The Wire is a *damn* incredible crime show. I would say cop show, but 50% of it is devoted to the criminals and they're just as complicated and interesting. It's by the same guy who made Homicide: Life on the Streets.
Kima Greggs is one of the two lead detective characters on the show, and she's a lesbian. A lesbian in an actual relationship that we see as much of as we see of the personal lives of the other characters. She's a seriously cool character and in no way shape or form a cliche, and since she's one of the leads, she gets plenty of screentime. She isn't a shiny Buffy stereotype or a hyperbutch lesbian cliche or even a prettified NYPD Blue female cop - she just looks and dresses and acts like a reasonably good looking lesbian who could easily be a cop. It really works.
The idea of the show is that each season follows one long wiretap investigation from beginning to end, instead of skipping over all the interesting bits in order to fit a case into an hour. Even if it weren't for Kima, it would still be a rocking good show. It airs on HBO, but the first and best season is out on dvd, and has been out long enough to be available on Netflix and so on, not to mention available used for cheaper.
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Kima Greggs is one of the two lead detective characters on the show, and she's a lesbian. A lesbian in an actual relationship that we see as much of as we see of the personal lives of the other characters. She's a seriously cool character and in no way shape or form a cliche, and since she's one of the leads, she gets plenty of screentime. She isn't a shiny Buffy stereotype or a hyperbutch lesbian cliche or even a prettified NYPD Blue female cop - she just looks and dresses and acts like a reasonably good looking lesbian who could easily be a cop. It really works.
The idea of the show is that each season follows one long wiretap investigation from beginning to end, instead of skipping over all the interesting bits in order to fit a case into an hour. Even if it weren't for Kima, it would still be a rocking good show. It airs on HBO, but the first and best season is out on dvd, and has been out long enough to be available on Netflix and so on, not to mention available used for cheaper.