The Christopher Meloni Crime Comedy Hidden Gem You Can Watch On Netflix

Thanks to his work on roughly 75 seasons of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and his spinoff series, "Law & Order: Organized Crime," Christopher Meloni has become America's favorite non-superpowered crime fighter. The guy just brings a focused intensity that makes you think "wow, I could totally see this dude crushing a man's head into pulp with a fire extinguisher and then pantomiming some heinously explicit stuff on top of the corpse."

And now, with a Netflix subscription, you can. "Happy," the bizarre Syfy series based on the Grant Morrison comics of the same name, is very much available to watch on the streaming service, complete with evocative deli-meat-slicer-based threats of physical harm and — and we probably should have ripped this Band-Aid off earlier — a flying blue horse with a magical horn, voiced by Patton Oswalt. Let's dig in.

The story of "Happy" revolves around Meloni's Nick Sax, a hard-living ex-detective taking any dirty job that comes his way. After some particularly nasty business involving an organized crime family, Sax suffers a heart attack. The line between correlation and causation is tough to nail down, but around the same time, he makes the acquaintance of a flying cartoon unicorn named Happy, the imaginary friend of a little girl who has been kidnapped and needs Nick's help. It's a perfect contrasted pairing: One likes songs and sparkles, the other likes gunning down bad guys with an uzi and jamming whatever's hypodermic and on hand into his circulatory system. Real Felix and Oscar energy.