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T2 WHATS UP! June 17 - 23, 2018 BY K.A. TAYLOR TV Media F or an informant, with- holding and manipulat- ing the truth can be a matter of life and death. Keeping secrets and telling white lies can be hard enough for the average citizen and harder still for a mobster, but for a cop? Well, no greater chal- lenge can exist than to try to delude those trained to detect such deception. Amidst a sea of badges and blue on prime-time television, one series has managed to make huge waves, combining the drama of a mafioso series with the action of a gritty cop show. Despite an exciting run, this year marks the final season of the star-heavy series, as sea- son 3 of "Shades of Blue" pre- mieres Sunday, June 17, on NBC. "Shades of Blue" explores the lives of the Street Crimes de- tective squad of the 64th pre- cinct in New York City, focus- ing on Det. Harlee Santos (Jen- nifer Lopez, "Lila & Eve," 2015) and her supervisor, Lt. Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta, "Goodfel- las," 1990), with whom Harlee has a 15-year history and a deep, familial relationship. The crew is a tight-knit group of dirty cops who do what is necessary in order to make a crime scene or criminal work in their favor. Other members of the crew in- clude Tess Nazario (Drea de Matteo, "The Sopranos"), Mar- cus Tufo (Hampton Fluker, "Major Crimes") and Carlos Espada (Vincent Laresca, "Graceland"). After being set up in the se- ries premiere, Harlee had a dif- ficult decision to make, and it's one with which she continues to grapple. She's brought in by the FBI and confronted by Agent Robert Stahl (Warren Kole, "Stalker"), who needs her to act as an informant so that his anti-corruption task force can finally reveal the unsavory underbelly of the 64th. Given that Harlee is a single mother, down on her luck and desperate to give her daughter, Cristina (Sarah Jeffery, "Rogue"), a bet- ter future, she has little choice but to agree, realizing that com- pliance with the FBI could give her a second chance instead of Ray Liotta and Jennifer Lopez star in "Shades of Blue" Blue crime continued on page T10 TV FEATURE