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* SpiritualSuccessor: Noah Hawley would revisit a lot of the humor and themes in ''Series/{{Fargo}}'', which had a number of actors from The Unusuals.
** The show itself is one to ''Series/{{MASH}}''.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop -- The {{Aesop}} of "The Circle Line" seems to be "cops deserve extra slack, even if they might have committed a major felony."
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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** The series aired shortly before the US premiere of ''Film/TheHurtLocker'', which picked up Creator/JeremyRenner an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and a few years prior to Renner's mainstream breakthrough as [[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
** ''The Unusuals'' also marks the on-screen debut of Creator/AdamDriver, who appears in the last episode.
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** She is, however, the snarkiest of a cast of [[Deadpan Snarker]]s.

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** She is, however, the snarkiest of a cast of [[Deadpan Snarker]]s.{{Deadpan Snarker}}s.
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** She is, however, the snarkiest of a cast of DeadpanSnarkers.

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** She is, however, the snarkiest of a cast of DeadpanSnarkers.[[Deadpan Snarker]]s.
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** And she's the main link to the show's focus on post-recession class dynamics.
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** She is, however, the snarkiest of a cast of DeadpanSnarkers.
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*VanillaProtagonist: Casey is the least unusual of The Unusuals, thus, she highlights their unusualness.
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* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: Casey is much more normal than nearly all the other characters, which tends to make her less interesting.
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* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: Casey is much more normal than nearly all the other characters, which tends to make her less interesting.
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* TooGoodToLast -- YMMV, but cancelled after 10 episodes, just as the show was finding it's feet, the characters were starting to settle, and they had ended the not so great arc involving Cole's old partner.

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* TooGoodToLast -- YMMV, but cancelled after 10 episodes, just as the show was finding it's feet, the characters were starting to settle, and they had ended the not so great arc involving Cole's old partner.

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\n* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop -- The {{Aesop}} of "The Circle Line" seems to be "cops deserve extra slack, even if they might have committed a major felony."
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap -- Alvarez. Started off as especially annoying, setup as a complete and unrepentant jerkass, but grown as a character in subsequent episodes, almost to the point of EnsembleDarkhorse.
* TooGoodToLast -- YMMV, but cancelled after 10 episodes, just as the show was finding it's feet, the characters were starting to settle, and they had ended the not so great arc involving Cole's old partner.partner.
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