One of those network shows from the prime years of the Golden Age of TV on cable that benefited from all the high minded concepts floating around but was sadly on a network so it got cancelled.

If a show like this (maybe not quite like this given the anti-police response to very real issues involving police brutality today, though it is largely about police curruption), was made today it’s would’ve been saved by one of the streaming networks. The hook is just too good and Damien Lewis and Sarah Shahi are just too good as a leading pair to give up on so fast. Shahi is the perfect “straight woman” to Lewis’ newly exonerated, 12-year incarcerated for murder, former cop, turned zen master, fruit loving, secret investigator, now millionaire detective (as part of his settlement deal). Not spoilers, none of this is a secret it’s basically in the credits.

Or maybe had it lasted a few more years it could’ve got the move to NBC-owned USA Network that Southland got.

Watch Person of Interest if you want to see more of Shahi in a similarly compelling above-average network show (she joined the cast later into the show) and Band of Brothers, Homeland, Billions, or Dreamcatcher for more Lewis.