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* ReallyGetsAround: Though it isn't focused on, Syd seems to have casual sex pretty often. She's shown having had women over for sex twice while not being in a relationship with either of them, then later hits on two twin guys she meets in a bar, giving her card to the pair so they'll call her later so they can hook up.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Though it isn't focused on, Syd seems to have casual sex pretty often. She's shown having had women over for sex twice while not being in a relationship with either of them, then later the same going for Warren (her ex-boyfriend) and Jason, who she hooks up with. Later Syd hits on two twin guys she meets in a bar, giving her card to the pair so they'll call her later so they can hook up.
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** Patrick is later blackmailed again after he's drugged, making him act like a wild party animal, and it's recorded.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Though it isn't focused on, Syd seems to have casual sex pretty often. She's shown having had women over for sex twice while not being in a relationship with either of them, then later hits on two twin guys she meets in a bar, giving her card to the pair so they'll call her later so they can hook up.
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* SlippingAMickey: Patrick's drink is drugged so he acts inappropriately and gets filmed as {{blackmail}}.
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Nancy and Nico's dad isn't shown or mentioned in the present nor the flashbacks of their past. It's likely he left the family.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Nancy and Nico's dad says she never knew her dad. Her brother Nico is nowhere to be seen, either in the past or present. younger, so presumably they're half-siblings, though there's no sign his was around. She says as a kid she'd often wonder about him, hoping he'd appear. Their mother meanwhile was killed [[spoiler:by Nico while protecting Nancy from her abuse]].
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* ParentalSubstitute: Nancy is a good surrogate mom to her stepdaughter Izzy, who lost her birth mother to a drunk driver years ago. They have the expected spats of a teenage daughter and mom, though Nancy is sometimes more supportive of her than Izzy's dad is. It's likely she's so determined to be a good parent as a result of having an [[AbusiveParents abusive mother growing up herself]].
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* ParentalSubstitute: Nancy is a good surrogate mom to her stepdaughter Izzy, who lost her birth mother to a drunk driver years ago. They have the expected spats of a teenage daughter and mom, though Nancy is sometimes more supportive of her than Izzy's dad is. It's likely she's so determined to be a good parent as a result of having an [[AbusiveParents abusive mother growing up herself]]. Even after her marriage with Izzy's father Patrick breaks down, Nancy's reluctant to end it as she doesn't want to leave Izzy.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Nancy is a good surrogate mom to her stepdaughter Izzy, who lost her birth mother to a drunk driver years ago. They have the expected spats of a teenage daughter and mom, though Nancy is sometimes more supportive of her than Izzy's dad is. It's likely she's so determined to be a good parent as a result of having an [[AbusiveParents abusive mother growing up herself]].
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* IHaveNoSon: {{Inverted}}. Ben Walker has disowned his criminal mom, who's in prison, even telling his partner she died because she's now dead to him.
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* LastNameBasis: Syd usually calls Nancy by her last name, [=McKenna=].
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* DemolitionsExpert: Nancy was an EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal) expert in the Navy. This comes in handy when she and Syd are forced to deal with a bomb.
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* DemolitionsExpert: Nancy was an EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal) expert in the Navy. This comes in handy when she and Syd are forced to deal with a bomb.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Patrick is blackmailed over Nancy being involved with covering [[spoiler:her mom's death up]]. Carlene, the blackmailer, has dirt on prosecutors, judges and politicians to aid her drug trafficking operations.
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** Patrick is blackmailed over Nancy being involved with covering [[spoiler:her mom's death up]]. Carlene, the blackmailer, has dirt on prosecutors, judges and politicians to aid her drug traffickingoperations.operations.
** Another case also involves blackmail over a compromising video.
** Patrick is blackmailed over Nancy being involved with covering [[spoiler:her mom's death up]]. Carlene, the blackmailer, has dirt on prosecutors, judges and politicians to aid her drug trafficking
** Another case also involves blackmail over a compromising video.
* DeathOfAChild: Nancy's trauma from serving in Iraq was due to having seen a little boy she bonded with killed due to a suicide bomber (his own mother).
* DemolitionsExpert: Nancy was an EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal) expert in the Navy. This comes in handy when she and Syd are forced to deal with a bomb.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:After learning Warren is who shot her after she'd been captured and tortured, Syd realizes this made her miscarry their baby. She throws this in his face later, saying he'd killed their son (even if wasn't knowing or intentional).]]
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** A female suicide bomber Nancy shot in Iraq forced her little son to go with her when she did it, and he was killed by her bomb.
** [[spoiler:After learning Warren is who shot her after she'd been captured and tortured, Syd realizes this made her miscarry their baby. She throws this in his face later, saying he'd killed their son (even if wasn't knowing or intentional).
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In one episode, an Army soldier with PTSD (who's gone AWOL from his unit and is now a homeless drug addict) is a murder witness. Nancy, who's served in the Navy, uses her military past and difficulty adjusting to help him open up by empathizing with him.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: In one episode, an Army soldier with PTSD (who's gone AWOL from his unit and is now a homeless drug addict) is a murder witness. Nancy, who's served in the Navy, uses her military past and difficulty adjusting to help him open up by empathizing with him. It later turns out she has lingering PTSD from her service in Iraq, which is triggered during Season 2.
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* TransTribulations: One case involves the murder of a trans woman, which detectives investigating may have been motivated by transphobia. [[spoiler:It turns out to be different though.]] Trans people who the victim knew in a support group mention just how common this is, and some have suffered lesser hate crimes.
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* TransTribulations: One case involves the murder of a trans woman, which detectives investigating feel may have been motivated by transphobia. [[spoiler:It turns out to be different though.]] Trans people who the victim knew in a support group mention just how common this is, and some have suffered lesser hate crimes.
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* TheAtoner: The woman who'd fatally hit Izzy's mom while drunk driving regrets what she did, trying to apologize for it. Izzy [[RejectedApology doesn't accept this though]].
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* DirtyCop: More than one corrupt law enforcement officer's featured, including some in bed with drug traffickers (such as Warren). Syd and Nancy break the rules or commit crimes at times too, although never for personal gain.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:After learning Warren is who shot her after she'd been captured and tortured, Syd realizes this made her miscarry their baby. She throws this in his face later, saying he'd killed their son (even if wasn't knowing or intentional).]]
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* RejectedApology: Izzy doesn't accept the apology of her mom's [[TheAtoner remorseful killer]], because she's still haunted by her death.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Patrick is blackmailed over Nancy being involved with covering [[spoiler:her mom's death up]].
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* IHaveYourWife: Carlene kidnaps [[spoiler:Izzy]] in order to get leverage over [[spoiler:Nancy]].
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* GetOut: Syd angrily orders Warren to do this after he's told her that [[spoiler:he's Gabriel Knox]].
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* GetOut: Syd angrily orders Warren to do this after he's told he tells her that [[spoiler:he's Gabriel Knox]].
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* ActionGirl: Syd and Nancy, being police detectives, are well-trained in using guns or unarmed combat. Nancy also served in the Navy prior to joining the LAPD.
* ActorAllusion: While pretending he's an exterminator once, Joseph (Creator/ErnieHudson) quips "Who you gonna call?" referencing his famous role in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''.
* ActorAllusion: While pretending he's an exterminator once, Joseph (Creator/ErnieHudson) quips "Who you gonna call?" referencing his famous role in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''.
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* GetOut: Syd angrily orders Warren to do this after he's told her that [[spoiler:he's Gabriel Knox]].
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* PleaBargain: [[spoiler:Nico takes one over his mom's death, so it can't get used against Nancy or Patrick.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: In one episode, an Army soldier with PTSD (who's gone AWOL from his unit and is now a homeless drug addict) is a murder witness. Nancy, who's served in the Navy, uses her military past and difficulty adjusting to help him open up by empathizing with him.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In one episode, an Army soldier with PTSD (who's gone AWOL from his unit and is now a homeless drug addict) is a murder witness. Nancy, who's served in the Navy, uses her military past and difficulty adjusting to help him open up by empathizing with him.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Patrick is blackmailed over Nancy being involved with covering [[spoiler:her mom's death up]].
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* WorkoutFanservice: Syd and Nancy are shown working out wearing tight-fitting spandex workout clothes, showing off their athletic, beautiful bodies in the first season.
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* CrimeOfSelfDefense: [[spoiler:Nico shot his and Nancy's mom to stop her beating Nancy. While this was probably legal (defense of others) they were both scared that it wouldn't be taken that way, secretly burying their mom's body with help from a friend to cover it up. The same goes for them in present day.]]
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* TragicStillbirth: Sydney was kidnapped by drug dealers she'd been investigating with the DEA. They tortured her, resulting in her having a miscarriage (she wasn't even aware of being pregnant yet, since it was early on). She nurses a desire for revenge on them for this and is distraught when telling her ex-boyfriend Warren, the father, about what happened.
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* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Nico shot his and Nancy's mom dead due to her physically abusing Nancy.]]
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Nancy and Nico's dad isn't shown or mentioned in the present or the flashbacks of their past. It's likely he left the family.
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* AbusiveParents: Nancy and Nico's mom physically abused them both, including hitting or burning them using cigarettes.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Marcus from the movies ''Film/BadBoys'' is HappilyMarried and is close with his children [[spoiler:and grandchild]] while his father Joseph is just reconciling with Sydney. Subverted in that he is on good terms with [[spoiler:his other daughter and his grandchildren by said daughter]]
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Marcus from the movies ''Film/BadBoys'' is HappilyMarried and is close with his children [[spoiler:and grandchild]] while his father Joseph is just reconciling with Sydney. Subverted in that he is on good terms with [[spoiler:his other daughter and his grandchildren by said daughter]] daughter]].
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Syd learns she has an adult half-sister as a result of her dad cheating with another woman on her mom. Further, she has a niece and nephew, her half-sister's kids.]]
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Syd learns she has an adult half-sister as a result of her dad cheating with another woman on her mom. Further, she has a niece and nephew, her half-sister's kids.]]
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* TomboyishName: Sydney, a tomboyish bisexual woman, usually goes by "Syd".
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* TransTribulations: One case involves the murder of a trans woman, which detectives investigating may have been motivated by transphobia. [[spoiler:It turns out to be different though.]] Trans people who the victim knew in a support group mention just how common this is, and some have suffered lesser hate crimes.
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* AffectionateNickname: Isabel is usually called Izzy by her dad and stepmom.
* {{Bookends}}: Near the start of the pilot episode Syd is in her kitchen one morning with a man, who she thanks for the previous night, but says she does not want a relationship and sends him away with some coffee in one of her "to-go cups". Towards the end of the episode it is another morning and Syd has almost the same conversation again, but this time with a woman.
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* CowboyCop: In her pursuit of Gabriel Knox, Syd becomes this.
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* FairCop: It's Gabrielle Union The two protagonists Syd and Jessica Alba. C'mon, this was inevitable.Nancy are quite beautiful female detectives.
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* MissingMom: The birth mother of Isabel [=McKenna=] was killed in a car crash by a DrunkDriver.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Pun}} Indeed]].]]
A series spun off from the ''Film/BadBoys'' films, with Creator/GabrielleUnion reprising the role of Syd Burnett from ''Film/BadBoysII'', with Syd having been transferred to the [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles LAPD]]. Creator/JessicaAlba plays Syd's partner Nancy [=McKenna=].
The show started in 2019, and was cancelled in 2020 thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. It was the first series created for Spectrum Originals, a streaming service available to Spectrum Cable subscribers; months after its premiere there, it had a brief run on Creator/{{Fox}} to fill a COVID-created hole in their schedule.
[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Pun}} Indeed]].]]
A series spun off from the ''Film/BadBoys'' films, with Creator/GabrielleUnion reprising the role of Syd Burnett from ''Film/BadBoysII'', with Syd having been transferred to the [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles LAPD]]. Creator/JessicaAlba plays Syd's partner Nancy [=McKenna=].
The show started in 2019, and was cancelled in 2020 thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. It was the first series created for Spectrum Originals, a streaming service available to Spectrum Cable subscribers; months after its premiere there, it had a brief run on Creator/{{Fox}} to fill a COVID-created hole in their schedule.
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->'''Syd''': Wow. You just hit me with, like, the angsty teenage girl, "Nothing". Like. "Hey, what are you two doing up in your room with the door closed?" - "Nothing." What's up?\\
'''Nancy''': What WERE you doing upstairs with the door closed, Sydney Gayle Burnett?\\
'''Syd''': Don't use my middle name and don't change the subject.\\
'''Nancy''': You're not the boss of me.
->'''Syd''': Wow. You just hit me with, like, the angsty teenage girl, "Nothing". Like. "Hey, what are you two doing up in your room with the door closed?" - "Nothing." What's up?\\
'''Nancy''': What WERE you doing upstairs with the door closed, Sydney Gayle Burnett?\\
'''Syd''': Don't use my middle name and don't change the subject.\\
'''Nancy''': You're not the boss of me.
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* DiagonalBilling: Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba in the [[https://pixhost.to/show/124/246773252_la-s-finest-diagonal-credits.jpg end credits.credits]]. See also this page's pic.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Finding her daughter working for a website that also involves what appears to be sex toys, Syd and Nancy charge to the company ready to arrest the boss for underage pornography. Then the girl reveals she's just doing ASMR videos to help folks (like her) handle anxiety and the "sex toys" are for sound effects.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Finding her daughter working for a website that also involves what appears to be sex toys, Syd and Nancy and Syd charge to the company ready to arrest the boss for underage pornography. Then the girl Izzie reveals she's just doing ASMR videos to help folks (like her) handle anxiety and the "sex toys" are for sound effects.
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