I Wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder What ILX Thinks of "CRIME STORY"

Going through the show, there are a number of moments where you can tell they caved to network notes about having stuff that 80s audiences could easily relate to.

Like, near the end of the first season, after they get to Vegas, they throw the brakes on all the arcs and do a story about child molestation (with a soon to be very famous performer as the victim) that just reeks of needing to do an "issue episode".

there's a real verisimilitude in the scenes w/Farina and John Santucci; IRL when Farina was a police officer he arrested Santucci, who was a jewel thief (whose technical skill at thievery inspired Michael Mann's film Thief and also some of the break-ins in this series). Santucci makes for a perfect, slimy criminal.

Michael Rooker has a "blink and you miss him" cameo as a street cop in the first scene of the pilot.

MannVerse in Full Effect: Santucci was a technical advisor and played Caan's detective nemesis in Thief, which also featured Farina as a mob body guard.

first scene with Andrew "Not Yet Dice" Clay in the series and he lights his cigarette just like he does onstage in his standup. And he's actually very good in the show. Michael Madsen makes good use of his minor role, he's does the full Madsen with the performance.