Backstrom
"Brilliant cop. Total jerk."
Overview
Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior. Based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books of the same name.
Backstrom at a glance
Backstrom is a 2015 crime and drama TV series from James Oh, starring Rainn Wilson, Beatrice Rosen and Dennis Haysbert. It has 1 season and 13 episodes. TMDB users rate it 6.8 out of 10 from 96 votes.
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