots an unarmed suspect, who, granted, was about to go for a gun on the ground a few feet away, but then the protagonist tosses the gun at the guy's body so it looks like the shooting was a little more justified. These are the people we're supposed to like.
Anyway, I like everything Rainn Wilson has done so far, so I will leave the DVR set.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Bet the first ep was shot maybe a few months before premiere. Here. Hmm, Swedish book series? Written by a former professor of criminology.
Good to know the blue wall of silence isn't restricted to the US.
In 1977, while working at the Swedish National Police Board, Persson was used as the whistleblower by journalist Peter Bratt in the so-called Geijer Scandal when he confirmed a classified memo sent by then National Police Commissioner Carl Persson to Prime Minister Olof Palme about the alleged ties of the Minister of Justice, Lennart Geijer, to a prostitution ring in Stockholm. Following this affair he was fired from the National Police Board.
Good to know the blue wall of silence isn't restricted to the US.
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More episodes have had lots of illegal police misconduct. Again, not sure how they are getting away with this in today's anti-cop atmosphere. I wonder how the viewer numbers are.
Anyway, four or five episodes in, it is getting a little better, but that may be just because I know the characters, by now. We are starting to get some character development and back stories... seasoning. They don't go full RAINE WILSON as often as I'd like, but this cop character certainly has a little Dwight Shrute in him.
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Anyway, four or five episodes in, it is getting a little better, but that may be just because I know the characters, by now. We are starting to get some character development and back stories... seasoning. They don't go full RAINE WILSON as often as I'd like, but this cop character certainly has a little Dwight Shrute in him.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I forgot this series existed. I'll watch it on Netflix if it gets renewed for a second season. Since it's a FOX show, the odds of that are slim.
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Slim turned into cancelled.
That link is to a list of a bunch of shows cancelled by the networks today.
That link is to a list of a bunch of shows cancelled by the networks today.
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Eh... more and more I'm thinking if you watch a show for its first two seasons and then it gets cancelled that you were probably saved from watching a show you enjoy turn into a show you won't claim you watch anymore. The 2 year make tends to be went the good idea starts to stale.
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Haven't seen the show so I can't comment on details, but as a general rule there is no such thing as harmless police misconduct. Even the little shit matters there, because it's the little violations that foster a disrespect for the law that leads to the big ones. Camel, tent, nose, etc.TheCatt wrote:But most of it has been harmless/irrelevant, in terms of net effect.
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I'm making an observation about the behavior and impact of a fictional character.TPRJones wrote:Haven't seen the show so I can't comment on details, but as a general rule there is no such thing as harmless police misconduct. Even the little shit matters there, because it's the little violations that foster a disrespect for the law that leads to the big ones. Camel, tent, nose, etc.TheCatt wrote:But most of it has been harmless/irrelevant, in terms of net effect.
They look like they are using it as a way to setup that the character has flaws, and I bet he overcomes them in the future (or at least, bet that was the original arc intent before it was canceled).
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This show was really good. I'm sorry it got canceled.GORDON wrote:Just watched the last episode, I wonder if they knew they were cancelled because of the last 5 minutes of the show.
It finished strong, but, it was Fox, so it didn't really have a chance with mediocre numbers.
I read some critical reviews, and apparently it just didn't fit in people's boxes, as far as I can tell.
Enjoyable, not perfect, nice change of pace from most procedurals.
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