About this episode

The episode reviews the buddy cop action comedy 'The Nice Guys' directed by Shane Black, exploring its plot and character dynamics.

Ten years ago, legendary writer/director Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3) put out his latest original vision of yet another buddy cop action comedy, this time taking place in 1970's Los Angeles. The pairing was inspired: a drunken private detective (Ryan Gosling) teams up with a tough guy enforcer (Russell Crowe) to solve both a missing person mystery and an unsolved murder. And the plot just gets increasingly convoluted from there i...

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