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?
LOVE LOVE LOVE BACKSTROM AND EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE SHOW
Im sooooooo pleased that Backstrom isnt cancled. like yayyyyyyy
I love Backstrom. Please don’t cancel it.
love Backstrom! So different, and the ENTIRE case I amazing! DON’T CANCEL.
I meant “cast”. The ENTIRE CAST IS AMAZING!!!
Love love love Backstrom!!
Please don’t cancel this show! We love it & Raine Wilson is awesome!!!
This show was a surprise and very funny. It would be a shame to cancel it. I hope it is not a done deal and hopefully it will stay on. The funniest new show this season.
At first I thought, “Great! Doctor House is a cop now” (Sarcasm) but despite how the commercials depicted him he’s actually a lot more complicated than a wannabe House clone would be. This is a really good show and I love how most of the show’s most interesting parts come not from the cases or even Backstrom himself but from how everyone reacts to the things he does. I would also hate for this to be canceled before we get to see his siblings and how they interact with Backstrom.
Backstrom is one of the best shows on TV. Don’t cancel it please!!! It’s delightful to watch. It’s like Archie Bunker on steroids.
every time there is a real good show such as “Backstrom”, Terriers, Life, Detroit ###, Longmere, Rake, Eddie Keen, Magic City, and the Las Vegas show set in the sixties, it gets cancelled. DO NOT CANCEL!
Show is smart, clever, funny and better than most of what is on network TV now.
I love this show. I really hope it doesn’t get cancelled. I don’t get to watch when it is on so I DVR it. As I do with most evening shows. I have too much going on so I have to DVR most everything. Please don’t cancel!!
Renew it. He is awesome playing that role.
this show is awsome.Great for us middle aged guys who love to still drink beer and be slobs once and awhile (in are man caves away from the wife). Keep up the great work.
The show is so hilarious and cute. Please keep it going for another season.