History Series / Graceland

* ShoutOut: During the 3rd episode, Charlie's informant Whistler sets up a drug buy that would allow Charlie to bust a major meth kingpin. When Whistler's buyer is impressed at the purity of the meth that Whistler brings, the response is basically "What did I tell you? It's not [[Series/BreakingBad the blue stuff]], but it's good."

** The second episode ends with [[spoiler: Briggs holding Mike at gunpoint quite unexpectedly and demanding, "Who've you been talking to?" But it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the next episode, which reveals he was just asking because he knew someone was listening to maintain a cover.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Mike has a pretty intense one after [[spoiler:Eddy]] kills himself. Of course, it doesn't help matters that right after watching [[spoiler:Eddy]] blow his brains out, he has to go home and [[OutDamnedSpot clean up a sink full of blood-red spaghetti sauce from dinner.]]

** TheChick: Paige.

* NaughtyNarcs: At the end of the second season, [[spoiler:Paige, the house's resident DEA agent, betrays Mike in revenge for his allowing a prostitute to die as part of an op.]]

* SkewedPriorities: Every agent in Graceland seems to have this problem during Season 2's investigation and operations against the Solano Cartel and the dirty cops, at least in relation to an end goal of bringing them down. Unfortunately, the obsessions each agent has makes the drama feel more like an IdiotPlot due to how much they're compromising the investigation for their own needs. One notable example is that Paige the ''DEA agent'' cares less about dealing with the actual ''drug-running'' part of the cartel, and more about the human-trafficking/sex slavery operation that turns out was heavily disapproved by the cartel boss. It gets to a point where she seemingly holds Mike to the same contempt as a human-trafficker for lying about [[spoiler:Lena's death]], without sympathizing with his own time in the traffickers' den.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Mike is quite weirded out on his return to Graceland at the start of Season 2, what with there being guns downstairs, Briggs being more chill and less driven, and [[GrumpyBear Jakes]] actually being ''nice''.

** TheBigGuy: DJ, although not actually the biggest, is the GrumpyBear that everyone knows to stay clear of upsetting, and is also the closest thing to a ByTheBookCop so far. Charlie may also qualify as TheBigGirl, because she's tough as nails and can definitely keep the others in line via sheer force of personality.

* InvokedTrope: Used regularly on the show. The undercovers use many standard tropes and stereotypes to make their targets think that they can be trusted. Briggs invokes RealityIsUnrealistic to convince some drug dealers that his badge is fake and he is just an actor who played a cop in a movie. Johny invokes TattooedCrook to make people believe that he really is a hardcore Latino gang banger.

* YourCheatingHeart: At the beginning of season 2 Mike is involved with a coworker from the Washington DC office. When he goes back to California he ends up sleeping with [[spoiler: Paige]].

''Graceland'' is an hour-long drama series on the Creator/USANetwork that premiered in June 2013. Created by Jeff Eastin, it focuses on a group of undercover agents from various United States law enforcement agencies, including Customs, the DEA, and the FBI, who live together in a Southern California beach house dubbed 'Graceland'. Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren, despite graduating first in his class and requesting a post in Washington, is assigned to Graceland to be trained in undercover operations by the enigmatic Paul Briggs.

* BigBad: The Caza Cartel to the team. Also, Odin Rossi, though to a lesser degree.

''Graceland'' is an hour-long drama series on the Creator/USANetwork that began airing in June of 2013. Created by Jeff Eastin, it focuses on a group of undercover agents from various United States law enforcement agencies, including Customs, the DEA, and the FBI, who live together in a Southern California beach house dubbed 'Graceland'. Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren, despite graduating first in his class and requesting a post in Washington, is assigned to Graceland to be trained in undercover operations by the enigmatic Paul Briggs.

The show has been renewed for a second and a third season.

** [MrFanservice Mike]] - the second episode features some [[FemaleGaze gratuitous close-ups]] of his butt in boxer briefs, and his stomach got some equally gratuitous screentime in the first episode. {{ShirtlessScene}}s are also not uncommon.
** [[MrFanservice Johnny]] gets a couple of {{ShirtlessScene}}s, one fresh out of the shower and wearing only a ModestyTowel.

* FiveFiveFive

* BadassBookworm: Mike is one of the highest scoring graduates from the FBI academy, second only to Briggs himself.

** Mike - the second episode features some gratuitous close-ups of his butt in boxer briefs, and his stomach got some equally gratuitous screentime in the first episode. Shirtless scenes are also not uncommon.
** Johnny gets a couple of shirtless scenes, one fresh out of the shower and wearing only a towel.
** Paige sports a bikini in a number of episodes.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Briggs and Mike sold a bunch of armor piercing "cop killer" bullets to a gang member to establish their cover. However, they cannot allow this ammunition to actually be used by the gang so Briggs gets another gang to rob the shipment and buys the ammunition back using the same money the first gang paid him.

** Despite everything he does over the course of the first season, [[spoiler:Briggs]] gets off scott free at the end due to sucessfully framing several other people to take the fall for him.

* ManipulativeBastard/ManipulativeBitch: Arguably, everyone in the house qualifies, because the characters' jobs as undercover agents require them to manipulate their targets into a position easy for the feds to carry out an arrest. Notable characters that go beyond these instances include:

* PunchClockVillain: One of the dealers Mike meets is a genuinely nice guy with a loving family, who only sells illegal product to make a living.

* RageBreakingPoint: Johnny, ChivalrousPervert and genuine NiceGuy, is worried about [[LockedOutOfTheLoop the way everyone's been acting strangely]]. [[spoiler:He tries to bring everyone together with a birthday party for Jakes. As thanks, everyone leaves early, Charlie stabs the bouncing castle, and Jakes punches him in the face. Finally at the end of his rope, Johnny delivers a very deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the rest of the house.]]

* SequelHook: Season 1 ends with [[spoiler:a couple teenagers finding the missing recording of Briggs killing Juan at a pawn shop. Meanwhile, Mike gets a phonecall from Briggs, who says there's something he needs to tell him...]]

* YourCheatingHeart: At the beginning of season 2 Mike is involved with coworker from the Washington DC office. When he goes back to California he ends up sleeping with [[spoiler: Paige]].

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lauren makes it look like the Russian gangsters beat her up so it triggers Briggs' BerserkButton and he supports her in a risky operation to bring the Russians down.

* ShallowLoveInterest: Abby.

''Graceland'' is an hour-long drama series on the USANetwork that began airing in June of 2013. Created by Jeff Eastin, it focuses on a group of undercover agents from various United States law enforcement agencies, including Customs, the DEA, and the FBI, who live together in a Southern California beach house dubbed 'Graceland'. Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren, despite graduating first in his class and requesting a post in Washington, is assigned to Graceland to be trained in undercover operations by the enigmatic Paul Briggs.

* CaliforniaDoubling: A rather odd inversion. The show takes place in Southern California, and the pilot ''was'' filmed there, but the remainder of the show is filmed in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

** TheBigGuy: DJ, although not actually the biggest, is the GrumpyBear that everyone knows to stay clear of upsetting, and is also the closest thing to a ByTheBookCop so far. Charlie may also qualify as TheBigGirl, because she can definitely keep the others in line via sheer force of personality.

** Any undercover operation can become this since after months of hard work, you still might not have enough evidence to arrest your targets. The big concern is that the operation does not become a ShootTheShaggyDogStory

* WaxOn,WaxOff: Subverted. Briggs uses this with the chore wheel as a way to get Mike to do his chores for him, pretending that it's an exercise in name association, when really Briggs is just lazy. Mike sees through it, but still does the chores.

** Episode seven. Bello is given a packet of heroin as a gesture of good faith from the elusive Oden Rossi, and demands that Oden deliver it to him in person. [[spoiler: Briggs tells him, "He just did." Oden Rossi, the elusive druglord Charlie is chasing, is none other than Paul Briggs.]]

** Briggs bets the success of an operation on the fact that a low level lackey is too stupid/lazy to change the route he always takes to his boss's warehouse.

The show has been renewed for a second season.

** Paige's increasingly personal obsession with the human-trafficking operation of the Solano cartel (and Lena, one of the girls she meets in the investigation) in Season 2. [[spoiler: She focuses exclusively on this aspect of the investigation, despite being a DEA agent that should presumably be focused on the ''drug'' part of the cartel's activities. She goes behind Mike's back and uses Brigg's cover to push the dirty cops into massacring the sex-traffickers, nearly killing Mike in the process when he learns that Carlos Sr. actually disapproved of the operation, enough to beat up Carlito (the real brain of that operation) and would have presumably shut it down himself. Despite Mike easily forgiving her for nearly compromising the investigation and killing him, she refuses to let him of the hook for incinerating Lena's body (without even asking for his side of the story). Despite every Graceland member working on the case or on some potentially violent loose end (Charlie seeking out Amber), she continues looking into an irrelevant lead of the cartel case. When she finally hears Mike admit that Lena is dead, she does not even ask for details, and chooses to tell the corrupt cop, Markham, where Mike is hospitalized, giving him the opportunity to murder him. Perhaps the worst thing is that Paige's obsession was counterproductive, as the cartel is now led by a new violent and amoral leader, the cartel has a new method of moving drugs through plane drops, and Markham is not arrested and possibly murdered the lead investigator.]]

** Paige's increasingly personal obsession with the human-trafficking operation of the Solano cartel (and Lena, one of the girls she meets in the investigation) in Season 2. [[spoiler: She focuses exclusively on this aspect of the investigation, despite being a DEA agent that should presumably be focused on the ''drug'' part of the cartel's activities. She goes behind Mike's back and uses Brigg's cover to push the dirty cops into massacring the sex-traffickers, nearly killing Mike in the process when he learns that Carlos Sr. actually disapproved of the operation, enough to beat up Carlito (the real brain of that operation) and would have presumably shut it down himself. Despite Mike easily forgiving her for nearly compromising the investigation and killing him, she refuses to let him of the hook for incinerating Lena's body (without even asking for his side of the story). Despite every Graceland member working on the case or on some potentially violent loose end (Charlie seeking out Amber), she continues looking into an irrelevant lead of the cartel case. When she finally hears Mike admit that Lena is dead, she does even ask for details, and chooses to tell the corrupt cop, Markham, where Mike is hospitalized, giving him the opportunity to murder him. Perhaps the worst thing is that Paige's obsession was counterproductive, as the cartel is now led by a new violent and amoral leader, the cartel has a new method of moving drugs through plane drops, and Markham is not arrested and possibly murdered the lead investigator.]]