What is Backstrom about?

Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior. Based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books of the same name.

Latest episode

S1 · Episode 13 — Rock Bottom · 2015-04-30

When a Native American is found dead under a bridge on the Wabacooche Indian reservation, Amy’s new boyfriend and Indian Reserve Police Captain, Jesse Rocha, wants in on the case. Backstrom then learns that Indian meth-king Norwest, of Cooch County, is a suspect in the case, and he is convinced his father, Cooch County Sheriff Blue Backstrom, knows about Norwest’s drug dealings, leaving Backstrom to make a difficult decision. Meanwhile, in order to keep his job with the S.C.U., Backstrom must impress Dr. Deb.

Genres: Crime, Drama
First aired: 2015-01-22
Rating: ★ 6.8 / 10

Top cast

Rainn Wilson Det. Lt. Backstrom
Beatrice Rosen Nadia Paquet
Dennis Haysbert Det. Sgt. Almond
Genevieve Angelson Det. Gravely
Kristoffer Polaha Sgt. Niedermayer
Page Kennedy Officer Moto

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