I’ve decided to start watching the second season of “Life” on the treadmill (which I’ve had on DVD since its release but have just never gotten around to re-watching). On it Damian Lewis (seen recently in the excellent terrorism drama “Homeland”) plays one of my all-time favourite TV cops. This got me thinking about my other favourite TV cops, and that train of thought resulted in this blog post.
It should be noted that I decided to leave out Jack Bauer from “24” because he doesn’t deal with crime solving in a traditional sense, and Fox Mulder from “The X-Files” because he probably never had a single case closed in his career. Both great characters, just not what I think of when I think ‘police’. I also left out the entire cast of “The Wire” because I refuse to pick just one of them and it seemed like a cheat to put them all down under one listing.
So here’s my list, or at least what came to mind today.
My Top 5 TV Cops
Special Agent Dale Cooper (“Twin Peaks”)
Detective Charlie Crews (“Life”)
Detective Bobby Simone (“NYPD Blue”)
Marshall Raylan Givens (“Justified”)
Detective Lennie Briscoe (“Law & Order”)