XABF's favorite series was
Jesse Stone. He identified with the main character.
Of course he did, this guy was divorced (with the ex-wife still calling him), with an alcohol problem (except he pours it into a glass with ice; XABF drinks it straight from the bottle), brilliant at his job (small town cop here), but the management (government, in this case) was against him and constantly trying to fire him.
Half of it is XABF exactly, and the other half feeds into his own opinions of himself and his sense of paranoia.