Dallas Strip Clubs: Review: ‘The Good Guys’
… The Good Guys” comes from Matt Nix, who with “Burn Notice” has created a show that blends the best of ’80s TV tropes (wisecracks, explosions and good old-fashioned car chases) with more contemporary visuals and storytelling. With “The Good Guys,” Nix makes the combo more overt, casting Whitford as Dan Stark, a Dallas cop who still tries to do the job like he did in 1985 – back when men were men and had the mustaches to prove it – and Colin Hanks as his frustrated partner Jack Bailey, who’s always trying to drag Stark into the 21st century.
Stark doesn’t believe in DNA, and when Bailey suggests looking up some information on a computer, Stark snorts, “Computers. I can’t get used to them. Aren’t you worried they’re going to turn on you?”
Because of his caveman, shoot-first-and-ask-questions-much-much-later approach, Stark has been banished to working the most minor of cases – in the pilot, he and Bailey (stuck as Stark’s partner after correcting a superior’s grammar) try to track down a stolen humidifier – yet they somehow always turn into grander affairs involving shoot-outs, strip clubs and, of course, the rubber hitting the road.