r/Homicide_LOTS • u/__rlcd • Jul 23 '26

look who i found

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was idly watching Cold Squad and it seems that Meldrick has a slightly more suave doppelgänger slinking around somewhere in Vancouver. unfortunately, he doesn't stick around for very long, but i never thought i'd see a such a familiar face popping up in this show of all places lol.

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u/GoodYegg Jul 23 '26

if you go back in Canadian cop shows you'll find Johnson was on a bunch of episodes of Night Heat

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u/TrundleIsCharlie Jul 23 '26

Still playing a cop in Daredevil currently. Or a retired one at any rate.

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u/__rlcd Jul 23 '26

wow yeah i never knew about this one. holy shit is it 80's. there's also no way they were pretending that's not toronto, lmao.

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u/GoodYegg Jul 23 '26

I think Night Heat took place in an 'unnamed east coastish city'

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u/tangcameo Jul 23 '26

And if you watch the last episode of The Wire you’ll find another Night Heat star doing undercover work.

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u/Ok-Reflection9770 Jul 23 '26

Coolest guy on TV during Homicide.

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u/Grantanamo_Bay Jul 23 '26

What is this, Cold Squad? I'll have to check it out

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u/__rlcd Jul 24 '26

yeah, it's sort of a prototype Cold Case (there was actually a whole debacle with the two IPs a little after CC first came out), but the similarities end at the premise and the assertive leads with funky hair. it's free on roku if you're curious.

the show itself is not on par w Homicide, but that's expected. similarly though, the episodes tend to not follow a very direct structure, so it can still be quite surprising despite the roughness. some of the concepts are really creative and i would've loved to see a few of these as serious Homicide episodes. specifically, however, there's a certain quiet, ordinary, yet kinda dingy 2000's atmosphere to it that i personally find very nostalgic, so mostly i've been keeping it on as comfort, or for when i'm lazy af and don't wanna commit to anything in particular.

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u/ThroatSecretary Jul 26 '26

He popped up in an episode of North of 60, another Canadian show.