I hear those scenes take all morning into afternoon
Six guys I grew up with were on the NYPD. None of them cared about any case 1/10 as much as depicted on this show.
One or two of my extended family don't like the weekly dinner scene. I think it adds spice...no pun intended.
Even their one or two anti-Catholic TV caricature type shows treated the Catholic Church with respect, not only in attitudes of the actors, but in script conclusions.
The show does, indeed, employ some fantasy, but what cop show doesn't? It took a good part of the first season for the actors to get comfortable in their roles. An interesting test will be what they do when any of the actors move on to bigger and better things. For today it provides a escape that I like to anticipate.