POLICE PROCEDURALS - which are ur faves

It's in the same conversation where this guy has asked dot if he'd be interested in sitting the Inspector exam. & says taht it isn't pleasant to step into9 a dead man's shoes.
Thought I'd remembered it throughout the next couple of seasons but couldn't remember exactly who it was said to.

jesus christ second season of Broadchurch was awful, what a waste of 8 hours.

― akm, Friday, February 27, 2015 6:51 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't think it was that bad, to be honest.

i've definitely wasted more time on worse.

Does "Trapped" fit this thread's remit?

Midway through, it does seem very good.

Trapped was great! My favourite police this year.

I've got one more episode to go and I'd say it is up there with the Killing and the Bridge. Better than Fortitude.

gah so i'm going to have to steal this clearly

Just watched 5 episodes straight of Trapped, yeah I'm feeling this, despite certain tropes. I also enjoyed that Swedish one I forget the name of which was like a police procedural about kidnapped children but with added FOREST SPIRITS or whatever, with the same conspiracy amongst small town elders covering up something in order to sell out to BIG BUSINESS. I mean, I'm only halfway through Trapped, but c'mon...

Jordskott? Enjoyed it though it was a bit "X-Files" for me.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/londons-super-recognizer-police-force

bound to be yoinked for a procedural

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/mike-connors-mannix-dies.html?_r=0

In the series, which had its premiere in 1967, Mr. Connors played Joe Mannix, a Korean War veteran of, like Mr. Connors, Armenian descent who sleuthed his way around Los Angeles with flashy cars and a penchant for citing Armenian proverbs.

Unlike many a smooth TV private eye, Mannix took his lumps. The Washington Post, tabulating the wear and tear the character withstood over eight seasons, found that he had endured 17 gunshot wounds and 55 beatings that left him unconscious.

The violence drew criticism in some quarters, but “Mannix” became the most popular crime series on television in an era punctuated by comedies like “All in the Family” and “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.” Mr. Connors became one of the highest-paid television actors of the 1970s, and the role brought him four Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award.

So ... two more episodes until the very end of Broadchurch.

How on earth did we never have a Broadchurch thread? Have I lost all my search skills?

I'M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR YOUR NOISE THIS MORNIN

The Kojack pilot, The Marcus-Nelson Murders--a made-for-TV movie, technically, directed by Joseph Sargent, who did The Taking of Pelham One Two Three a year later--is excellent. Unfortunately, you can't buy it as a standalone.

David tennant looks horrible with facial hair

Good thread, will have to check out some of j's cancelled cop shows (I did see the one about the guy from 1600s NYC, with good but too-brief flashbacks).
A few years ago, my local antenna TV selections incl. very late-night reruns of a couple shows I barely remember from early childhood: Peter Gunn, with a badass instrumental theme song, my first musical experience. Also, going to cigarette commenricals: warm-cool prob hollow-body electric guitar notes, a scale maybe, against Modern Art patterns, with a slicked-haired gumshoe, who looked like an ex-cop, but welcome in the jazz clubs. SCTV's version had him actually up on the bandstand, spying suspects during his sax solos, which was pretty close to Jack Dragnet Webb's movie Pete Wilson's Blues, where he's a bandleader and an informer (LAPDphile Webb was also married to chanteuse Julie London, hubba-hubba).
The other Antenna TV resurrection was Naked City, which started in the late 50s as a relatively tame savvy old-cop. collegiate young cop reduction of the late 40s movie of the same title--which had more spirit and flavor, not noir but kinda Hollywood neo-realist in the funky streets of NYC, which the revamped series updated with some New Frontier exuberance and sensitive liberal melodrama---and as an anthology series, basically, with cops mainly just chasing or coming to the rescue of guest stars, who got most of the action.
Cracker and Prime Suspect are forever, but yall know those. (First series of prequel PS was good except the young Jane is pretty reserved, almost meek, in a way the young *Helen Mirren* never was, like in that movie directed by Michael Powell, her first, I think)

re ageless-detective show, there was just another one of those recently! already canceled i think. i read that the creator swore he wasn't aware of the previous one.

Marcella, series 2, the last 15 minutes, urgh.

I’m probably the only one watching Collateral on NFlix but it’s enjoyable and has my girl Carey in it

kathleen robertson's shoulders are amazing and she has lots of good tuck-hair-behind-ears moments

i totally forgot this show that i watched all of existed until i read this again

the j-lo dirty cop show with ray liotta ('man with large appetites') is decent but i dunno it was getting a bit much as the second season kicked in so i gave up on it for the time being

Collateral was ok, although I have probably muddled it up with the 3000 other things of the same ilk I've watched recently.

(Oh, the pizza guy, the refugees). Carey good, yes.

Yeah it’s purely a time sink. Only watching for Carey

i can't believe they literally had one fbi profiler explain to another on their own same team what exactly rohypnol is and its typical criminal uses in 2005, with zero self-consciousness on the part of the writers

criminal minds has to be the lamest nominally successful police procedural of the past 20 years

Season 2 of broadchurch is weird

Why on earth is danny’s father replicating his son’s killer’s behavior—meeting privately with the young boy?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rinko-kikuchi-star-michael-mann-hbo-max-series-tokyo-vice-1282655

aaaahhhhh yes please will watch

but wtf is hbo max?

who knows, stealing it anyway

otm

Mare Of EastTown is v good so far

Kate Winslets character reminds me a bit of Happy Valley main character ie beaten down divorced cop grandmother w dead kid

the story is different but has that kind of vibe, bleakness & good writing but more wry humor in this

also guy pearce doing a+ silver fox work as always

literally everyone is suspicious & fairly convincingly so, def scratches a whodunnit itch if you have one

(on hbomoax, 2 eps up so far, weekly)

yeah this is great, except for the montage showing the local kids all being interviewed which was really jarring in tone, like something out of a quirky indie comedy. But I'm in this for the long haul