SHADES OF BLUE
ACTION / CRIME / DRAMA
USA
2016-2018
SHADES OF BLUE is an American crime drama television series created by Adi Hasak and broadcast on NBC. The series premiered on January 7, 2016. SHADES OF BLUE consists of 36 episodes of 1 hour.
STORY: Set in New York City, Harlee Santos (Jennifer Lopez) is a lone NYPD detective forced to work for the FBI's anti-corruption task force while solving her own financial and family problems . She is the single mother of 16-year-old Cristina (Sarah Jeffery). Cristina's father was abusive and shortly after his release from prison in 2005, Harlee charged him with murder.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta) is a corrupt lieutenant who is the commander of the 64th Precinct's Street Crimes Investigation Team and the prime target in an FBI anti-corruption investigation. He is very close to Harlee, whom he considers his daughter, and Harlee's own daughter, Cristina. This stems from the guilt he feels at the death of his own daughter Anna-Kate who died of a drug overdose at the age of 19. Donnie Pomp (Michael Esper) Season 1 is a corrupt lieutenant and member of NYPD Internal Affairs who teams up with Wozniak. Wozniak and Plomp were very attracted to each other.
Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta) & Donnie Plomp (Michael Esper)
RAY LIOTTA (2016-2018) December 18, 1954, Newark, NJ, USA † May 26, 2022, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic
MICHAEL ESPER (2016) December 1, 1976, New York City, NY, USA
SPECIAL: According to Adi Hasak, the show's creator and executive producer, the decision to make Wozniak - who has a wife - bisexual came about when he was writing the pilot. Dirty cop Wozniak shares a kiss with Home Secretary Donnie Pomp. "I never saw him as a gay character," Hasak told TheWrap. "But I was writing a scene between him and Donnie Pomp, the two heavyweights, and it was, to be honest, a damn boring scene between two macho guys explaining things to each other."
AWARDS: ‘SHADES OF BLUE’ 10 nominations
7.0 IMDB
