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The Good Cop (American TV series)

American television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Good Cop is an American murder-mystery comedy-drama television series created by Andy Breckman, based on an Israeli show of the same name created by Erez and Tomer Aviram. The ten-episode series premiered on Netflix on September 21, 2018. The series was canceled after one season.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Good Cop (American TV series)” is american television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Good, American and series, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Good, American and series is the immediate research focus.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Good Cop (American TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.