“Shades of Blue” star Dayo Okeniyi says that his character, Det. Michael Loman, is grappling with a lot very quickly on the new NBC cop drama. “He’s in his feels a lot lately,” Okeniyi told TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell during a new installment of “Drinking With the Stars.” His character got into the thick of things right away when he accidentally killed a drug dealer and Det. Santos (Jennifer Lopez) helped him cover it up. Okeniyi says the pacing of the show will not let up as the season continues. “We shot 13 episodes and each episode is almost true to a.
- 2/5/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
One episode was provided prior to broadcast.
I am pro-Jennifer Lopez, despite what the next couple hundred words may make you think. I think she’s a good, occasionally great actress who gets saddled with subpar material so commonly that it seems comical. She can rise to the occasion and make otherwise pedestrian movies pop (Enough, Maid in Manhattan, and yeah, I’ll admit it, The Boy Next Door), but such a task is far beyond the hands of a mere mortal in regards to NBC’s new back-alley crime drama Shades of Blue. Even a mortal from the block.
This time Lopez plays a feisty NYPD detective, Harlee Santos, a cog in a very dirty branch of the city’s police department, headed up by lieutenant Bill Wozniak (Ray Liotta). They’re dirty, but the good kind of dirty – planting evidence and taking bribes all in the name...
I am pro-Jennifer Lopez, despite what the next couple hundred words may make you think. I think she’s a good, occasionally great actress who gets saddled with subpar material so commonly that it seems comical. She can rise to the occasion and make otherwise pedestrian movies pop (Enough, Maid in Manhattan, and yeah, I’ll admit it, The Boy Next Door), but such a task is far beyond the hands of a mere mortal in regards to NBC’s new back-alley crime drama Shades of Blue. Even a mortal from the block.
This time Lopez plays a feisty NYPD detective, Harlee Santos, a cog in a very dirty branch of the city’s police department, headed up by lieutenant Bill Wozniak (Ray Liotta). They’re dirty, but the good kind of dirty – planting evidence and taking bribes all in the name...
- 1/5/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
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