Shades of Blue (Seasons 1–3)

Shades of Blue (2016) is an NBC crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Jennifer Lopez as Harlee Santos — a single mother and New York detective who has been taking dirty money long enough that it no longer feels like a choice. When the FBI traps her into working as an informant against her own unit, she has to hold two lives together without letting either one know the other exists.

Ray Liotta plays her commanding officer Wozniak, a man who built the crew and runs it with genuine loyalty — which is exactly what makes betraying him so costly. Drea de Matteo and the rest of the precinct fill out a world where the line between protection and extortion dissolved years ago. The FBI handler pushing Harlee toward the wire is not a clean hero either.

Three seasons, consistently built around Lopez's performance, which is more controlled and lived-in than the premise might suggest. The show works best as a portrait of someone trying to be a decent mother inside an indecent system. Stream all seasons of Shades of Blue on iFILM.