POLICE PROCEDURALS - which are ur faves

AGREE

Enjoying line of duty, just finished on bbc

It was pretty silly at times but Keeley Hawes was awesome.

everybody's talkin about how good line of duty is, i'm down

yeah I need to check this out

As a procedural goes, the bit in episode 5 where Fleming and Arnott interview Dryden is all-time A+. Hawes was pretty awesome in it, and I usually don't rate her at all.

Highly recommended for fans of the genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15IRXKn9LSU

^ ha, yes.

just reading james lee burke right now, it's really really good

my gf is a law and order: SVU addict. help me.

Just watched S2E1 of line of duty - so good

There are at least two genuine HOLY SHIT moments, and already I'm basically trusting no one

line of duty is sick, so down

though at times i find it harder to understand than glaswegian

the police in uk procedurals always seem like such a mess

but their lady cops

http://www.rootfilms.co.uk/uimages/BLOG/VICKY.jpg

and their haircuts…

otm

augh but they RUIN IT in the second series

do they actually say 'answering only yes or no' like that in uk prisons, a quick google makes it look like 'line of duty' is the only place that comes from, but it's so diabolically realistic i could have sworn it was real

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/arts/television/steven-bochco-and-others-on-creating-hill-street-blues.html?hpw&rref=television&_r=0

i would watch the shit out of a cable network that only showed 'racial tensions between homicide investigators and neighborhood residents' episodes of all the police procedurals

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-murder-in-the-first--trailer-premiere--silicon-valley-meets-slayings-in-new-steven-bochco-tnt-series-183208663.html

looks very hollywood but maybe that's just trailervision

Happy Valley was really excellent, if a bit hard to watch occasionally.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/arts/television/murder-in-the-first-a-new-drama-on-tnt.html?_r=0

alessandra stanley likes it ok, course every time she winds up to make a judgment i feel a little dumber, so fwiw

anybody seen these latest Wallanders? they're sitting on the DVR but i've had so much other fantastic stuff to watch i haven't gotten around to them yet

ooh there's more wallanders??

new wallanders are... odd. there's a massive elephant in the room and it's hard not to sit there scratching your head over it. like when becky on roseanne was suddenly this whole other person, only worse.

oh, they're just taking over production from the swedish version? that's less… a thing. but i do love cast-switches.

it's series 3 of the swedish tv version with Krister Henriksson in the lead role only (a different) Linda's back having been missing (dead?) for all of series 2.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rwm3r/episodes/player

it's easy enough to enjoy them for what they are (and he is my favourite wallander of the 3) but, y'know, continuity

Definitely The Shield.

The new Wallanders are fine. The least engaging of the series so far but still solid.

New Linda is ok. I know that when Sällström died there was a lot of discussion over whether Linda should be permanently written out of the books, not just the TV series, but it hasn't been managed terribly.

Started watching Whitechapel on a lark -- it's a bit corny but I kinda like it. 3rd season is a bit of a stretch, 2nd season was almost terrible but Peter Serafinowicz! Phil Davis is good, god he's such an odd looking feller - could have sworn he was in Prime Suspect but IMDB tells me no.

Anyway so I'm back on a british crime show tear

Inspector Lewis is streaming, but Inspector Morse is not. Can I/should I watch Lewis without having seen Morse? they also have Endeavor streaming. idk idk

No matter really...eyeing off Foyle's war as my next one anyway.

and yes yess I know The Fall and Spiral are grebt but they're not streaming yet so imma bide my time unless I lose patience and get mr veg to t0rrentz them for me

I adore Lewis and haven't seen much of Morse, so I'm not sure it matters.

Foyle's War is the best.

:D

i liked lewis a lot, and endeavour even more. haven't watched but a couple of morse and it's been years since.

ooh this is good news

i also liked vera. i'm a sucker for the dippy detective shows.

I tried a couple of eps of Lewis, it's good but it didn't really grab me?

Endeavour though -- YES. Have really enjoyed the first couple so far.

i seem to recall it taking a few episodes to get into the characters in lewis.

i've watched a few episodes of foyle's war based on the recommendation above; i like it very much!

i also started The Fall - this one is def my wheelhouse

The Fall is so good - Anderson is great in it.

i love her so much

I like Endeavour a lot even though it can be a bit "it's the 60s DO YOU SEE" at times.

Gave up on The Fall pretty quickly as I couldn't hack yet another TORTURED SEX KILLER mystery

i am sadly/creepily interested in such things, BTK tie-in etc

Murder In The First was kinda good at first, but slowed way down for courtroom scenes lately; think it's almost over? Liked the first three seasons of Justified, haven't seen it since.

they're making american version of broadchurch...

wanna see Top Of The Lake.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/arts/television/murder-in-the-first-a-new-drama-on-tnt.html?_r=0

alessandra stanley likes it ok, course every time she winds up to make a judgment i feel a little dumber, so fwiw

― j., Monday, June 9, 2014 8:34 AM (1 month ago)

this is kind of boring so far (about 4-5 eps in), the dialogue is flat and the characters are stock (STARTUP MESSIAH BURNING MAN OPEN ACCESS TECH BRO). kathleen robertson's shoulders are amazing and she has lots of good tuck-hair-behind-ears moments, taye diggs is kind of muted but potentially maybe interesting with his dead wife thing and kind of a frumpy buttoned-up dad style, but on the whole casting kind of feels too basic-cabley, like too many people who got work because they've been reliable character actors rather than because something about them popped for this project. which makes sense because the characters all kind of feel like they're vague copies of other cop show characters or media-world figures generally rather than having any basis in reality. raphael sbarge's weirdness will probably go unused. they do have out, sexually bantering squadroom dykes though, to make things contemporary and add a note of san francisco realism i guess. richard schiff is ok so far, seems like paycheck work he doesn't really need to dig deep for.

i would pay to read you review things. that was spectacular! (but still not sure to watch the show or no)

too bad you're not sitting on any grant committees that could fund the tv essay i've been writing

from ep 5 and 6 on it gets more interesting, as the trial starts up and it's more along the lines of bochco's old 'murder one'. more twists and knots, consequences play out of having started prosecution so early in the sequence of episodes without a solid case.

there were other actors in that of course but i think daniel benzali (bald lawyer dude, also played sipowicz's defense lawyer nemesis on nypd blue) was kind of enabled to really chew some scenery in it, there's no one in this one with that much of a show-stealing focus. (robert polito is the judge! so probably will be boring.)

paula marshall is in this too, as steven weber (a pilot, o rly)'s wronged wife, kind of a crummy part so far, so i would expect her to get some more play once the investigation lands on her head for a while.

This Saturday at 9pm on Sky 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoYIeOrfDgU