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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: [[AvertedTrope Surprisingly,]] [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans Mardi Gras never even gets alluded to]] outside of the theme song.]] |
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4 | ->''Katrina brought out the worst in some people. But for the most part, it brought out the best''. |
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6 | '''''K-Ville''''' was a live-action police drama made by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. It aired from September 2007 to December 2007. |
7 | The plot follows two police officers, the longtime New Orleans resident Marlin Boulet (Creator/AnthonyAnderson), who refuses to leave the city after Hurricane Katrina, and his new partner Trevor Cobb (Creator/ColeHauser), a new arrival with a mysterious past and a buried secret, as they try to keep the peace in Post-Katrina New Orleans. |
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9 | Though it was slated to run for one thirteen episode season, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen only ten of those episodes were ever produced due to the writers going on strike.]] An eleventh episode, "Game Night", was announced, but never produced. |
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11 | All ten episodes are available for free through Hulu and Xfinity through TV.com http://www.tv.com/shows/kville/. There has yet to be a DVD release. |
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14 | !! Contains examples of the following tropes: |
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16 | * TheBigEasy: The entire show is set within post-Katrina New Orleans. |
17 | %% * BreatherEpisode: "Critical Mass", by police drama standards. |
18 | * CowboyCop: Boulet will break police protocol without a moment's hesitation if he believes it is the right thing to do. This happens about every other episode. |
19 | * DaChief: Though a captain rather than the police chief, Embry fills this role. The actual police chief, Chief Lewis, is only mentioned once or twice and never appears on-screen. |
20 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Years before the main story line, Cobb was a convict. When the prison flooded, his cellmate and close friend died, and Cobb vowed to become a better person. After Cobb escaped he enlisted in the Army and went to fight in the Afghanistan War. After his tour, he returned to New Orleans to become a policeman, [[ItMakesSenseInContext knowing that his criminal record files had been washed away, damaged or destroyed]] and that he wanted to be a better person. Boulet finds out, and agrees to hide his secret. Throughout the show, Cobb and Boulet struggle to keep this secret hidden.]] |
21 | * DeadpanSnarker: Cobb, usually to Boulet, but he often acts this way to the other characters, too. |
22 | %% * FairCop: Officer [[MeaningfulName LeBeau]]. |
23 | * GoodBadGirl: Elaine [=McGillis=]. She might be a firefighter and an ally of the police, but [[spoiler: that doesn't mean she won't have a one-night-stand with Cobb a couple days after they meet.]] |
24 | * HollywoodVoodoo: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in the episode "No Good Deed", where someone makes it appear as if a woman was murdered by voodoo. When Boulet arrives at the crime scene, he quickly points out that this voodoo was staged, and reveals [[HiddenDepths he learned voodoo in the name of impressing a girl.]] |
25 | * HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Sarah, a prostitute who [[spoiler: became close friends-and possibly more-with Embry, who she met after Hurricane Katrina when she and other refugees stayed in his house. He later has to arrest her due to her indirect involvement in a murder case.]] |
26 | * ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Averted. It's not even set at that time of year. A couple scenes in the theme song allude to Mardi Gras, though. |
27 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Captain Embry may be harsh and demanding, but it's shown over and over again that he really does care about the well-being his squad. |
28 | * MeaningfulName: "Boulet" is French for "cannonball", which is fitting considering Boulet's habit of rushing into things. Also, the very pretty female officer, [=LeBeau=]. |
29 | * MoodWhiplash: The first scene in "Boulet in a China Shop". One second Boulet and co. are singing karaoke in a club, the next they're in a police car racing to the scene of a double murder. |
30 | * RaginCajun: It's set in New Orleans, so this is a given. Most of the police officers could qualify to some degree or another. |
31 | %% * RedOniBlueOni: Boulet to Cobb. |
32 | * SequelHook: One of the final scenes in the final episode, "Ride-Along", ends with [[spoiler: Cobb and Boulet suspecting there is a corrupt cop in the police force who tipped off a major criminal multiple times.]] Too bad the series ended prematurely, and this plot point never got addressed. |
33 | * TheScottishTrope: Hurricane Katrina is almost never mentioned in name by any of the characters; they refer to it as "the storm" or very rarely, "the hurricane" or "Katrina". |
34 | * WhenYouComingHomeDad: Boulet's wife, Ayana, frequently complains to him about not spending enough time with his family, especially his daughter Tawni. |
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