POLICE PROCEDURALS - which are ur faves

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

A couple more moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=higSFufaUrA

terrible name.

Chicago PD has just started here. it suffers from all the male leads looking roughly the same so i can't remember who is who. they also did the 'kill the attractive one in the first episode' thing which is becoming a cliche.

er koogs - do u see what they r doing there, with the name?

STOKED for ep 3 btw but WHY DO THEY TAKE SO LONG TO MAKE NEW ONES?? this should be on every week. but possibly tone down the lewdness? i prefer my airplane-style comedies PG, PG-13 at most

new season of the killing on netflix is pretty good

i do. hadn't realised it was a comedy though, which makes more sense. never seen it.

Created by Charlie Brooker

ah... that probably explains the delays also 8)

I hope you didn't watch the videos and then still not realize it was a comedy :)

In terms of turning down the lewdness, this is not your show - they screened it at the BFI last week and it contains some filthy jokes (which I initially started to try to paraphrase but don't want to mess up) and probably the single goriest scene (a procedural autopsy sequence) I have ever seen in my life, counting slasher movies and everything else. But it's brilliant. The funniest of the three of them.

oh, Sky 1, no wonder i hadn't heard of it. space tv...

It's where the good comedy's gone, tbh

Only just watching Wallander.

[SPOILER ALERT]

Really wasn't expecting the (fictional) thing that happened at the end of the second DVD collection.

Mixed in with the (real life) thing that happened after that, it's making the third DVD collection curious watching as neither the fictional thing or the real life thing (and its impact) have been acknowledged so far.

Are "Nordic Noir" series/films The Hunters and Sebastian Bergman any good?

i have not watched those, but i like "Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter."

> Mixed in with the (real life) thing that happened after that,

> Sebastian Bergman

weirdly, SB's background story involves the (real life) thing...

these days whenever i want to watch something procedural i end up watching 'foyle's war'

I'm still into Inspector Lewis, he's really grown on me

might have to try 'inspector lewis' out.

foyle's such a chill dude imo. love honeysuckle weeks.

inspector lewis is a bit of a grumblebum at first but I find him v endearing now

vg, glad you came around on inspector lewis. foyle's war is tops.

my mom loves foyle's war so i've never watched it :\

foyle's war sounds generic but benefits from the cast quite a lot. michael kitchen is great in the lead role.

Stockhausen just referenced in an episode of Wallander (Series 3). Highlight of my day.

omar otm

last season is interesting cos it covers a period of the very-near postwar that americans aren't v familiar with