Shades of Blue certainly isn't shy about hauling out some of the tropiest
tropes about cops who find themselves wearing a wire.
Not exact matches
The conventional crime - time format incinerates everything strange and spirited
about the concept, and Lucifer's
cop partner (Lauren German)-- the female wet blanket to his male rogue — is a
trope that needs to go to hell.
However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy
cop film to make these
tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront
about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»