After seeing a preview for “Sleepy Hollow”, it occurred to me that maybe we’ve exhausted the possibilities of this genre. I mean, “Sleepy Hollow”'s theme is “she’s a cop, he’s a 250 year old undead Revolutionary War spy!” Um…what? Then we have “Almost Human”, which steals their premise from Joey Tribiani.
There’s plenty out there - what else do we have? Can we encourage TV execs to move on to the next idea, please?
That’s more of a buddy cop pairing, since neither are LEOs - but it’s certainly of the same “arguably qualified person and their sidekick” formula. Gus certainly brings something to the table during investigations, but usually pretty rarely.
On a technicality, there’s Agents of SHIELD, where the investigation-and-enforcement types who answer to the Deputy Director would be lost without the useful contacts and computer savvy of their new civilian consultant.