Backstrom
Seen it?2015 | 1 seasons | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With almost no lasting buzz and middling reviews (37% on Rotten Tomatoes), it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for crime-drama fans. If you loved Sharp Objects or Luther, start here.
- The mood
- Dark and gritty.
- The pace
- 1 season: a few weeks of evenings, hour-long episodes, about 13 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- Rated TV-14. Probably too much for younger kids.
- It was cancelled, so the story may not get a proper ending.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsBelow par
37% on Rotten Tomatoes, 51 on Metacritic
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Ran for 1 season and reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 20K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Created by Hart Hanson
- Rainn WilsonDet. Lt. Backstrom
- Beatrice RosenNadia Paquet
- Dennis HaysbertDet. Sgt. Almond
- Genevieve AngelsonDet. Gravely
- Kristoffer PolahaSgt. Niedermayer
- Page KennedyOfficer Moto
- Thomas DekkerGregory Valentine