Lopez returns to cop drama
Jennifer Lopez is feeling Blue. But that’s a good thing. The singeractress debuts the second season of her NBC/Global police drama Shades of Blue Sunday night and, she says, the return is explosive.
“It starts off with a bang,” she recently told Extra. “It ended with a bang and it starts off with a slow, crazy bang.”
The season première resumes moments after Lopez’s character, dirty cop and single mom Harlee Santos, kills the abusive father of her child in self-defence.
Titled Unforgiven, the episode sees Harlee go to extreme measures to cover up her ex’s death. So extreme, in fact, that one scene with the corpse had Lopez’s stomach twisting and turning almost as much as she did as a Fly Girl on In Living Color back in the day.
“I felt sick when I first read that burial scene,” she told TV Insider. “All I could think was, ‘I can’t do this! How can I possibly go there?’ But that’s the difference between Harlee and me. My life is crazy. Her life’s insane. And she will do what it takes to make it through another day.”
ONCE UPON A TIME
Season 6 of the fairy-tale drama waves its magic wand tonight, with the episode Tougher Than the Rest. Snow is still asleep in Storybrooke, and David and Hook are racing to stop Gideon before he confronts Emma. Plus, Regina realizes that everyone — maybe even Robin — is better off in the alternate world where the Evil Queen was defeated.
Executive producers Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis recently told Entertainment Tonight that the B.C.-filmed series will air a musical episode this season.
“We actually started (planning) this around September,” Kitsis said. “There are these two composers that we met, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, who are big fans of the show, and ABC put us together with them because a musical is the one thing and the one request that fans have been asking for six seasons.”
Once Upon a Time airs on ABC and CTV.