Rainn Wilson Talks Backstrom, Returning to TV, and More — collider.com

From creator/executive producer Hart Hanson (Bones), Backstrom is a subversive and comic crime procedural about an unhealthy, offensive and irascible, although brilliant, detective who sees the worst in everyone, and is usually right.  Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) is a man with no filter, who has returned from disgrace to lead Portland’s newly minted Special Crimes Unit, which is tasked with navigating the city’s most sensitive and serious cases.  The show also stars Dennis Haysbert, Kristoffer Polaha, Genevieve Angelson, Page Kennedy, Beatrice Rosen and Thomas Dekker.

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