Network: FOX
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: January 22, 2015 — April 30, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Rainn Wilson, Genevieve Angelson, Dennis Haysbert, Kristoffer Polaha, Page Kennedy, Beatrice Rosen, and Thomas Dekker.
TV show description:
This offbeat crime procedural is based on the Swedish book series by Leif G. W. Persson. The series follows Detective Everett Backstrom (Rainn Wilson). He’s an unhealthy, offensive, irascible (also brilliant) detective who is brought back from exile to run the Portland Police Bureau’s Special Crimes Unit (SCU).
Tasked with navigating the city’s most sensitive and serious cases, Backstrom must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior.
Backstrom’s second in command is Detective Nicole Gravely (Genevieve Angelson). Detective John Almond (Dennis Haysbert) is a kind and devoutly religious man who’s been married for 30 years and serves as a pastor on weekends.
Sergent Peter Niedermayer (Kristoffer Polaha) is the unit’s Forensics Liaison and Officer Frank Moto (Page Kennedy) is one of the members of the Special Crimes Unit. Foreign-born civilian Nadia Paquet (Beatrice Rosen) supports the detectives.
Meanwhile, Gregory Valentine (Thomas Dekker) is Backstrom’s decorator and “underworld connection”.
Episode #13 — Rock Bottom
When a Native American is found dead under a bridge on the Wabacooche Indian reservation, Amy’s (guest Sarah Chalke) new boyfriend and Indian Reserve Police Captain, Jesse Rocha (guest Adam Beach), wants in on the case. Backstrom then learns that Indian meth-king Norwest (guest Gregory Cruz), of Cooch County, is a suspect in the case, and he is convinced his father, Cooch County Sheriff Blue Backstrom (guest Robert Forster), knows about Norwest’s drug dealings, leaving Backstrom to make a difficult decision. Meanwhile, in order to keep his job with the S.C.U., Backstrom must impress Dr. Deb (guest Rizwan Manji).
First aired: April 30, 2015.
What do you think? Do you like the Backstrom TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
In a agreement-this show is great! entertaining.
keep Backstrom on. good show funny .why is it that good shows are always getting canceled.
Thanks to my trusty DVR, I will keep all Backstrom episodes on tap when I want to enjoy these great characters. I WAS looking forward to the new season, it was one of very few new shows that held my interest.
I loved this show and watched every week. Backstrom and the other characters were hilarious. I am tired of the stupid mindless shows like Bachelor or Bachelorette and idiotic reality shows. This show was funny, serious, crass, and obnoxious all at once. If they keep cancelled I will boycott this network!
Finally a detective show that my husband would actually watch with me and it gets canceled. It was evolving nicely and kept us coming back. Backstrom gets the ax and something as tasteless as Big Brother is back in full force. Hadn’t watched much of anything on FOX until Backstrom. Network lost a couple more viewers.
I liked it and thought it would last.
Keep it for a long, long time. Genuinely different.
Genuinely different. I would like to see it for another 10 years or so.
Great show. Please don’t cancel . I’m begging u.
Seem to me if I like a show it will be gone they only care about the young people want and yet the ole folks are the ones buying. they just keep playing reality show that are not reality, I sorry I liked Backstrom and forever.
Hello,
Please bring Backstrom back.
This show was unafraid, daring, and wildly entertaining. I absolutely love it! Just a great show.
It needs time to grow on people. The cast meshes together so well. I really want to know how Backstrom is going to deal with being sober.
Please bring Backstrom back!!!
Thank you,
John Morrell
Backstrom is edgy, funny and has a great cast of characters. There is a lot of potential here. Please renew!!!
They need to rethink the cancellation. It was a good show. It was slowly building up to a story line, just like those daytime soaps. RENEW it!!!
At last, there was something fresh and original, not like every other show on television and it gets cancelled. It was quirky with a great ensemble cast and it deserves a chance by Fox or another network. Mash would never have made it in this climate on tv. It is my hope someone brings back Backstrom.
I absolutely agree!
in Agreement, this show needs to continue on……especially with the way the first season ended.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do they keep c canceling the fund shows and not the bad reality shows . Love the charters.
I m you I need to get the show back.
Keep Backstrom. Great show. Why don’t u cancel those reality shows. Stop dumming
down the people.