I also like the fact that it uses real people as characters. If set in the USA then lead cop Mike Sheppard would be a glossy, smooth, handsome. tall chappie wearing thousand dollar suits, constantly fighting of the attentions of gorgeous Hollywood beauties. In Kiwi-land, Sheppard is a comfortably-shaped, ageing, not very well dressed bloke with an odd taste in cars and music (C&W). Sure, he fights off female attentions, but from the completely bonkers Russian pathologist who is a tad too large, in shape and character, to be Hollywood “babe” material.