More arresting is Dorigan’s relationship with his fiancee, Elizabeth (Poppy Montgomery), a medical resident. And just how is she able to walk right into the police locker room Tuesday and join Marinelli in the shower for some serious smooching? Who can possibly care about that or much anything else they jabber about in their patrol car between crimes? Or tolerate for long Marinelli’s criminally deranged girlfriend, Beatrice (Heather Burns), whom he pretty much tolerates through the first four episodes even though her behavior marks her as a danger to him and the rest of society. “The Beat” protagonists, young officers Zane Marinelli (Mark Ruffalo) and Mike Dorigan (Derek Cecil), are up to theirs in banter, a steady Muzak of chatter leading to arguments over such trivia as word definitions or whether that little thing over an “i” is a dot or “twiddle.” Although comedy begins with writing, Perkins doesn’t need much of a line to be funny, whether spinning sarcasm or lamenting being “up to my ears in hookers.” Yet the comedy here is anything but “The Sopranos” lite or neo-”Barney Miller,” much of its success resulting from Perkins’ easy, unmannered way with her likably nasty character. Even in a sendup, that well of gratuitous stereotypes should be plugged. “Battery Park” can be faulted for attaching the usual Italian names to mobsters. Carl Zernial (Paulson) encounters his former high school English teacher, now a madam, as she and her hookers are booked. That episode features another weirdly funny match when Det. Hardin’s soaring libido Thursday has him ogling the daughter of a Mafia chief, a relationship that proceeds even more amusingly in the second episode when he comes under the leering eye of an unfriendly internal affairs officer. Ben Hardin (Justin Louis) as heading an ensemble of marginal detectives (ably played by Jacqueline Obradors, Bokeem Woodbine, Frank Grillo, Robert Mailhouse and Jay Paulson).
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