SurvivorArctic wrote:
Prime Minister wrote:
Wentworth was one of the most realistic cops I have seen in a while. Cops smack crack whores when they neglect kids, they lay a beatdown on rapists, they do a
lot of things that cop shows can't write into characters on network TV. Audiences prefer saccharine goodie two shoes. I don't know any cops like Liv. I
know plenty like Elliot (who is the best written cop character on network TV, since Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue) and yes, Wentworth's character.
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of The Wire and Homicide:Life on the Streets - those were realistic cops IMO. And Stable has been known to smack a bitch when he needs to and is one of the most emotionally complex characters in tv, but the load of crap served up by Wentworth was just that a load of crap.
He wasn't believable to me. At all. He was wooden in his acting. It was like he was trying to avoid the acting altogether. I know cops, too, and none of them are like Wentworth's character. At all. I know a few like McNulty, though
On the job acts while on the clock, don't usually relate to what people see with cops while off the job.
McNulty was too drunk, too often, he'd be shepherded into a P.A./P.B.A. rehab or treatment inside of 6 months on any city police force.
Wentworth was playing a cop in an extreme case, on an extreme day. Remember his wanting to avoid victim contact. Plenty of cops are like that. They tend to not get their detective's shield though, and stay in a uniform, doing patrol duty.
