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Backstrom

2015-01-22 · 60 min / episode · ★ 6.8

Crime · Drama

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.

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Creators
Hart Hanson
Production companies
20th Century Fox Television, Far Field Productions
Countries
United States of America
Status
Canceled

Top Cast

Rainn WilsonRainn WilsonDet. Lt. Backstrom
Beatrice RosenBeatrice RosenNadia Paquet
Dennis HaysbertDennis HaysbertDet. Sgt. Almond
Genevieve AngelsonGenevieve AngelsonDet. Gravely
Kristoffer PolahaKristoffer PolahaSgt. Niedermayer
Page KennedyPage KennedyOfficer Moto
Thomas DekkerThomas DekkerGregory Valentine

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