Anyone watch the crime drama set in Canada: "19-2"?

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Two seasons are available on AcornTV (possibly elsewhere). I see it’s from 2011-2014, but the second season just arrived on Acorn.

19-2 refers to a team of two Montreal cops, who couldn’t be more different, but who form a bond over the two seasons. One is a white, Dudly Doright, straight-arrow, steely-jawed guy called Ben Chartier. The partner he is assigned to is holy crap intense dark (literally and figuratively) passionate brooding school of hard knocks Nick Barron. The ebony and ivory thing is a bit of a cliche, but I really got hooked on the developing trust and commitment that was tested and that eventually grew between these two over the l-o-o-o-n-g haul.

Speaking of hooked, I adore prominent noses, and Adrian Holmes, who plays Nick, has one of the most devastatingly gorgeous profiles I’ve ever seen. If he were sculpted in marble, THAT would be my mental picture of Julius Caesar. He would have made a great Lutherand probably would have given that character more depth and more self-control.

The show features the usual lineup of hard-working city cops, each with his/her self-destructive tendencies. The white female detective is the ex-wife of Nick the cop, and their son is troubled. The Chief is a wimpy asshhole-loser with a troubled daughter who figures in the climax of season two. The Sergeant is a calm, cool, tower of rationality.

Some truly tough situations are dealt with-- wife abuse, pedophilia, rough “justice,” evicting people from their apartments (good people as well as junkie squatters) when developers take over the property, a horrific “wilding” episode involving one of the female cops, a whole building full of people dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, drinking on the job, heroes who fall from grace (and crash)…but they’re not handled in cliched ways. The season two opener is about a school shooting… and the whole hour IS the school shooting, relentlessly unfolding in real time, leaving all the cops tied up in knots.

There is some fairly explicit sex–loving, playful, exploitative, and one instance that I must admit I’ve never seen on TV.

Any fans out there? I recommend it. You may have to fast-forward through some stuff. I did.

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Nobody?

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It’s a pretty darned good show, although I’m possibly the only person in North America who’s watching it. Anyhoo, season 3 is now available on AcornTV. Give it a look.

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Originally shot in French, with some of the same actors if they’re bilingual enough.

The episode based on the real-life Dawson College shooting of 2006 is intense.

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Hello! Hello! <ThelmaLou runs toward another human being!>

That school shooting one was very unusual because the WHOLE episode was devoted to the ongoing incident. It wasn’t just part of he episode, as it would have been in most other shows. It was emotionally draining.

The series is pretty intense overall.

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First I’m hearing of it, but since it’s set in my home city, maybe I’ll watch it just to see if they present wildly-misplaced landmarks, i.e. if a drive from downtown to Kirkland passes by Trudeau airport, the Olympic Stadium, the Mont-Royale cross, the Atwater Market, the University of Montreal, the Fine-Arts Museum and the Superhospital, in that order.

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When you’ve watched a few episodes, come back and post on this thread, which will have migrated to page 12 or something by then.

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Just one more attempt to generate some interest in this excellent police drama set in Montreal. The crime solving, plots, characters, tangled politics, etc., are very good, but this might appeal also.

Almost every episode has from 1-3 extremely hot sex scenes. The guy in this one is Nick, one of the two focal characters of the series. The link is most assuredly NOT safe for work. And yes, there is sound.

Krista Bridges Underwear Scene in 19-2 - AZNude
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