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The Good Guys

2010 · 1 season

A breezy, joke-filled buddy-cop romp that coasts on odd-couple banter and retro charm, never taking its crimes too seriously.

Created by
Matt Nix
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Overview
Once upon the 1970s, Dan Stark and his partner, Frank Savage, were big-shot Dallas detectives. So big, in fact, that they were lauded as American heroes after saving the Governor's son. Thirty years later, Dan Stark is a washed-up detective who spends most of his time drunk or re-hashing his glory days. Dan's new partner, Jack Bailey, is an ambitious, by-the-book and overall good detective, but is sometimes a bit too snarky for his own good. His habit of undermining himself has earned him a dead-end position in the department, and he is stuck solving annoying petty theft cases that nobody else wants. Worse, he's been given the thankless task of babysitting Dan, the drunk pariah who can never keep partners for long.

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Matt Nix
Genres
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • crime
  • identity
  • redemption
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror1
Humour7
Realism5
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
drama, comedy
Created by
Matt Nix
Written by
Aaron Ginsburg, Adam Barr, Ben Wexler, Greg Hart
Starring
Bradley Whitford, Colin Hanks, Jenny Wade, Diana Maria Riva, Lee Thompson Young, Dan Castellaneta, Mike Starr, Alex Fernandez
Length
1 seasons, 20 episodes, 60 min each
Network
FOX
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, French, Spanish

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