I loved NYPD Blue from day one, the stand alone episodes and the major story arcs were always incredible. This episode began on such a whimsical note, it didn't foreshadow the darkness and the spectrum of emotions to come. Andy's character development and growth from a drunk spiraling into the abyss to a father figure and mentor, virtually the glue that kept everyone and everything together is a life lesson of second chances and redemption.
The Best thing about NYPD Blue is the number of great cop actors they used that starred in the Best and grittiest Cop Show Ever....Hill Street Blues! I was in the Atl Police Academy when Hill Street Blues was on....Never missed an episode!
That Julian was fantastic, he appeared in several episodes. His breaking down and crying at the end over losing the woman he loved, despite being a stripper, was so real and touching... Well it made me 😭 too... And for me was the best scene in an otherwise fantastic episode.
Goosebumps, when Andy says "where does your dad keep his cleaning kit?" Great writing. As a matter of fact one the best things about this show is how developed all the characters are within such small sample sizes of dialogue.
@@robertslater5706 To set it up that he died cleaning his gun instead of suicide so the family can receive benefits and pension from the NYPD. Probably also to protect John from the stigma if officially ruled suicide.
Its a show that's definitely in the discsussion for being one of the best shows of all time, but that's a subjective term. To you its the best show of all time but the people on Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Shield, The Sopranos etc are saying the same thing about their shows. Just to be in the discussion of best show of all time should be sufficient enoguh.
In addition to great writing for the main characters, the secondary actors were always terrific. I always loved Julian. When Clark told Julian " just do as we say" was hilaarious !!
@@originalganjaman606 ....and the guy who's wife wanted him dead and thought Andy was the hit man !!! Don't know his name but he was in AA with Chris in the Sopranos
Great show hill street blues started it both great shows characters amazing plots keep you enthralled ...Bobbys death wonderfully done sobbed like a baby xxx
@@Sh9168 Yes 10pm they allowed something like this but as I said in other era's this would not fly the public would have spoken out against seeing nudity like this.
This is a good episode from late in the show's run. Look at all that talent behind the scenes. Mark Tinker directed this episode. He started on The White Shadow then went on to St. Elsewhere and ended up on NYPD Blue. Bob Doherty who produced this went on to create Elementary. Nicholas Wootton, who wrote this episode, created Scorpion along with Matt Olmstead who also produced this. A lot of very talented people, still very hot today, all worked on this show. And this is the 10th season! Think about who worked on the earlier episodes.
In January 2008, the FCC announced that they would seek a $1.4 million fine against ABC for the opening sequence of this episode, in which Theo Sipowicz walks in on a nude Connie in the bathroom preparing to take a shower. The scene featured full rear nudity and partial frontal nudity on the part of actress Charlotte Ross. The complaint alleged that the nude shot of Ross was held onscreen longer than it should have been, and that Ross' character didn't react fast enough to cover herself. The fine was the largest against a network in recent history. ABC said they would appeal the fine on the grounds that it came over five years after the episode was originally broadcast. If they failed, each of 52 affiliates would pay $27,500 for broadcasting the episode. On January 4, 2011, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the fine, citing FCC rules as 'unconstitutionally vague and chilling'. [ABC, Inc., et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, No. 08-0841-ag(L) (2nd Cir.)]
I enjoyed watching NYPD Blue when I lived in East New York in Brooklyn since I was in in my 20s. I liked all tv cops series in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Feel like I remember seeing this episode back when I was a kid in the 90's or early 2000's... not sure when this came out and it being Season 10. It feels like I am a kid again with ambition, dreams, and hope of being great, all that beat out of me to Adulthood. All that past was me being stupid to what the world was really like..... feels good to have that feeling again but still know my reality sucks.... LOL
At about 14:35 the real hitman comes in and Andy and John interrogate him...I instantly knew I had seen him somewhere before but couldn't place him. I watched the episode all the way to the end, and just as it ended, it hit me. J.E. Freeman as Dr. Wren in Alien Resurrection. "I think you're gonna find this was very ill-advised."
The early days had great characters that were unique, looked and talked like NY Cops. By the time the show ended, the precinct looked like Andy plus a bunch of Ford models.
Julian, "eating right, exercising, getting shot at". " hello. I got shot here". . great character and amazing actor! Typical city guy! Sounds like the guys I hung out with in high school in Boston..they just dropped their RRRRS
What happened to TV?? They used to be able to write compelling, touching, HUMAN stories, that followed a logical progression to a satisfying conclusion. This show gave us as much of the real as TV ever could: no supermodels pretending to be actors, no socially idealised messaging, sure it wasn't perfect but nothing is and this show came as close as any. I'm just an old man ranting against the tide now...
CHARLOTTE ROSE 🌹 wasn’t afraid to show it , and rightfully so MONEY SHOT give it a 10 . Great actress, Great show I drop him off at hooters she’s almost bursted out laughing . She was almost Kelly bundy came down her and 🍎applegate rest history
