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Big crimes, small screen; true crime television series and TV documentaries that recreate and reexamine some of the mystifying and grisliest cases in history.
Saying Goodbye (For Now) To My Morbid Hobby Turned Obsession. Top Story - May 2022.
In recent years, I’ve taken up a, more often than not, rather morbid hobby; one that millions of Americans indulge in every day. As a nation and as a global society, our obsession with this particular genre of information has inspired TV shows, movies, books, and entire societies/communities; both digital and not.
By Soha Sherwani4 years ago in Criminal
We know you did it: The perks pf crime dramas
‘We know you did it’: The perks of crime dramas My idea of heaven on a weeknight is to sit down after dinner with a hot drink and watch a murder. Now this may sound odd. But crime dramas have been around for decades and have only proliferated in popularity, thanks to the likes of such gems as Luther and Line of Duty in the UK and long-running favourites such as Criminal Minds, Law and Order: SVU and CSI in America. In Australia, the crime drama obsession reached its real-world peak when the first season of Underbelly (detailing Carl William’s involvement in the underworld) was banned from screening in Victoria as the trial was still ongoing and potential jurors may have been be ‘unduly influenced’ by the show.
By Ruth Bradbury4 years ago in Criminal
Peaky Blinders - A Fitting Finale
Setting The Scene For The Peaky Blinders Finale This is going to be similar to my piece on the final series of “Killing Eve” in that I will tell you virtually nothing of what happens to avoid spoilers, but try and give you reasons to actually watch this. A warning, if you have never seen “Peaky Blinders” there are six series for you to catch up on, and every one is worth investing your time in.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'Slow Horses' 1.5
A most excellent episode 1.5 of Slow Horses on Apple TV+ this past Friday. Here's why: [Spoilers ahead... ] No explicit flatulence from Lamb in this hour, or even a mention of it from the lead Slow Horse. But he did manage to come through with a comment about being "bitten in the canal". I'd give him credit for that for this episode. He was in the right area -- he wasn't talking about his ear canal, right?
By Paul Levinson4 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'Slow Horses' 1.4
Well, I was glad to see that Slow Horses continued its streak of flatulence by Lamb in episode 1.4, up the other day on Apple TV+, with Lamb advising that some lamb dish he ate earlier would be making a "reappearance". Ok, this was not flatulence per se, it was just an allusion to it, but it gets a boost as a mention with someone named Lamb talking about lamb.
By Paul Levinson4 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'Slow Horses' 1.1-2
Hey, I quickly caught the first two episodes of Slow Horses on Apple TV+, attracted to it by its name. I recall Arthur Shelby cautioning his brother Thomas about "fast women and slow horses" in Peaky Blinders a few years ago, and my old song-writing partner Ed Fox (he wrote the music to my Looking for Sunsets in the Early Morning, I wrote the lyrics) writing a song called "Fast Women and Slow Horses" in the early 1970s.
By Paul Levinson4 years ago in Criminal
Murderville Review
A combination of an absurdly good murder story, comedy and improvisation? Yes, please! I absolutely loved the new series on Netflix with Will Arnett as a senior homicide detective named Terry Seattle who is supposed to solve a murder in every episode with a new partner, a celebrity playing him- or herself. While the show actors have a blueprint for the story, character parameters, and pre-written lines, the celebrities have absolutely no idea of what is about to happen. As true partners to the detective, they interrogate and observe three murder suspects. The episode always starts out with some sort of a test for a new trainee in the form of questions, where Terry and his new partner are supposed to bond. Then they go and investigate the murder. At the end of the episode, they are supposed to solve the case by naming the murderer, usually in a game-show revealing and suspenseful manner, and explain how they arrived at that conclusion. Then Chief Rhonda Jenkins-Seattle (who is also Detective Seattle's estranged wife) comes out and tells whether the celebrity guessed right or wrong, also in a comically suspenseful way with close-ups and dramatic pauses, and explains how the murder was really committed. Throughout the show, the detective and celebrity are fed certain clues that just like in a good murder mystery are supposed to lead the detectives to the right conclusion.
By Lana V Lynx4 years ago in Criminal
