New ABC Dramedy: The Unusuals

ABC will premiere the new cop dramedy The Unusuals tonight at 10:02pm ET, immediately after Lost, and I’m really looking forward to it.

Set and filmed in New York, the crime series with secrets follows a group of NYPD detectives who are unusual cops following unusual cases with unusual twists. What’s not to like?

The show stars Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Joan of Arcadia’s Amber Tamblyn, an actress who has repeatedly demonstrated a clear knack for portraying wry and independent women like Detective Casey Shraeger. A new recruit to the Homicide division from Vice and saddled with an unfortunate first case investigating the death of her new partner’s former partner, Shraeger quickly learns that her latest group of colleagues are just as unpredictable as her current assignment.

Jeremy Renner (28 Weeks Later) plays Schraeger’s Homicide partner Detective Jason Walsh, and the rest of the principal cast includes Harold Perrineau (Lost) as paranoid Detective Leo Banks, who insists on wearing a bulletproof vest at all times; Adam Goldberg (Entourage) as Banks’ suicidal partner Detective Eric Delahoy, who wants to bite the dust on the job; Monique Gabriela Curnen (The Dark Knight) as tough-chick Detective Allison Beaumont; Josh Close (The Day the Earth Stood Still) as Beaumont’s ultra religious partner Detective Henry Cole, who’s hiding something; Kai Lennox (40 Days and 40 Nights) as attention-hungry Detective Eddie Alvarez, a dishonest media whore; and Terry Kinney (Oz) as Sergeant Harvey Brown, the boss attempting to root out corruption in his precinct.

Continue below for a couple of sneak peeks at the series, as well as an extended trailer and a video overview that reveals everything you need to know about the show before tuning in to the premiere. Actually, all I needed to know beforehand was the excellent cast lineup and the fact that The Unusuals was created by Bones producer and writer Noah Hawley, but a few clips never hurt.

That’s Lennox’s Detective Alvarez providing the intel about his coworkers in the first preview and Perrineau’s Detective Banks and Goldberg’s Detective Delahoy in action in the second. I definitely like.