Posted on 02/25/2005 4:11:01 PM PST by churchillbuff
As NYPD Blue leaves the air next Tuesday, the 12-year-old cop show will be laureled with words like "gritty" and "uncompromising." That feels half-right. NYPD Blue was uncompromising, all right, but only when it came to love scenes. The brainchild of David Milch and Steven Bochco, Blue was one of network television's great erotic experiments. Its nudity will linger long after its gumshoeing fades. Such brazen sexuality takes a certain degree of skill when one of your romantic leads (Dennis Franz) looks like a lightly medicated version of Captain Kangaroo.
For all its merits, Blue never was much of an "authentic" cop show. ... Blue had more skill at doling out sex in small and enticing bits. Bochco spent the summer of 1993 gleefully offering hints of the depravities to come.
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So now we're just stuck with Dennis Farina's absurdly liberal cop on Law 'n' Order.
LoL..................
I have watched it all. My favorite episodes are those when the mobster shoots Andy in bed with his whore. This argument goes on and on and Andy eventually sends the wittness protected mobster a platefull of dog crap via room service.
It's ending with certain unreality. It seems unlikely that
he could be kicked up to Lt, sidetracking numerous others.
This season hasn't been erotic at all.
I miss Sipowitz' cute kid.
Glad he got promoted. I'll miss him.
Oh man I miss ol' Lenny.
This show was bashed by conservatives and Christians before its first episode... However, it has turned into a real classic... One of the best cop shows ever.
Mike Post's music didn't hurt, either.
But we all knew the end was near when, several years later, his character had been transformed from the hard-nosed, hard-headed, hard-drinking wise-cracking tough guy into a slobbering sentimental wimp, whining "I'm too weak, I'm too weak!" as his partner was dying of a heart condition.
When I saw that episode, I knew the betrayal of Sipowicz's character was complete, and the end was only a matter of time. It was a great show in its earlier years, but it died long before it was taken off the air.
RIP, Andy Sipowicz; Long live Lt. Buntz.
I remember when Dennis Franz's character called Gov. Pataki "My hero" for bringing back the death penalty in New York State!
I'm going to miss that show....it's a favorite of mine.
I never got into this show because of that initial bashing. I was still in Jacksonville when it premiered and that was one of the markets that wouldn't show it until a few seasons had passed.
NYPD Blue was unintentionally funny at times, with the expressive yet goofy cop lingo, "I'll have a good thought" (whenever anyone was in need of prayer) and Medavoy's "pastry fragments."
"It's ending with certain unreality. It seems unlikely that he could be kicked up to Lt, sidetracking numerous others."
There was certain unreality in the show itself....closing a murder case in one day. Dennis Franz's character getting all of the good looking women. Let's face it, he's not exactly Mr. GQ. That title belongs to Det. Baldwin Jones...YUMMY!
Actually it was "Ipsa' this, you pissy little _itch"! Classic line!
The Shield.
Pssst....wrong show - Lenny was on 'Law & Order' and I lost interest when good ol' Lenny started bashing Bush and conservatives in general. The comments always seemed to me to be out of character
"One of the best cop shows ever."
And one of the best NYC shows too, arguably the very best, tho' I think for me that will always be the Odd Couple.. NYPD Blue puts CSI NY to shame.
Interesting. We've rather liked seeing Sipowicz
evolve and grow up. Overcame drinking, the loss of
his first son , his partner, his wife.
A couple episodes ago, the former Andy would've
creamed the perp to a pulp, but the new improved one
talked his way through.
Indeed it was, and it set the tone for the whole series, which is why, IMHO, it has been on life support ever since the writing went down the drain a few years ago. They abandoned everything that made the show great, and went for the cheap, sentimental dreck that is indistinguishable from any other poorly written TV effluvia.
"You likin' this guy for the murder?"
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