Where does HSB stream currently? My dad and I used to watch it religiously...
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 6 December 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
I seem to recall later seasons getting bogged down in some long-running political subplot involving the DA shouting at Furillo a lot. Or did he and the missus end up on different sides? Anyway it got a bit dull. Spinal Tap watch: Charles Levin's 'Eddie Gregg' character (one of Mick Belker's many nemeses) also played the record store owner of the failed signing session.
― Sent me the wrong t-shirt it says let’s summon demons (Matt #2), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
i think this show got a bit overshadowed by Bochco's subsequent success w/NYPD Blue, which lasted longer and was even more successful in terms of awards season BS, but HSB is better. i watched it a decent amount as a kid, it was on when i was in elementary school. i enjoyed that it was seemingly set in a close approximation of Chicago, based on just some of the atmosphere and the police vehicles. everyone did seem a little worn down and more blue-collar and a bit more real. the violence was occasionally pretty shocking.
it still engaged in some ridiculousness, like when David Caruso was the leader of an Irish street gang. It was more The Warriors than The Wire on some occasions, really.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cth4KAXWEAAKGED.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 6 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Dennis Franz's Sal Benedetto + Norman Buntz characters > NYPD Blue, sorry for challops
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
entire series currently streaming on Hulu
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
apparently Bochko leaves during or after s5 i watched first ep of s5 last nightRobert Prosky joins the cast as roll call sgt so my excitement about Blake coming into her own on roll call was shortlived :/also their “it’s a hot one out there” summer makeup is usually pretty extra but it’s waaaay ott in this first ep - i said to clay they’re so sweaty & damp that it looks like the station moved to Indonesia over the break. All they need are linen suits & slow ceiling fans & it’s The Year of Living Dangerously also there’s a new detective whose name i cant remember & of course furillo has already gone on a date with her. dude just shits where he eats left right & center.. he’s still tangled up w joyce even though they’re separated & i think fay is still hot for him too. wild.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
morbs otm. i dunno that it’s even challops - Sal Bendetto was an amazingly realized slimeball. that arc was so good!! and he almost got Washington killed >:(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
weird how no one noticed Benedetto and Buntz bore a resemblance to one another.
― omar little, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
i think in the Prosky era David Mamet wrote an episode, maybe 'consulted' on more
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
although it was more common on sitcoms, the same guest actors usta show up playing diff characters fairly often on series
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
i love it, i think the Law and Orders did and still do it constantly.
― omar little, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
yeah Edward James Olmos played a tenant in a slumlord building & then later showed up as a judge in a different season. i kinda love that so many great guest stars in general thoughAlfré Woodard had an amazing run as the mother of a kid who got shot. She got an emmy for it (her first iirc) Oh and Jonathan Banks got a 2 parter as a homeless guy with multiple personality disorder suspected of murder. He looked SO young i didnt recognize him at first
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Jonathan Banks is also one of the detectives that gets capped in the beginning of the first 48 Hrs film.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
I have never heard of Jonathan Banks, so I guessed it was a Prestige TV thing
yep
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 December 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
lol i watched an episode last night and nearly shared a similar image. were there actual irish gangs that dressed like they fell off a box of lucky charms?
hill street was so much better than NYPD Blue it's ridiculous.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Saturday, 7 December 2019 07:48 (four years ago) link
Yep, A Wasted Weekend.”
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 7 December 2019 08:31 (four years ago) link
Nutty IMDB Trivia About Veronica Hamel:
In 1972 she and her then husband became the new owners of Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood home. They hired a contractor to replace the roof and remodel the house, and the contractor discovered a sophisticated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered every room in the house. The components were not commercially available in 1962, but were--in the words of a retired Justice Department official--"standard FBI issue." This discovery lent further support to claims of conspiracy theorists that Marilyn had been under surveillance by the Kennedys and the Mafia. The new owners spent $100,000 to remove the bugging devices from the house.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
whoah!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
Decades is showing a smattering of episodes this weekend. They're currently in the midst of a Season 3 arc about a black man getting killed in custody (by a racist biker in the next holding cell BTW), and holy shit they could have shot this yesterday.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Also LaRue has been perving on a 16 year-old played by Ally Sheedy.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
yeah that was super gross
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
This show is streaming for free on Channel 4 in the UK. I dip in and out, having watched most of it as a kid when it first ran, and it rarely feels dated. I mean, the fashions, etc, have changed, but its hard edge remains an acme of a certain kind of TV.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Sunday, 19 June 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
They've skipped ahead to S7, and they just ran the Mamet episode, which lives up to reputation. It's so Mamet they brought back Lindsey Crouse and gave her some great scenes with Dennis Franz! Only needed a bunch of gratuitous swears and a Rickey Jay or William H. Macy cameo to achieve Full Mamet.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 June 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
love franz in HSB, buntz was a great shady piece of work
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 June 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
Robert Prosky (with a full monologue in that Mamet episode) was the original Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon’s role) in Glengarry on Broadway.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 20 June 2022 03:14 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, I was just looking him up and found this started by Morbs: RIP Mamet regular / character actor Robert Prosky
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 June 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
prosky is a legend <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 June 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
Is that him in the second Gremlins movie, as the guy who introduces horror flicks on TV?
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Monday, 20 June 2022 07:47 (one year ago) link
Yes it is!
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 June 2022 08:55 (one year ago) link