Oh, H:LotS. Best cop show ever (that I know of). And Frank Pembleton was God's Favorite Cop. Andre Braugher can do no wrong in my book, and it's a federal crime that he isn't a household name. Also that the show rarely won any awards: the reasoning I usually heard was that it was because it was entirely produced in Baltimore, and the LA industry types couldn't be bothered with it.
It is so very Baltimore: I lived in Baltimore for season 4-6 (IIRC), and started watching it, and it was just so right. You could go to the Waterfront, and walk in front of the station (which was an old firehouse), and they shot the show in the neighborhoods, in bad locations. There's a true story that they were shooting a scene in a bad section of town, and a criminal was running from someone, and came running up and surrendered himself to two of the actors. *g*
And yeah, nobody on broadcast television has ever handled race issues the way H:LotS did. Damnit.
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It is so very Baltimore: I lived in Baltimore for season 4-6 (IIRC), and started watching it, and it was just so right. You could go to the Waterfront, and walk in front of the station (which was an old firehouse), and they shot the show in the neighborhoods, in bad locations. There's a true story that they were shooting a scene in a bad section of town, and a criminal was running from someone, and came running up and surrendered himself to two of the actors. *g*
And yeah, nobody on broadcast television has ever handled race issues the way H:LotS did. Damnit.