TV Review

Behind the Badge

EW's GRADE
C

Details Network: TLC

You can practically hear the pages turning in Dennis Franz's wooden narration of these tales of law-enforcement derring-do. As for Behind the Badge's titular promise, there's no Sipowicz-esque soul-baring to be heard among the profiled flatfoots. Instead, we get a trite grab bag of recollections married to video vignettes extolling technology's indispensable role in catching the bad guys. Yeah, and...? C

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Originally posted Mar 26, 1999 Published in issue #478 Mar 26, 1999 Order article reprints

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