Coyote is an American crime drama television series created by David Graziano, Michael Carnes, and Josh Gilbert. The series stars Michael Chiklis and premiered on CBS All Access on Thursday, January 7, 2021, with a set of six episodes.

What is “Coyote” about?

Coyote is a strange hybrid: a late-middle-aged virility fantasy (à la Taken), as well as an “empathy machine” that attempts to humanize everyone caught up in the cartel system, especially the lower-level grunts. A generous interpretation of the show’s pseudo-ambitions might be that an entry-point character like Ben makes more visceral the dangers of the drug wars for its willing participants, its helpless victims and everyone in between.

“There’s two kinds of people in the world,” proclaims grizzled Border Patrol agent Ben Clemens (Michael Chiklis) to his rookie partner (George Pullar) in the new CBS All Access thriller Coyote. “Those who choose to break the law, and those that don’t.” Too much of a stickler even for his fellow officers, Ben is practically ushered out of the office at his own retirement party, even though he’s just discovered an underground tunnel and single-handedly rescued a woman from probable sex trafficking. Divorced from his wife (Kelli Williams) and distant from his adult daughter (Amy Forsyth), Ben isn’t particularly looking forward to his golden years — and he certainly isn’t prepared to confront the moral nuances he’d spent his three decades in law enforcement choosing to ignore.

You can stream “Coyote” on CBS All Access(free trial) and on Netflix.