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''Shades of Blue'' is an American PoliceProcedural television series created by Adi Hasak and currently airs on Creator/{{NBC}} when the first episode aired on January 7, 2016. It stars Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/DreaDeMatteo and Creator/WarrenKole.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos (Music/JenniferLopez) is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl (Creator/WarrenKole) gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos (Music/JenniferLopez) is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl (Creator/WarrenKole) gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
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''Shades of Blue'' is an American PoliceProcedural television series created by Adi Hasak and currently airs on Creator/{{NBC}} when the first episode aired on January 7, 2016. It stars Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/JenniferLopez, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/DreaDeMatteo and Creator/WarrenKole.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos(Music/JenniferLopez) (Creator/JenniferLopez) is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl (Creator/WarrenKole) gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: The FBI is portrayed positively in the series, even though when going after {{Dirty Cop}}s in an anti-corruption probe, they do it by threatening Det. Santos with arrest, risking her daughter's safety, her education and potentially placing her in foster care. Outside of that most of their villainy is made by Stahl, with the other {{FBI Agent}}s being {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s that get Stahl fired after Harlee proves his crimes.
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* RussianRoulette: Instigates one to Loman in order to intimidate him by giving him a seemingly unloaded revolver. It didn't work since Loman refused to use it.
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* RussianRoulette: Instigates Tufo instigates one to on Loman in order to intimidate him by giving him a seemingly unloaded revolver. It didn't work since Loman refused to use it.
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''Shades of Blue'' is an American PoliceProcedural television series created by Adi Hasak and currently airs on NBC when the first episode aired on January 7, 2016. It stars Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/RayLiotta, [[Series/TheSopranos Drea de Matteo]] and Creator/WarrenKole.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
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''Shades of Blue'' is an American PoliceProcedural television series created by Adi Hasak and currently airs on NBC Creator/{{NBC}} when the first episode aired on January 7, 2016. It stars Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/RayLiotta, [[Series/TheSopranos Drea de Matteo]] Creator/DreaDeMatteo and Creator/WarrenKole.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos (Music/JenniferLopez) is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl (Creator/WarrenKole) gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
Taking place in New York City, Detective Harlee Santos (Music/JenniferLopez) is a single mother who is struggling to ensure her only child's future by putting her up in a good school. To do this, she works with {{Dirty Cop}}s to solve her financial problems. When the FBI arrests her during an anti-corruption operation, FBI Special Agent Robert Stahl (Creator/WarrenKole) gives her AnOfferYouCantRefuse: go to prison for being on the take as a corrupt police officer or help the [=FBI=] in hunting down Dirty Cops in her precinct and feed back information to him without being caught by her fellow officers.
* ArmedBlag: The big score the FBI is after in season 1 is the robbery of an armored truck hauling evidence money, which Woz's unit will be involved in.
* AttemptedRape:
** Harlee is almost raped by Miguel and [[spoiler:Stahl]] at different points.
** Sofia is almost raped by Tufo when he's trying to intimidate her into telling him if she's an FBI mole.
* AttemptedRape:
** Harlee is almost raped by Miguel and [[spoiler:Stahl]] at different points.
** Sofia is almost raped by Tufo when he's trying to intimidate her into telling him if she's an FBI mole.
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-->'''Det. Santos''': You never said anything about wearing a wire.
-->'''SA Stahl''': I didn't say anything about a lot of things.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: The FBI is portrayed positively in the series, even though when going after Dirty Cops in an anti-corruption probe, they do it by threatening Det. Santos with arrest, risking her daughter's safety, her education and and potentially placing her in foster care.
-->'''SA Stahl''': I didn't say anything about a lot of things.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: The FBI is portrayed positively in the series, even though when going after Dirty Cops in an anti-corruption probe, they do it by threatening Det. Santos with arrest, risking her daughter's safety, her education and and potentially placing her in foster care.
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-->'''Det. Santos''': You never said anything about wearing a wire.
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'''SA Stahl''': I didn't say anything about a lot of things.
* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: After a series of officer shootings, Saperstein wonders if they'll start to have to wear Kevlar when they shower.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: The FBI is portrayed positively in the series, even though when going afterDirty Cops {{Dirty Cop}}s in an anti-corruption probe, they do it by threatening Det. Santos with arrest, risking her daughter's safety, her education and and potentially placing her in foster care. Outside of that most of their villainy is made by Stahl, with the other {{FBI Agent}}s being {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s that get Stahl fired after Harlee proves his crimes.
* CopKillerManhunt: Woz team starts tearing the city apart after his son gets shoot.
* DeathOfAChild: Woz teenage daughter committed suicide, which wrecked both him and his wife. It's also partly why he sees Harlee as his surrogate daughter.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: The FBI explicitly uses the threat of Cristina ending up in foster care if they arrest Harlee to convince her to become TheMole for them.
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'''SA Stahl''': I didn't say anything about a lot of things.
* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: After a series of officer shootings, Saperstein wonders if they'll start to have to wear Kevlar when they shower.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: The FBI is portrayed positively in the series, even though when going after
* CopKillerManhunt: Woz team starts tearing the city apart after his son gets shoot.
* DeathOfAChild: Woz teenage daughter committed suicide, which wrecked both him and his wife. It's also partly why he sees Harlee as his surrogate daughter.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: The FBI explicitly uses the threat of Cristina ending up in foster care if they arrest Harlee to convince her to become TheMole for them.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Tufo cracks several sick jokes at drug lord Mendez's expense after they forced two of his gang members to rape him.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Wozniak and his team are big proponents of the Blue Wall, a system where cops cover for other cops and protect them from investigation by Internal Affairs and the FBI. However, when they try to bring down the murderous Intelligence Unit, they find themselves on the other side of the Wall. They become PersonaNonGrata in their own precinct and other cops obstruct them at every turn. When they are trapped in a gun battle, their backup just turns around and drives away.
* KarmicDeath: Quite a few, notably Miguel. The second he gets out of prison, he tries to force his way back into Harlee and Cristina's lives then tries to rape Harlee, only for her to snap his neck.
* OhCrap: In the middle of "Pilot", Det. Santos draws her Glock 19 on a supposed crook who refuses to give a bribe [[spoiler:before she finds out that she was lured into a FBI trap in order to arrest her as part of an anti-DirtyCop probe.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The reason why the Dirty Cops help criminals so that the worst ones (most of them) stay off the streets.
-->'''Lt. Wozniak''': I sacrifice for the needs of the neighborhood, and you, my friend, are on the other side of that scale.
* KarmicDeath: Quite a few, notably Miguel. The second he gets out of prison, he tries to force his way back into Harlee and Cristina's lives then tries to rape Harlee, only for her to snap his neck.
* OhCrap: In the middle of "Pilot", Det. Santos draws her Glock 19 on a supposed crook who refuses to give a bribe [[spoiler:before she finds out that she was lured into a FBI trap in order to arrest her as part of an anti-DirtyCop probe.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The reason why the Dirty Cops help criminals so that the worst ones (most of them) stay off the streets.
-->'''Lt. Wozniak''': I sacrifice for the needs of the neighborhood, and you, my friend, are on the other side of that scale.
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* FairCop: HollywoodBeautyStandards are very much at play at Harlee's precinct, with almost all of her colleagues being very attractive, with Harlee herself being the show's MsFanservice.
* ForcedToWatch: A "forced to listen" variation and rare heroic example. Harlee gets back at Stahl for forcing a wire on her by seducing and sleeping with DA Nava, forcing Stahl to have to listen in to her having sex with another man.
* HiredToHuntYourself: Harlee is put in this situation when helping Woz flush out the TheMole, since it's her.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Wozniak and his team are big proponents of the Blue Wall, a system where cops cover for other cops and protect them from an investigation byInternal Affairs InternalAffairs and the FBI. However, when they try to bring down the murderous Intelligence Unit, they find themselves on the other side of the Wall. They become PersonaNonGrata in their own precinct and other cops obstruct them at every turn. When they are trapped in a gun battle, their backup just turns around and drives away.
* KarmicDeath: Quite a few, notably Miguel. The second he gets out of prison, he tries to force his way back into Harlee and Cristina's lives then tries to rape Harlee, only for her to [[NeckSnap snap hisneck.
neck]].
* KarmicRape: When drug lord Mendez tries to {{Blackmail}} Wozniak by threatening to spread the news that Wozniak is bi, Woz has two gang members orally rape Mendez and films the whole thing.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Julia Ayres used the chaos caused by Hurricane Sandy to steal a ton of evidence, and used it to trade favors to guarantee a position in the mayor’s office.
* LieDetector: Wozniak trained all his team to be able to beat lie detectors, which turns out to be inconvenient when he's trying to flush out TheMole.
* MurderSuicide: This was Stahl's plan for him and Harlee during the GrandFinale, but Cristina foiled his plan and he ended up being killed by Harlee.
* NudityEqualsHonesty:
** When accused of being TheMole by Wozniak, Harlee invokes those by [[DefiantStrip stripping down to her underwear to prove she isn't wearing a wire]]. Woz believes her and is too ashamed to look at her and properly check. Cue the camera panning behind Harlee, where we see her wire attached to the back of her bra.
** When Cole gives Harlee info on his old unit, they both meet in a pool, strip down to swimwear and get into the water in order to prove neither of them is wearing a wire.
* OhCrap: In the middle of "Pilot", Det. Santos draws her Glock 19 on a supposed crook who refuses to give a bribe [[spoiler:before she finds out that she was lured intoa an FBI trap in order to arrest her as part of an anti-DirtyCop probe.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The reason why theDirty Cops {{Dirty Cop}}s help criminals so that the worst ones (most of them) stay off the streets.
-->'''Lt. Wozniak''': -->'''Wozniak''': I sacrifice for the needs of the neighborhood, and you, my friend, are on the other side of that scale.scale.
* RagingStiffie: While doing physical therapy after being shot, Wozniak accidentally gets aroused by his male therapist, but blames it on the attractive woman next to him [[WorkoutFanservice doing her workout]].
-->'''Wozniak:''' ''[awkwardly trying to explain it]'' When you got Helen of Troy over there doing [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility her flexibility exercises]], it kinda makes it...
* ForcedToWatch: A "forced to listen" variation and rare heroic example. Harlee gets back at Stahl for forcing a wire on her by seducing and sleeping with DA Nava, forcing Stahl to have to listen in to her having sex with another man.
* HiredToHuntYourself: Harlee is put in this situation when helping Woz flush out the TheMole, since it's her.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Wozniak and his team are big proponents of the Blue Wall, a system where cops cover for other cops and protect them from an investigation by
* KarmicDeath: Quite a few, notably Miguel. The second he gets out of prison, he tries to force his way back into Harlee and Cristina's lives then tries to rape Harlee, only for her to [[NeckSnap snap his
* KarmicRape: When drug lord Mendez tries to {{Blackmail}} Wozniak by threatening to spread the news that Wozniak is bi, Woz has two gang members orally rape Mendez and films the whole thing.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Julia Ayres used the chaos caused by Hurricane Sandy to steal a ton of evidence, and used it to trade favors to guarantee a position in the mayor’s office.
* LieDetector: Wozniak trained all his team to be able to beat lie detectors, which turns out to be inconvenient when he's trying to flush out TheMole.
* MurderSuicide: This was Stahl's plan for him and Harlee during the GrandFinale, but Cristina foiled his plan and he ended up being killed by Harlee.
* NudityEqualsHonesty:
** When accused of being TheMole by Wozniak, Harlee invokes those by [[DefiantStrip stripping down to her underwear to prove she isn't wearing a wire]]. Woz believes her and is too ashamed to look at her and properly check. Cue the camera panning behind Harlee, where we see her wire attached to the back of her bra.
** When Cole gives Harlee info on his old unit, they both meet in a pool, strip down to swimwear and get into the water in order to prove neither of them is wearing a wire.
* OhCrap: In the middle of "Pilot", Det. Santos draws her Glock 19 on a supposed crook who refuses to give a bribe [[spoiler:before she finds out that she was lured into
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The reason why the
* RagingStiffie: While doing physical therapy after being shot, Wozniak accidentally gets aroused by his male therapist, but blames it on the attractive woman next to him [[WorkoutFanservice doing her workout]].
-->'''Wozniak:''' ''[awkwardly trying to explain it]'' When you got Helen of Troy over there doing [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility her flexibility exercises]], it kinda makes it...
* RetargetedLust:
** In one episode, Stahl is shown with a Harlee look-a-like escort.
** When Wozniak gets accidentally turned on by his physical therapist, he quickly drags his wife to their [[AutoErotica van for a quickie]], despite her worries that having sex might be bad for his recovery.
* RightThroughTheWall: After Harlee and Nava sleep together for the first time, he mentions he will have to write an apology noise to his neighbors for all the noise they made. {{Justified|Trope}} since Harlee knew she was still wired and Stahl was listening in, so it's implied she [[SexGoddess brought her A-game]] and [[TheImmodestOrgasm made herself louder in bed]] just to mess with him.
* RussianRoulette: Instigates one to Loman in order to intimidate him by giving him a seemingly unloaded revolver. It didn't work since Loman refused to use it.
* ShadesOfConflict: There's a lot of GreyAndGrayMorality and BlackAndGrayMorality on the show, given all the unscrupulous methods the cops and the FBI use to catch criminals.
* ShowerOfAngst: In "Eye of the Hurricane", Harlee cries in the shower (With ShouldersUpNudity) as we hear a voiceover of Woz angry at her for various past actions. She also stares at the missing shower clip from her shower curtain that was lost when she used the curtains to wrap up Miguel's body after she killed him.
** In one episode, Stahl is shown with a Harlee look-a-like escort.
** When Wozniak gets accidentally turned on by his physical therapist, he quickly drags his wife to their [[AutoErotica van for a quickie]], despite her worries that having sex might be bad for his recovery.
* RightThroughTheWall: After Harlee and Nava sleep together for the first time, he mentions he will have to write an apology noise to his neighbors for all the noise they made. {{Justified|Trope}} since Harlee knew she was still wired and Stahl was listening in, so it's implied she [[SexGoddess brought her A-game]] and [[TheImmodestOrgasm made herself louder in bed]] just to mess with him.
* RussianRoulette: Instigates one to Loman in order to intimidate him by giving him a seemingly unloaded revolver. It didn't work since Loman refused to use it.
* ShadesOfConflict: There's a lot of GreyAndGrayMorality and BlackAndGrayMorality on the show, given all the unscrupulous methods the cops and the FBI use to catch criminals.
* ShowerOfAngst: In "Eye of the Hurricane", Harlee cries in the shower (With ShouldersUpNudity) as we hear a voiceover of Woz angry at her for various past actions. She also stares at the missing shower clip from her shower curtain that was lost when she used the curtains to wrap up Miguel's body after she killed him.
* TurnInYourBadge:: Both Tess and Tufo lose their badges and are demoted to patrol officers in season 3.
* UnusualEuphemism: Tess talks about "taking the concrete plunge" when she thinks she's about to be throw out the window to make [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident her death look like a suicide or accident]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Harlee and many other DirtyCops justify their corruption as a "greater good" by using unscrupulous means to deal with crime, but they're just as often acting like criminals.
* UnusualEuphemism: Tess talks about "taking the concrete plunge" when she thinks she's about to be throw out the window to make [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident her death look like a suicide or accident]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Harlee and many other DirtyCops justify their corruption as a "greater good" by using unscrupulous means to deal with crime, but they're just as often acting like criminals.
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** In "Pilot", Det. Santos grudgingly agrees to be a covert FBI mole in the NYPD. [[spoiler:She later finds out that Lt. Wozniak suspects that the FBI planted a mole in his unit and wants to get rid of said person. Said person being Santos.]]
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** In "Pilot", Det. Santos grudgingly agrees to be a covert FBI mole [[TheMole mole]] in the NYPD. [[spoiler:She later finds out that Lt. Wozniak suspects that the FBI planted a mole in his unit and wants to get rid of said person. Said person being Santos.]]
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** In "Broken Dolls", Stahl kidnaps Harlee after he gets removed from the FBI. [[spoiler:Adrian, the son of a woman who agreed to testify, shoots Wozniak at the lobby of the 64th.]]
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** In "Broken Dolls", Stahl kidnaps Harlee after he gets removed from the FBI. [[spoiler:Adrian, the son of a woman who agreed to testify, shoots Wozniak at the lobby of the 64th.]]]]
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* DisappearedDad: Harlee tells her daughter Christine when she asks that her father didn't want to be a part of their lives. It turns out she's lying though-he was a criminal who [[DomesticAbuse abused Harlee]], and she [[FrameUp framed him]] for murder to get rid of the guy. However, his conviction is eventually revealed as wrongful, he's released and learns that he has a daughter. After learning about the lie, Christine no longer trusts what Harlee tells her of him and gets closer to her father, despite Harlee's dismay. [[spoiler:Harlee eventually kills him when he attacks her.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Harlee tells her daughter Christine Cristina when she asks that her father didn't want to be a part of their lives. It turns out she's lying though-he was a criminal who [[DomesticAbuse abused Harlee]], and she [[FrameUp framed him]] for murder to get rid of the guy. However, his conviction is eventually revealed as wrongful, he's released and learns that he has a daughter. After learning about the lie, Christine Cristina no longer trusts what Harlee tells her of him and gets closer to her father, despite Harlee's dismay. [[spoiler:Harlee eventually kills him when he attacks her.]]
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* EvilVsEvil: In the 3rd season, Wozniak and his subordinates face off against a rogue NYPD division in league with drug smuggling gangs.
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* EvilVsEvil: EvilVersusEvil: In the 3rd season, Wozniak and his subordinates face off against a rogue NYPD division in league with drug smuggling gangs.
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''Shades of Blue'' is an American PoliceProcedural television series created by Adi Hasak and currently airs on NBC when the first episode aired on January 7, 2016. It stars Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/RayLiotta, [[Series/TheSopranos Drea de Matteo]] and Warren Kole.
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''Shades of Blue'' is an American PoliceProcedural television series created by Adi Hasak and currently airs on NBC when the first episode aired on January 7, 2016. It stars Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/RayLiotta, [[Series/TheSopranos Drea de Matteo]] and Warren Kole.
Creator/WarrenKole.
