I Watch TV: Pretty Hard Cases

Pretty Hard Cases

Two female Toronto detectives, Kelly Duff (large, black, confident, streetwise, drug squad) and Sam Wazowski (thin, uptight, by the book, guns and gangs taskforce) collide and find themselves collaborating on a set of interlocking cases. Following various busts and murders Tiggy Sullivan, newly in charge of a dodgy trucking and logistics firm, along with her sister and daughter, finds herself in a position to become a drug lord (lady). The show follows on parallel tracks with the detectives trying to roll up the current drug gangs and Sullivan et al moving in on the spaces opening up.

Various larger than life criminals and police are introduced, personal and family problems emerge and multiply, people are murdered, kidnapped, held prisoner, lives are ruined, people are threatened. It’s a comedy!

Some of the comic scenes are funny, some a bit awkward. Where it works best is where either the cops or a criminal is trying to get things done and the world is just friction, they can’t get the first thing done, then the second thing can’t work and with all the pieces in place it all goes wrong. Very relatable, and good plotting as that’s where they call another character who is trying to get their things done and in so forth…

Watch This: Canadian comedy crime with charismatic characters
Don’t Watch This: Crime and comedy doesn’t mix also no to Canada