Shades of Blue (TV series)

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Shades of Blue
File:Shades of Blue nbc logo.png
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Created by Adi Hasak
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Composer(s) Wendy Melvoin
Jeff Russo
Lisa Coleman
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Producer(s) Priscilla Porianda
David DeClerque
Production location(s) New York City, New York
Cinematography Stefan Czapsky
Editor(s) Aaron Yanes
Joel Goodman
Elba Sanchez-Short
Running time 42 minutes
Production company(s) <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network NBC
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Original release January 7, 2016 (2016-01-07) –
present (present)
External links
Website

Shades of Blue is an American crime drama television series created by Adi Hasak and premiered on January 7, 2016.[3] The series is set in New York City and stars Jennifer Lopez as the main character Harlee Santos, a single-mother NYPD Detective, who is forced to work in the FBI's anti-corruption task force, while dealing with her own financial and family problems.

On February 5, 2016, NBC renewed Shades of Blue for a 13-episode second season.[4][5]

Premise

Harlee Santos (Jennifer Lopez) is an NYPD detective and single mother struggling with financial problems. When she is caught up in an FBI anti-corruption probe, she must choose between doing the right thing for her daughter or covering up for her corrupt police co-workers.

Cast and characters

Main

  • Jennifer Lopez [6] as Detective Harlee Santos, a corrupt officer with the NYPD 64th Precinct in Brooklyn and FBI informant for the anti-corruption task force. She is the single mother to 17-year-old Cristina; Cristina's father was abusive, and shortly after his release from prison in 2005, Harlee framed him for murder. She joined Lt. Wozniak's crew after he helped her cover up her frame job.[7] After getting arrested by the FBI in an anti-corruption investigation, she becomes a reluctant informant against Wozniak in exchange for immunity.[8]
  • Ray Liotta[6] as Lieutenant Matt Wozniak, the corrupt commander of the 64th Precinct, and the main target in an FBI anti-corruption investigation. He is a 25-year veteran of the force, and before that spent six years in the United States Marine Corps. He is very close to Harlee, whom he considers a daughter, and Harlee's own daughter, Cristina. He is bisexual, married to Linda and having an affair with Donnie before Donnie was killed by Loman in self-defense in "One Last Lie". His own daughter was said to have been clinically depressed and committed suicide at the age of 19.[9]
  • Drea de Matteo[6] as Detective Tess Nazario
  • Warren Kole as Special Agent Robert Stahl, an FBI agent assigned to the Anti-Corruption Task Force and Santos' handler.
  • Dayo Okeniyi as Detective Michael Loman, a rookie detective assigned to the 64th who, on one of his first days, accidentally shot and killed a suspected drug dealer who was playing a video game, which causes him to have a huge crisis of conscience, especially after Harlee helps him cover it up.[8]
  • Hampton Fluker[10] as Detective Marcus Tufo
  • Vincent Laresca as Detective Carlos Espada
  • Sarah Jeffery as Cristina Santos, Harlee's 17-year-old daughter[11] and a musical prodigy.

Recurring

  • Santino Fontana as Detective David Saperstein, a member of Wozniak's crew. He was critically injured at the end of the episode "Fall of Man" by Wozniak and was killed, in the guise of a bomb threat, by Wozniak in the next episode "Undiscovered Country".
  • Michael Esper as Lieutenant Donnie Pomp, a member of NYPD Internal Affairs and Lieutenant Wozniak's ex-co-conspirator and ex-lover. Pomp was killed by Loman in self-defense after trying to kill Loman and was cremated by an angry Wozniak, who was convinced that he played him and that he set Wozniak up, in the episode "One Last Lie".
  • Lolita Davidovich as Linda Wozniak, Matt's wife
  • Gino Anthony Pesi as Assistant District Attorney James Nava, the 64th Precinct's new ADA who becomes romantically involved with Harlee.
  • Annie Chang as Special Agent Molly Chen, Stahl's partner
  • Leslie Silva as Gail Baker
  • Mark Deklin as Joe Nazario, Tess' husband
  • Erica Ash as Erica, Loman's love interest
  • Kathryn Kates as David's mother
  • Antonio Jaramillo as Miguel Zepeda, Harlee's ex-boyfriend and Christina's father. He was abusive to Harlee up to the point that he almost killed her and Christina. He was killed at the end of the episode "One Last Lie" when he tries to rape Harlee and she ends up breaking his neck, killing him.

Production

In February 2014, NBC gave a 13-episode straight-to-series order.[12] A teaser trailer was made available on June 3, 2015, containing statements by Lopez, Ray Liotta, and Drea de Matteo.[13]

Casting

Lopez was given the main role in 2014.[14] On February 26, 2015, Liotta, de Matteo, Vincent Laresca and Warren Kole were cast as Lt. Matt Wozniak, Det. Shirley Nazario, Det. Tony Espada and Agent Robert Staal, respectively. Dayo Okeniyi was given the role of Det. Michael Loman.[15] On March 30, Hampton Fluker was cast in a recurring role as Det. Patrick Tufo.[10] On April 8, Sarah Jeffery was cast as Santos' daughter, Christine.[11] On April 13, Gino Anthony Pesi was cast in a recurring role as Assistant District Attorney James Nava. [16]

Filming

Filming for the first season began on June 4, 2015, in New York City.[17]

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

No. in
series		 Title Directed by Written by Original air date Prod.
code		 U.S. viewers
(millions)
1 "Pilot" Barry Levinson Adi Hasak January 7, 2016 (2016-01-07) 101 8.55[18]
When rookie Michael is out with Harlee and accidentally shoots a drug dealer, she covers it up. Harlee is also part of Matt's group which keeps the peace between the local gangsters and collects extortion money from them, and uses her share for her daughter Cristina's high school tuition. Matt helps them tie up a loose end on Michael's shooting, so Michael now owes him, too. A meeting with a bookie turns out to be an FBI setup for Harlee, who is now forced to work with Agent Robert Stahl and his anti-corruption task force to avoid jail. Robert sends Harlee on a meeting with Matt wearing a wire, where he angrily confides in her that he knows there is an FBI informant on his team whom she is supposed to help find and kill.
2 "Original Sin" Barry Levinson Story by: Jack Orman & J. David Shanks
Teleplay by: Jack Orman		 January 14, 2016 (2016-01-14) 102 6.64[19]
Now that Matt knows that there is an FBI informant, Harlee feels too much at risk and stops cooperating with Robert. She demands that he patches his leak first. Matt is injured in a drive-by shooting and puts his team to work to find the shooter. Donnie tells Matt that the FBI would pick an informant with personal secrets, which points him to Harlee. Coincidentally, he is reminded of an old case: Miguel Zepeda, Harlee's abusive ex-boyfriend and Cristina's father whom she framed for murder to protect her daughter. Matt sets up a polygraph interrogation of Harlee which she passes, but he still knows she is the FBI informant from a telltale gesture.
3 "False Face, False Heart" Dan Lerner Mike Daniels & Wolfe Coleman January 21, 2016 (2016-01-21) 103 6.94[20]
Matt tells Harlee that Miguel's case is up for retrial, but he will cover for her. After the FBI establishes that they do not have a leak, they demand results from Harlee or will arrest her. Matt finds out that Harlee was going through his office and decides to kill her to protect himself and his lover Donnie. Meanwhile, Tess moves a dead body out of her backyard and asks her colleagues for help. Harlee solves the case and presents it to Robert but he wants Matt. Harlee is on a dinner date with James to discuss Miguel's case when Robert wires her up for her meeting with Matt. She can convince Matt that she is not the rat. Finally, Harlee finishes up her interrupted date with James at his place.
4 "Who Can Tell Me Who I Am" Dan Lerner Yahlin Chang & Benjamin Lobato January 28, 2016 (2016-01-28) 104 6.49[21]
Michael feels guilty about killing the drug dealer and attends his funeral when his police team picks him up to talk some sense into him. Later, he tries to do right by protecting the wife of another abusive criminal suspect, and Harlee seduces him to work outside the rules. After a random sexual encounter at a bar, Matt crashes his car and ends up in hospital. He apologizes to Harlee and asks her for help. She tells Robert about her job to move a van only after hiding explosives and counting machines that Donnie had put into the van without Matt's knowledge. But eventually, Robert and Molly find the items at Matt's storage unit. Meanwhile, Carlos helps Tess by appeasing the woman she attacked for sleeping with her husband, and they kiss.
5 "Equal and Opposite" Dan Lerner Tamara Becher-Wilkinson & Julian Oliver Meiojas February 4, 2016 (2016-02-04) 105 5.64[22]
Tess arrests a drug dealer with a large supply of heroin owned by drug boss Raul Mendez. Matt refuses to return the drugs to Raul. In revenge, Raul has Matt's car stolen and prominently returned with gay graffiti and porn, as a warning that he knows about his secret, so Matt blackmails Raul to leave the city. Donnie has Marcus and David under surveillance, and finds out from a visit by Robert that the FBI is investigating against the team. Suspicious about Tess, Matt follows her and catches her in bed with Carlos. His suspicions about David turn out to be wrong, too. Harlee is worried that Robert became obsessed with her and she suspects that he bugged her apartment. She has a camera installed at his place and watches him practice his lines for his date, but shuts it off when his date arrives and does not realize that she is a "Harlee" look-a-like escort.
6 "Fall of Man" Dan Lerner Story by: Marta Gené Camps
Teleplay by: Mike Daniels & Wolfe Coleman		 February 11, 2016 (2016-02-11) 106 5.40[23]
When Matt finds out that David has been sneaking away from duty, he is convinced that David is the FBI rat, while he was really only taking Portuguese lessons. Harlee asks Robert to protect David, so Robert arrests him, but David escapes. Meanwhile, Miguel asked Harlee to find Frank Kovach, who committed the murder that Harlee framed Miguel for. Also, Cristina finds letters from Miguel, so Harlee tells her that he abused her and lies to her that he is not her father. She also makes sure Cristina is not allowed to visit him. The hunt for Frank and David's flight from the FBI brings them together with Matt on a top floor of a construction site. Matt pushes David down and shoots Frank dead, making it look like they fought each other, but David survives his fall.
7 "Undiscovered Country" David Boyd Story by: Mike Daniels
Teleplay by: Jack Orman & Wolfe Coleman		 February 18, 2016 (2016-02-18) 107 5.29[24]
David is in the hospital in a coma, severely injured. Robert and Molly find that Harlee visited Miguel. Miguel is not cooperative, and neither is Harlee, because she is furious that Robert did not protect David. Robert and Molly begin to investigate about Kovach, and find Maxine, who was a friend of the woman killed by Miguel (or rather by Kovach). After Gail visits the police department, Matt is convinced that David is the informant, but Harlee talks him out of murdering him. When Tufo finds the federal immunity contract at David's house, Matt decides that David cannot survive, and stages a bomb threat at the hospital so that he can finish David off.
8 "Good Cop Bad Cop" David Boyd Story by: J. David Shanks
Teleplay by: Nikki Toscano		 February 25, 2016 (2016-02-25) 108 4.98[25]
Cristina's boyfriend Manny is beat up by abusive and racist street cops. Instead of asking Harlee, Cristina asks Matt for help, who takes care of the cops. Harlee learns that Robert found a witness in Miguel's case who Matt has been paying off regularly. When Robert tells James to stay away from Harlee, she confronts Robert about it and confesses to him that Miguel had abused her and she framed him to protect Cristina. Matt's team mourns for David. At first, Harlee refuses to cooperate with Robert because he failed to protect David, but in the end, she tells him that Matt murdered David and offers her help to bring him down.
9 "Live Wire Act" Millicent Shelton Story by: Tamara Becher-Wilkinson
Teleplay by: Wolfe Coleman & Tamara Becher-Wilkinson		 March 3, 2016 (2016-03-03) 109 4.77[26]
Furious that Matt murdered David, Harlee wants to put him in jail and asks Robert for a wire. She gets involved in a kidnapping that Donnie had secretly arranged as a test. When Matt angrily confronts Donnie about it, Harlee manages to plant her wire so she and Robert learn about Matt and Donnie's affair. Molly helps Miguel who she knows is innocent in jail by arranging a deal with the DA which Miguel accepts and is set free.
10 "What Devil Do" Millicent Shelton Mike Daniels March 10, 2016 (2016-03-10) 110 4.88[27]
11 "The Breach" Steven DePaul Wolfe Coleman March 17, 2016 (2016-03-17) 111 5.10[28]
12 "For I Have Sinned" Steven DePaul Mike Daniels March 24, 2016 (2016-03-24) 112 5.13[29]
13 "One Last Lie" Paul McCrane Jack Orman March 31, 2016 (2016-03-31) 113 5.43[30]

Reception

Critical response

The show has received mixed or average reviews. On Metacritic, Shades of Blue has a Metascore of 58/100, based on 28 critics.[31] On Rotten Tomatoes, the show is rated 56% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's consensus reads "Solid performances by Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta fail to lift Shades of Blue above the ranks of the pedestrian network procedural".[32]

Writing for USA Today, Robert Bianco gave the series two stars out of four, calling it "a thoroughly ordinary reworking of pretty much every crooked cop show and movie you've ever seen".[33] Slate reviewer Willa Paskin criticized the show as "moderately terrible", though praised Lopez's performance as "hugely appealing" and called her "the show’s one reliable pleasure".[34] In a more positive review, Yahoo!'s Ken Tucker called Lopez's work "solid" and felt the series was "perhaps the best dramatic work she's done since her first-rate film, Out of Sight".[35] Molly Eichel from The A.V. Club gave the series a C+ rating, saying that "While the plot starts out cut and dry, it becomes more twisty and turny in a way that will eventually bring the audience back to the opening scene of a makeup-less, de-glammed Santos confessing her sins into a camera".[36] Matt Zoller Seitz of Vulture wrote that "Shades of Blue isn't a deep show, but it's a sensationally effective one. It knows what it is (a compacted, melodramatic, commercial TV-friendly gloss on one of those '70s and '80s Sidney Lumet police-corruption thrillers) and it rarely steps wrong."[37]

Ratings

Ep. No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR Viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Pilot" January 7, 2016 (2016-01-07) 1.8/6[18] 8.55[18] 1.3 4.92 3.1 13.46[38]
2 "Original Sin" January 14, 2016 (2016-01-14) 1.3/4[19] 6.64[19] 1.3 4.67 2.6 11.31[39]
3 "False Face, False Heart" January 21, 2016 (2016-01-21) 1.4/5[20] 6.94[20] 1.2 4.53 2.6 11.47[40]
4 "Who Can Tell Me Who I Am" January 28, 2016 (2016-01-28) 1.3/4[21] 6.49[21] 1.0 3.62 2.3 10.11[41]
5 "Equal and Opposite" February 4, 2016 (2016-02-04) 1.1/4[22] 5.64[22] 1.2 4.31 2.3 9.95[42]
6 "Fall of Man" February 11, 2016 (2016-02-11) 1.1/4[23] 5.40[23] 1.1 3.98 2.2 9.38[43]
7 "Undiscovered Country" February 18, 2016 (2016-02-18) 1.1/4[24] 5.29[24] 1.1 4.02 2.2 9.31[44]
8 "Good Cop Bad Cop" February 25, 2016 (2016-02-25) 1.0/4[25] 4.98[25] 1.1 3.81 2.1 8.77[45]
9 "Live Wire Act" March 3, 2016 (2016-03-03) 1.0/3[26] 4.77[26] 1.1 3.91 2.1 8.68[46]
10 "What Devil Do" March 10, 2016 (2016-03-10) 1.0/4[27] 4.86[27] 1.0 3.80 2.0 8.68[27]
11 "The Breach" March 17, 2016 (2016-03-17) 1.0/4[28] 5.10[28] 0.9 3.62 1.9 8.72[47]
12 "For I Have Sinned" March 24, 2016 (2016-03-24) 1.0/4[29] 5.13[29] 1.0 3.82 2.0 8.95[48]
13 "One Last Lie" March 31, 2016 (2016-03-31) 1.1/4[30] 5.43[30] 0.9 3.58 2.0 8.96[49]

Broadcast

In India, Shades of Blue premiered on Colors Infinity on Friday, January 8, 2016 and is aired shortly after its U.S. counterpart.[50] In Canada, Shades airs on Global, at the same time as it airs on NBC. In the Netherlands, "Shades" is aired on Wednesdays on Fox.

References

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