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Starsky and Hutch, Bad Boys, Rush Hour and
Lethal Weapon all fall under this classic category.
Although CBC s new show
Pretty Hard Cases seems to have all the elements that make up the buddy cop genre, it s also reinventing it through a few key differences, most obviously through it s two strong female leads.
Baroness von Sketch Show star Meredith MacNeill plays Samantha Wazowski, Guns and Gangs detective and Drug Squad detective Kelly Duff is played by
Orange is The New Black star Adrienne C. Moore.
The two women are forced to work together after realizing they re both trying to take down the same Toronto street gang, but the way they plan on doing so is exceptionally different.
CBC s Pretty Hard Cases: Shooting a cop show in a pandemic Pretty Hard Cases stars Meredith MacNeill and Adrienne C. Moore and creators Tassie Cameron and Sherry White break down their new procedural by Norman Wilner on February 5th, 2021 at 11:00 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
When
Pretty Hard Cases premiered on CBC and CBC Gem on Wednesday (February 3), it became the latest in a long line of buddy-cop procedural shows.
But it’s got an energy and a perspective that make it land just a little differently than most, thanks to the chemistry between stars Meredith MacNeill (
Baroness Von Sketch Show) and Adrienne C. Moore (
MacNeill s character Sam is rule-abiding, optimistic, over-achieving. one might even call her annoying. I am that character that over-shares that talks a lot, and that is all about law and order, says MacNeill. [Sam Wazowski] loves a five point plan. She likes people to be on time. She loves a pantsuit. She loves a sturdy shoe, she adds.
As a single mother of a 17-year-old-son who is growing up and away from her, Detective Sam Wazowski finds herself coping with increasing loneliness through chronic online dating.(CBC)
For the lonely, divorced single mother, work is the one thing Sam s got under control until she s forced to work with her department s finest from the Drug Squad, Kelly Duff. Radical differences aside, Sam s unlikely friendship with Kelly may be exactly what she needs to help her find a balance between her professional ambitions and disastrous personal life.
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