Remembering Fastlane

This show was the tits. Unfortunately, it was an expensive production and being on goddamn FOX, was cancelled after just one season. One fucking awesome season.

It's better than this may suggest.

The first episode starts with Van and Deaq meeting and not getting along. It's basically a sexed-up version of Lethal Weapon except they were both crims as kids so the cops recruit into this here secret task force. Or something like that. It's been a while. Anyhow, throw in Kelly from Saved By The Bell and we have a team. Yay. There's a girl, a crime and explosions. Three things which make action great. Which this is, so we don't ever have to take it seriously which is just as well, because Tommy-fucking-Lee guest stars in an episode which is surely one of the worst things to ever happen ever.

Sorry Hiroshima.

Crappy muso's as actors aside, it really spared no expense when it came to the guest stars, flash cars and no ugly people. It's set in LA where all the ugly people live together in a cave or something don't they? Although Iggy Pop was in it so, he must have escaped for the day.

The images of car chases, gun fights, girls in bikini's, the ocean, drug dealers, playboy's, cops and the coolest police station thing you've ever seen sum up this show to a tee and when Jay Mohr's prick-of-a-boss character appear's makes for some of the better episodes. As do the ep's focusing on Deaq's growing up in gangs and having to go back undercover in them, Van's revelation that his dad is a world class counterfeiter and needing him to help them, Billie (Kelly from Saved By The Bell) is revealed to have been addicted to heroin from being undercover, way before Jack Bauer, and turning in the last episode having presumably being told they were cancelled, complete with the fuck words and such. Later censored.

This wasn't.

Undercover lesbians aside, this absolute fucking classic was co-created by that McG. You know, the one who ruined the Terminator series? And starred that guy who years later would go gay-for-pay in the mega successful homosexual erotica series, The Twilight Saga. I don't know what the rest of them are doing these days but it's not being awesome in this show.

No ugbots allowed.