Battle Creek

So a buddy cop show set in Michigan doesn't  necessarily sound all that interesting. Except one of the cops isn't a cop, he's an enigmatic and charismatic FBI agent sent out to a remote one man field office to help the local Battle Field, Michigan police department. Also, they aren't buddies. At best their relationship is strained. The polished swanky FBI agent just rubs the gritty disheveled son of a con artist local detective all kinds of the wrong way. (getting a little more interesting isn't it.)

Incidentally, the con artist mother is played by Candice Bergen. Which brings me to the other reason I got drawn in: there are a ton of actors in sizable roles that made huge impressions with small roles in other shows. Kal Penn who played on of the long suffering interns on "House" plays Font, one of the detectives. Peter Jacobson, another "House" intern is the brother of the mayor. Liza Lapira who I first saw as a very dislikable IA officer in "Dexter" is one of the detectives. The list just keeps on going. Nearly every episode was like a T.V. programming connect the dots and it was a lot of fun.

As is always the tragedy, the show is good, so of course there is only ever going to be one season of it. Too bad. But it's on Netflix right now; go check in out.