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* CopKiller: In Season 3 Owen gets pulled over by a highway patrol officer, shooting him from close range when he stops. He also shoots Sarah (an undercover cop in the car with him) while she's escaping. The officer bleeds out from a neck wound before medical help can arrive.



* TheQueenpin: In Season 3 Renne starts up her own drug operation, having strippes deal cocaine to customers inside the night club she's managing.

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In Season 3 Renne starts up her own drug operation, having strippes deal cocaine to customers inside the night club she's managing.managing.
** Rowena Castro (Lady Castro) is a major player in the drug trade of Tampa, Florida.
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** Osito later goes to a party with Charmaine in Tampa where a guy has his dick out and is openly jerking it there.
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* HasAType: All of the women Jackie is shown being into are feminine ([[ButchLesbian quite unlike herself]]). They're usually blonde and White as well.

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* HasAType: All of the women Jackie is shown being into are feminine ([[ButchLesbian quite unlike herself]]). They're usually blonde and White as well. It turns out this also goes for Ray.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car that belongs to a woman she'd had sex with]], after being unable to remember where either her car or phone were at first.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car that belongs to a woman she'd had sex with]], after being unable to remember where either her car or phone were at first. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's fine, and just had bled from her nose.]]
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* EyeScream: Osito is shot in the left eye during a GanglandDriveBy attempt on his life during Season 3.

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* EyeScream: Osito is shot in the left eye during with a GanglandDriveBy attempt on his life during Season 3.

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** Sarah in Season 3 plays this up while [[HoneyTrap seducing Owen]], flirting with him while in skimpy outfits, giving him a handjob, later sending a selfie of her bare breasts after he sends a dick pic. She's young and pretty, so it's easy. Ray soon falls for Sarah too, having sex with her.



* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted with Charmain, who uses the fact she's just got her period to have Jackie uncuff her so she can take a tampon and then escapes from custody instead.
* OfficeRomance: In the second season, Jackie gets involved with Leslie, her police partner. Leslie previously dated her male partner before Jackie.

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* NoPeriodsPeriod: NoPeriodsPeriod:
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Averted with Charmain, who uses the fact she's just got her period to have Jackie uncuff her so she can take a tampon and then escapes from custody instead.
** Ray later tells Sarah that she can get out of having sex with Owen by claiming she's on her period. She just scoffs at him, saying people their age have sex during it all the time.
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In the second season, Jackie gets involved with Leslie, her police partner. Leslie previously dated her male partner before Jackie.Jackie.
** In Season 3, Ray cheats on Renne with Sarah, an undercover state trooper whom he's handling.

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* AutoErotica: Ray and Sarah have sex in his car during Season 3.



* EyeScream: Osito is shot in the left eye during a GanglandDriveBy attempt on his life during Season 3.



* GanglandDriveBy: In the Season 3 opener a young black woman, Little Sal, is murdered by two {{tattooed|crook}} WhiteGangbangers after they drive up acting like they just want information on buying drugs, then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses). It turns out they come from a rival gang and murdered her in a fight over the local drug trade.

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* GanglandDriveBy: GanglandDriveBy:
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In the Season 3 opener a young black woman, Little Sal, is murdered by two {{tattooed|crook}} WhiteGangbangers after they drive up acting like they just want information on buying drugs, then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses). It turns out they come from a rival gang and murdered her in a fight over the local drug trade.trade.
** Osito is shot a few episodes later by the same pair, although he's armed as well and so returns fire, killing one, but nonetheless gets gravely wounded.



* HoneyTrap: Frankie Cuevas Sr. has his girlfriend Renee act like she's willingly turned informant to Ray, and gets involved with him. Eventually she uses this to record her giving him oral sex on tape, ruining Ray's investigation, and he's suspended.

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Frankie Cuevas Sr. has his girlfriend Renee act like she's willingly turned informant to Ray, and gets involved with him. Eventually she uses this to record her giving him oral sex on tape, ruining Ray's investigation, and he's suspended.
** In Season 3 Sarah, an undercover state trooper, begins seeing criminal Owen Frawley to infiltrate his uncle's syndicate.



* MaleFrontalNudity: Owen pulls out his penis explicitly and jerks it to two strippers in Season 3.

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Owen pulls out his penis explicitly and jerks it to two strippers in Season 3.3.
** Later he sends a dick pic to Sarah, the undercover state trooper whom he's been seduced by.


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* TheQueenpin: In Season 3 Renne starts up her own drug operation, having strippes deal cocaine to customers inside the night club she's managing.
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* MonsterFanGirl: Frankie gets a new girlfriend/drug mule in Season 3 who's a straitlaced woman who is clearly smitten with them, despite definitely knowing that he's a ruthless drug lord. However, as he's a very handsome and charming man it's easy to see why. Frankie clearly is just using her. She's naive and lonely enough to be seduced easily by him into this.

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* MonsterFanGirl: Frankie gets a new girlfriend/drug mule in Season 3 who's named Rachel, a straitlaced woman who is clearly smitten with them, despite definitely knowing that he's a ruthless drug lord. However, as he's also a very handsome and charming man it's easy to see why. Frankie clearly is just using her. She's naive and lonely enough to be seduced easily by him into this.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Owen veers all over the road while nearly running into other cars and pedestrians as he cusses at them when driving with Osito.


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* MaleFrontalNudity: Owen pulls out his penis explicitly and jerks it to two strippers in Season 3.


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* MobWar: Osito goes to war with the Frawleys over drug trafficking in Season 4 when they start supplying his dealers behind his back.
* MonsterFanGirl: Frankie gets a new girlfriend/drug mule in Season 3 who's a straitlaced woman who is clearly smitten with them, despite definitely knowing that he's a ruthless drug lord. However, as he's a very handsome and charming man it's easy to see why. Frankie clearly is just using her. She's naive and lonely enough to be seduced easily by him into this.


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* TraumaButton: Renee has a painful flashback of killing Jorge in the office after she's got to get inside, having obvious lingering trauma from it.


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** Jackie is forced to hand over her gun and badge after she fails a drug test in Season 3, being kicked out of the unit for it.
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The show premiered in May 2020. A second season aired October-December of 2021. It was renewed for a third, final season which began in January 2024.

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* ClosetKey: Leslie tells Jackie she realized she's gay due to being with her, which came as a surprise given it's [[LateComingOut at 35]] after she'd been married to a man before.

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* ClosetKey: Leslie tells Jackie she realized she's gay due to being with her, which came as a surprise given it's [[LateComingOut at 35]] after she'd been married to a man before. Jackie was the first woman she's ever been with.


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* PutOnABus: Leslie doesn't come back after Season 2, with it explained that she has been demoted to highway patrol.
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* ButchLesbian: Jackie always wears men's clothing, has short hair, and notes with pride that she's a "goldstar" lesbian (i.e. she never once had sex with a man). She's very much a [[TheLadette ladette]] in personality, and always tops as she's with women until Season 2, when she bottoms to Leslie once, and explains she doesn't do that usually as topping is part of being butch for her.

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* ButchLesbian: Jackie always wears men's has masculine clothing, has short hair, sports BoyishShortHair, and notes with pride that she's a "goldstar" lesbian (i.e. she (meaning she's never once had sex with a man). She's very much a [[TheLadette ladette]] in personality, and always tops as she's with women until Season 2, when she bottoms to Leslie once, and explains she doesn't do that usually as topping is part of being butch for her.
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* GilliganCut: Ray says there's no way he'll let Jackie borrow his car in Season 3 after she's lost hers. Cut to her driving it in the very next scene.
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* TwoPersonPoolParty: Jackie learns from a video in Season 3 that she and a woman she'd picked up had sex in a hotel pool.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car]] after being unable to remember where either her car or phone were at first.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car]] car that belongs to a woman she'd had sex with]], after being unable to remember where either her car or phone were at first.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Osito is unhappy in Season 3 when his partners shoot down a rival dealer in a GanglandDriveBy as this can bring in too much heat from the cops to his operation. He has no problem with killing, having also previously been [[ProfessionalKiller a hitman]], but is also smart and paranoid about business.
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* ClubKid: Provincetown not only is a {{Gayborhood}} but also a major vacation spot. Because of this, a lot of LGBT+ people (but straight folks too) like to party there. This makes it a major center of drug trafficking. Jackie, the series' protagonist, is a lesbian who's also very into partying starting out. She gets [[RecoveredAddict into recovery]] after a DUI, but goes OffTheWagon later repeatedly too.
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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale. Jackie's being drug tested at work due to her past and thus has to bribe another woman for her urine sample as a result to cover it up.

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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale. Jackie's being drug tested at work due to her past and thus has to bribe another woman for her urine sample as a result to cover it up. She goes out drinking and uses ecstasy with her friend Ray after this too.
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* {{Housewife}}: In Season 3 Ray says Renee is now one, as she's stuck at home caring for their baby and her son. She isn't happy with her situation.

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* {{Housewife}}: In Season 3 Ray says Renee is now one, as she's stuck at home caring for their baby and her son. She isn't happy with her situation. It results in her secretly beginning work again at the strip club (although not stripping) to get out of the house.
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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale. Jackie's being drug tested at work due to her past and has to bribe another woman for her urine sample as a result.

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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale. Jackie's being drug tested at work due to her past and thus has to bribe another woman for her urine sample as a result.result to cover it up.



* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car]].

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car]].car]] after being unable to remember where either her car or phone were at first.
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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale.

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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale. Jackie's being drug tested at work due to her past and has to bribe another woman for her urine sample as a result.
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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again.

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* OffTheWagon: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again [[DrowningMySorrows after Leslie dumps her]] in the Season 2 finale.
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* {{Housewife}}: Ray says Renee is now one, as she's stuck at home caring for their baby and her son. She isn't happy with her situation.

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* {{Housewife}}: In Season 3 Ray says Renee is now one, as she's stuck at home caring for their baby and her son. She isn't happy with her situation.
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* GanglandDriveBy: In the Season 3 opener a young black woman, Little Sal, is murdered by two WhiteGangbangers using after they drive up acting like they just want information (likely on drugs) then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses). It turns out they come from a rival gang and murdered her in a fight over the local drug trade.

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* GanglandDriveBy: In the Season 3 opener a young black woman, Little Sal, is murdered by two {{tattooed|crook}} WhiteGangbangers using after they drive up acting like they just want information (likely on drugs) buying drugs, then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses). It turns out they come from a rival gang and murdered her in a fight over the local drug trade.

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* GanglandDriveBy: In the Season 3 opener, a black girl is murdered by two WhiteGangbangers using after they drive up acting like they just want information (likely on drugs) then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses).

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* GanglandDriveBy: In the Season 3 opener, opener a young black girl woman, Little Sal, is murdered by two WhiteGangbangers using after they drive up acting like they just want information (likely on drugs) then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses).misses). It turns out they come from a rival gang and murdered her in a fight over the local drug trade.


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* {{Housewife}}: Ray says Renee is now one, as she's stuck at home caring for their baby and her son. She isn't happy with her situation.
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** Osito later also has Cuevas shanked in revenge. Though he survives, it's shown in the next season Cuevas has to use a colostomy bag as a result of his injury, as other inmates and a guard all mock him for.
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* DragQueen: As Provincetown is a {{Gayborhood}} drag queens are frequently shown on the city streets. Jackie runs into some in the Season 3 premiere.


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* GanglandDriveBy: In the Season 3 opener, a black girl is murdered by two WhiteGangbangers using after they drive up acting like they just want information (likely on drugs) then one guns her down with a headshot from the car (though after several misses).
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* {{Gayborhood}}: There's a major LGBT+ community on Cape Cod, where Jackie lives. The show is partially centered around Provincetown, one of the major LGBT+ vacation spots, and Jackie takes full advantage of that for picking up women.

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* {{Gayborhood}}: There's a major LGBT+ community on Cape Cod, where Jackie lives. The show is partially centered around Provincetown, one of the major LGBT+ vacation spots, and Jackie takes full advantage of that for picking up women. In the series' intro, scenes of Provincetown include shots of an LGBT+ pride parade and other LGBT+ people on the city streets.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: This is a frequent occurrence for Jackie. She goes on on alcohol and/or drug binges which result in her waking up in strange beds with strange women and no recollection of what she did over the past couple days. It takes a really bad turn in season 3 when [[spoiler: Jackie discovers her one-night-stand's blood covered shirt in the back of her car]].
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Jackie is a woman of Dominican heritage and a ButchLesbian. While the cast has other Latino people and lesbians, she's the only one who's both. The other lesbians are also largely [[LipstickLesbian more femme]].

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* TwoferTokenMinority: Jackie is a woman of Dominican heritage and a ButchLesbian. While the cast has other Latino people and lesbians, she's the only one who's both. The other lesbians are also largely [[LipstickLesbian more femme]].feminine]] and mostly white.

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