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Article: Precinct politics: getting at police underbelly remains show's legacy.(NYPD Blue Farewell)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Any good discussion of "NYPD Blue" starts with those early scenes that led to Dennis Franz's Andy Sipowicz getting shot. A lot of viewers sitting there in 1993 were thinking that this guy's got to die.
It was hard to figure "Blue"--with all that talk of broken taboos--to be anything more than flash. How could a series with any brains or grace have a character who's that big of a jerk at its center?
Saying that now sounds positively quaint. It turned out Sipowicz and a pack of other immensely complicated, sometimes unlikable characters would power this show, and it would blow us away.
Twelve seasons later, now that Sipowicz is more like trusted ...