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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The creator and screenwriter also created Southland and wrote for NYPD Blue in its best season (1993).
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Loved, loved, LOVED the first season of NYPD Blue [I should add an addendum to my post above of shows I 'knew' would be great early on, right around 'ipsy [sp] this you pissy little bitch.']. Ironic that the role of Det. John Kelly, Caruso's meatiest role and one in which he excelled, he walked away from so quickly. Though, I'm sure he's not losing any sleep after the $M's he got from CSI Miami, but he could have placed himself in the pantheon of all time great characters, instead of the butt of memes about people donning sunglasses and saying something absurd.
That episode where he was interrogating the baker who who killed a cab driver, fully cognizant of the facts in the case, but aware that it would be difficult to prove, . . . where he holds the guy's hand throughout every stage, then comes back time after time to bemoan how things aren't 'adding up' until the guy has spilled everything is as good a performance in a single episode of TV as I can recall. It's like Milch, Mamet and early David Wolf were tasked with penning the ultimate episode of police procedural fiction.
Though I must admit that Schwimmer as 4B [and Greendale alum Guzman as Nic's brother] was some weak sauce.