When Morena Baccarin guest-starred on “Fire Country,” there were hints that her storyline could be turned into a series.

“Having to create this character very last minute, without any police training in a show that was about firefighters” was daunting, she says. “It wasn’t until we got here and started training that I really realized what I was doing and how I was getting my bearings, so it was a little bit of a flyby.”

The appearance clicked, producers ordered “Sheriff Country,” and the law aspect of Edgewater, California, came into focus.

“It was a lot of pressure,” Baccarin says.

Now, she’s deep into the new series, a procedural that has plenty of ties to the original series. In Edgewater, she’s overseeing a town that has more crime than you thought possible and a family that could

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