Backstrom: Series Premiere Review – IGN
IGN: It's a damn shame Rainn Wilson chose Backstrom as his followup to The Office, because it is just plain terrible. On paper, a cop show starring the former Dwight Schrute sounds like a fun idea, but FOX's latest crime procedural is anything but. Granted, the show is pitched as more of a drama, but even so Wilson attempts to bring his dark humor to it, à la James Gunn's Super. Unfortunately, the writing is so cliche, so corny and so offensive that even the show's brief moments of levity fall flat on their face.
