Backstrom

★ 6.8IMDb Score
Released:2015-01-22
Duration:60 min
Director:
Actors:Rainn Wilson, Beatrice Rosen, Dennis Haysbert, Genevieve Angelson, Kristoffer Polaha
Production:20th Century Fox Television, Far Field Productions

Overview:

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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