In the series, written by Sud and based on the 2013 Russian action movie The Major (Майор), tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City, where a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop. Sud executive produces with O’Connor, Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown and Alex Reznik.
Lyons will play Mike Diangelo, an Alpha male lifer on the Jersey City police force who is the de facto leader of his small Narcotics squad. Knapp will play a cop new to the team, and eager to please his squad leader/father figure Diangelo.