Terriers (TV series)

Premise

Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department.

Cast

Main

• Donal Logue as Henry "Hank" Dolworth
• Michael Raymond-James as Britt Pollack
• Laura Allen as Katie Nichols, Britt's girlfriend
• Kimberly Quinn as Gretchen Dolworth, Hank's ex-wife
• Jamie Denbo as Maggie Lefferts, Hank's attorney and part-time employer
• Rockmond Dunbar as Detective Mark Gustafson, Hank's friend and former partner

Recurring

• Loren Dean as Jason Adler, Gretchen's fiancé
• Karina Logue as Stephanie "Steph" Dolworth, Hank's sister (Karina and Donal Logue are real-life siblings as well)
• Alison Elliott as Laura Ross, a muckraking blogger
• Michael Gaston as Ben Zeitlin, local attorney
• Maximiliano Hernández as Ray, Britt's former criminal associate
• Daren Scott as Burke (the "man in the tan suit"), Zeitlin's "muscle"
• Alex Fernie as Swift, one of the "Squatters"
• Alex Berg as Blodgett, one of the "Squatters"
• Todd Fasen as Gunt, one of the "Squatters"
• Johnny Sneed as Professor Elliot Owen, Katie's college teacher
• Rachel Miner as Eleanor Gosney, daughter of Hank's old drinking buddy
• Craig Susser as Detective Ronnie Reynolds, Mark's current partner on the force
• Stephen Frejek as Officer Robledo, a fellow cop
• Zack Silva as Gavin, Katie's college friend
• Christopher Cousins as Robert Lindus, local land developer

Reception

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 93% with an average rating of 6.7 out of 10, based on 27 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and quite funny, Terriers breathes quirky new life into the detective show." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 75 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Time James Poniewozik ranked Terriers at #10 on his top 10 list of television shows in 2010. The Daily Beast Jace Lacob selected the show as part of his top 10 shows of 2010. HitFixs Alan Sepinwall ranked Terriers at #3 on his top 10 list for 2010 as well as #1 on his list of best new shows of 2010. The A.V. Club ranked it as #7 on their list of best shows of 2010. IGN's Matt Fowler gave the entire season a "10" and called it a "massively gratifying TV experience like no other." IGN also gave Terriers their award for "Best New Series of 2010". The series received a nomination for Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association.

In 2023, Shawn Ryan give his opinion about Terriers legacy:I think Terriers was ahead of its time. That would have been a fun show to make for Netflix or Amazon or Apple and let people discover it on their own time. I blame myself for not pushing better for a better title. And I think FX would admit that they never got the marketing right on that show. I think that show happened at the wrong time, at the wrong place.

Episodes

References

References

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