The Unusuals

I wasn't going to watch this because cop shows are so boring/unrealistic usually, but after reading NK's comment below I decided to watch...It took me 2 days to finish the 10 episodes, the show is simply fantastic, the real scenarios that cops deal with, and even the perps and victims.. totally believable and enjoyable. This show was canceled, do I understand correctly? It is a big shame, I would trade NCIS, NYPD Blue, CSI, and countless other shows to be able to continue watching the crazy adventures of the 2nd precinct.

I'm not usually into cop dramas, mainly because they fail to capture the overarching wierdness and sense of humor that keeps people sane in that sort of life. That said I love this show. Cops, EMTs, newspaper crime reporters, ER doctors... you all know what I'm talking about and what the general public fails to grasp. You haven't lived until you and your buddies have been thrown out of waffle house at 4am for laughing uproariously about a story with a dead naked guy, a near miss, or horrible bodily fluids. That scenario is rather this show in a nut shell. People do really bad stuff to each other and, when you're immersed in it day after day, it makes you odd. Unfortunately, that was a difficult concept for the network to pitch and they sort of rode the show's marketing into the toilet bowl of no return. So watch it, enjoy it, I hear that There's a DVD out there. Harold Perrineau was my personal favorite, but the entire cast was perfect.

What a shame that this show only went one season. Seems like all the really clever shows don't make the ratings. Two more that I shook my head over were Life and Firefly. Only the brain dead shows and reality shows seem to make it. As a result, I don't own a TV anymore - I occasionally will watch something online, which is how I found this series.