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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 23, 2020 13:56:09 GMT
Burn Notice Las Vegas X-Files
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Post by LaraQ on Jun 23, 2020 16:34:11 GMT
Luther The Killing Mindhunter Broadchurch Elementary
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 23, 2020 18:32:10 GMT
Law & Order Criminal Intent Hill Street Blues Yeah they're old school
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Post by flasuss on Jun 23, 2020 18:37:12 GMT
Luther The Killing Mindhunter Broadchurch Elementary Yeah, Mindhunter is certainly not the type of show the OP is referring. Anyway, the OG Law & Order might have been the best in this, but Criminal Intent was also good.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Jun 23, 2020 19:12:13 GMT
The Blacklist
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Post by LaraQ on Jun 23, 2020 19:53:56 GMT
Luther The Killing Mindhunter Broadchurch Elementary Yeah, Mindhunter is certainly not the type of show the OP is referring. Anyway, the OG Law & Order might have been the best in this, but Criminal Intent was also good. Mindhunter is a procedural show,so it certainly is the type the OP was referring to.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 23, 2020 20:16:57 GMT
The GOAT: Cowboy Bebop. Typically we have standalone "catch the bad guy" episodes, but the beauty of the show is how it is always tweaking itself. For example, there are three "lovers on the run" stories in twenty-six episodes, and they're all intentionally variations of each other. Episode 1 is about Spike hunting down a drug dealer and his pregnant girlfriend, a woman who is forced to make a critical choice for her future at the end. Episode 10 is the same story: a man goes on the run for murder and his girlfriend joins him. She, too, is forced to make the same exact choice (right down to the specifics of what she is holding in her hands). But the story goes in a different direction, because she's a different person who has had vastly different development. Episodes 25-26 tell the same story again (with the same specific elements), only this time it focuses on characters we've known for awhile, people who have had a whole series to develop and grow, and again deliver a different variation.
Although a lot of these formulaic shows would repeat scenarios, CB is the only one I know of that embraced its ability to play different riffs on the same core formula. Much like the jazz that inspired it.
And on top of that, there were plenty of episodes that didn't fit any formula, such as the hilarious Alien parody (which ties in to the character arcs so, so well on top of being a blast) or that time Spike and Jet try to find a Betamax player for a whole episode.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 23, 2020 20:33:02 GMT
There are days where I catch myself wearing my Columbo t shirt ("There's just one more thing" on it) while looking thru the Interior Design on Columbo twitter account (what the??) while also thinking "If I was to watch an episode tonight , which one? Muahaha." That should answer the question. Having said that, while Falk is like human comfort food (um??) to me, Prime Suspect is as perfect a "series" I've seen and Mirren gives one of the greatest, deepest perfs of all-time.
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Post by bob-coppola on Jun 23, 2020 22:49:58 GMT
I wouldn't say it is my favorite, but it's severely underrated everywhere: Cold Case. I just loved how they managed to inject a sense of tragedy and heartbreak into so many one-and-done stories.
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Post by morton on Jun 23, 2020 23:05:02 GMT
There are days where I catch myself wearing my Columbo t shirt ("There's just one more thing" on it) while looking thru the Interior Design on Columbo twitter account (what the??) while also thinking "If I was to watch an episode tonight , which one? Muahaha." That should answer the question. Having said that, while Falk is like human comfort food (um??) to me, Prime Suspect is as perfect a "series" I've seen and Mirren gives one of the greatest, deepest perfs of all-time. Unfortunately the petition to change Columbus to Columbo never caught on, but the petition for Flavortown has. Maybe it’s because Columbo is a cop. The show gets my vote though for this topic. Other Favorite Procedurals/Formulaic Shows: Murder, She Wrote Perry Mason Matlock The Pretender? (Generally followed the same pattern of the lead character helping someone, learning about something new like yo-yos, and ending with him escaping those looking for him. I hated that there never any ending for it.) Starman (The Pretender reminded me of this series. I remember watching it when I was really, really young, but I don’t think it ever had a proper ending either. I just remember getting a crush on the son who’d go on to being a Greg in The Brady Bunch movies.) Original Law and Order Procedurals/Formulaic Shows That Aren’t My Favorite But Hold a Special Place for Me: NCIS - My dad loved this show, and it was one of the few safe shows that I could like without rolling my eyes or having to bite my tongue when I’d visit like a lot of what he and his wife watched. CSI: Miami - For some reason this was one of my mom’s favorite shows right before her mind really slipped away. Once Upon a Time - For the first season, I was such a huge fan of it even though it was pretty formulaic, but then a few episodes in to the second season, I realized that the writers had no bigger plan in mind which sucked because the show had so much promise in bringing so many different famous fictional characters together. Disney would probably prevent any show runners from having fun with it, but they could revive it now that they have so many new characters that they could let the show runners use in it.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 24, 2020 2:02:34 GMT
I’ll add The A-Team and MacGyver for older ones.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 24, 2020 5:40:19 GMT
Loved MacGyver for most of my childhood, and some Criminal Minds in my teens. Don't watch any procedural shows anymore.
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Post by thomasjerome on Jun 24, 2020 9:43:08 GMT
I used to like "Criminal Minds" and some of "Lie to Me".
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Post by cheesecake on Jun 25, 2020 5:14:11 GMT
Law & Order Criminal Intent We're doing a rewatch of the series right now and it's weird that it takes a few episodes for Goren to go full Goren, but then he goes HARD. I love how it feels like he's free to just do his own thing in the background of scenes. Unfortunately season three is really lackluster so far but the leads are always great.
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Post by cheesecake on Jun 25, 2020 5:14:35 GMT
I used to like "Criminal Minds" and some of "Lie to Me". Gosh, I loved Lie to Me.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 25, 2020 8:50:16 GMT
Law & Order Criminal Intent We're doing a rewatch of the series right now and it's weird that it takes a few episodes for Goren to go full Goren, but then he goes HARD. I love how it feels like he's free to just do his own thing in the background of scenes. Unfortunately season three is really lackluster so far but the leads are always great. I like him through season 4 very much .........love would be the word actually .....it's my favorite non-cable TV performance/character EVER (0 Emmy nominations!) and what makes it really fascinating to me are the episodes where his peers kind of either really dislike or at least do not understand his methods or him on a personal level so there's almost always some tension within the storylines........some of those early shows are fascinatingly vague about Goren in relation to his peers, suggesting a lot but never fully explaining him which was a great choice............ I think they actually keep it up through season 4 where you still learn things about him that are sort of fascinatingly sketchy. It also mimics how D'Onofrio plays the part which can be misunderstood by an audience too....... By seasons 5 and 6 everyone he has ever met in his life though is a serial killer and everything is also suddenly overwritten as he then suffers one traumatic horror after another almost to an extent that you can't believe it's the same show that once had an enigmatic central character at all
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Post by stephen on Jul 4, 2020 16:49:22 GMT
We're doing a rewatch of the series right now and it's weird that it takes a few episodes for Goren to go full Goren, but then he goes HARD. I love how it feels like he's free to just do his own thing in the background of scenes. Unfortunately season three is really lackluster so far but the leads are always great. I like him through season 4 very much .........love would be the word actually .....it's my favorite non-cable TV performance/character EVER (0 Emmy nominations!) and what makes it really fascinating to me are the episodes where his peers kind of either really dislike or at least do not understand his methods or him on a personal level so there's almost always some tension within the storylines........some of those early shows are fascinatingly vague about Goren in relation to his peers, suggesting a lot but never fully explaining him which was a great choice............ I think they actually keep it up through season 4 where you still learn things about him that are sort of fascinatingly sketchy. It also mimics how D'Onofrio plays the part which can be misunderstood by an audience too....... By seasons 5 and 6 everyone he has ever met in his life though is a serial killer and everything is also suddenly overwritten as he then suffers one traumatic horror after another almost to an extent that you can't believe it's the same show that once had an enigmatic central character at all We're not yet at Season 4 yet, but having not seen the show since its original run, it's still fascinating to see how quickly Goren becomes Goren. I had no idea Nicole Wallace showed up so early, and twice at that!
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 4, 2020 17:00:51 GMT
I like him through season 4 very much .........love would be the word actually .....it's my favorite non-cable TV performance/character EVER (0 Emmy nominations!) and what makes it really fascinating to me are the episodes where his peers kind of either really dislike or at least do not understand his methods or him on a personal level so there's almost always some tension within the storylines........some of those early shows are fascinatingly vague about Goren in relation to his peers, suggesting a lot but never fully explaining him which was a great choice............ I think they actually keep it up through season 4 where you still learn things about him that are sort of fascinatingly sketchy. It also mimics how D'Onofrio plays the part which can be misunderstood by an audience too....... By seasons 5 and 6 everyone he has ever met in his life though is a serial killer and everything is also suddenly overwritten as he then suffers one traumatic horror after another almost to an extent that you can't believe it's the same show that once had an enigmatic central character at all We're not yet at Season 4 yet, but having not seen the show since its original run, it's still fascinating to see how quickly Goren becomes Goren. I had no idea Nicole Wallace showed up so early, and twice at that!There's a great little moment that shows you where the show goes wrong later when earlier it did things so "right" ......in the 2nd Wallace episode I don't believe Goren actually sees her until he's in a restaurant (alone) and the waitresses says to him "you must really like that dish it's the third time you've ordered it this week?" (it may be Chicken Parm iirc?)".......Goren not looking at her says flirtingly "maybe I just like seeing you write it down".........when he looks up it's Nicole...... That kind of incidental thing, and sly things with the character and how quirkily he was written early on and how that was used to introduce him within the plot points was fabulous....it gets crazy lost later in the run but .......it was really great (and great fun!) while it lasted......
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Post by Sharbs on Jul 4, 2020 17:31:21 GMT
The Sopranos s1 - The Americans s1
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