Set in New York, this comedy and dramatic TV series follows an earnest, obsessively honest NYPD detective, Tony Jr., and his father, Tony Sr., who is a former officer but was totally different from his son as he didn't follow the law. The father believes that he has to give more advices for his son living with him in a comedy life.
Absent real conflict or characters more than inconsistently drawn stereotypes, The Good Cop is a throwaway, an unworthy addition to a streaming service that has the cultural capital, if not always the desire, not to have to settle for mediocrity.
The Good Cop is a cop procedural that follows its own sort of formula, one that injects some warmth, some innocence and breezy, goofy delight into this typically testosterone-filled space. Where's the crime in that?
How you respond to The Good Cop will be determined largely by how much you embraced the 'Characters Welcome' phase of USA, although I must say that I watched most of those shows and couldn't really get through much of this one.
I only could suffer through two of them because the toxicity of the nostalgia was so treacherously weaponized and the lack of rough edges and simplistic plots were so narcoleptic in their power that I had to look away for fear of dissolving in sugar.
Groban is appealing in his first big TV series swing while Danza is Danza -- broad and constantly wisecracking. Those looking for any sharp edges to either character will find themselves searching in vain.
