fav cop/crime dramas

[ecuworrier]

ojk one has to ask the question why is the cop series/forensics/ law and order etc genre so popular? i has to ask a serious question in this ...

 while asking the important question which are your favs and why?

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[ecuworrier]

well to answer the all important question... over the years it's been a variety Softly softly and the bill with early imagination captured in the various forensic series...

favs that come to mind ...  and i think i am asking the question cos it's so annoying when a fav series comes to an end and there aint really a show that takes over the interest.....

'homicide-life on the streets' used to be showed at silly then even sillier times on channel 4.. remains my all time favourite detective series...p-ound for pound.. a mix of sympathetic and underwhelming people on the team... at least one significant woman cop ... the complex interactions.. pretty good directing and acting from folks who none of them were household names.... i liked the hand held style and ... was it in b/w or was that just my telly....  it is one that is heavily based on research of an actual cop team and it's cool not to be in NY or LA

i like CSI (Las Vegas ) for forensics team and logic is that really futuristic lab they have there... though haven't seen too much of the series without Grissom

though Silent Witness isn't bad Waking the dead  at times rather fanciful terrible policework at times

Cold case... forensic policework at times some way off the original events .... was thoroughly irritated and bemused the first episode or two i saw randomly arriving mid investigation ... i didn't get the apparency of ghosts? ...  the flashback formula to original timeframe folks as they were 'at the time'... but it has grown on me enormously the more episodes i have seen probs that secret formula of no guarantee whatsoever that i will like it... strong women characters and roles ...oh the woman who has had to battle to get there .... and shocking as well as moving story lines with social history rocking in and out of time...  it's the closest thing to watching Judge Judy in terms of the characters of the stories and in that sense a vagueness of emotional reality..

Law and order SVU... gruesome stories strong women's roles



oh and if it makes me cry all the better

used to like Morse though they seemed to spend most of the episode doing the wrong thing ... and like Lewis and Hatthaway mostly cos of the religious themes
Gently though i really don't like the pair of them's sense of humanity

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[JJ]

None.

Apart from Morse when we lived in US, just because it reminded us of home and the city where we used to live. Though we never did see any of them murdering mathematicians at any tea parties. 

I now watch Lewis for the same reason and because of Laurence Fox.



I have occasionally watched one or two others like The Bill or prison dramas but never found them to be very true to life - just a bit hammy and glib - domestic abuse or **** cases are not really policed like they are in the movies.

[EliB]

My favourite genre of drama:

I really miss The Bill - it was a brilliant programme and I'll never know why they axed it, particularly when ITV is now full of reality tv garbage!!!
I also love most, but not all, of the US ones. LOVE all the Law and Order Franchise - particularly the original L&O (especially the old ones with Jerry Orbach!!) but also SVU! My sister can't understand why I love SVU but there's something very satsifying about seeing rapists and abusers being sentenced to "20 to life" etc, even if it IS only fictional cases! The kind of sentencing that's realistic to the crime!! Don't like Law and Order UK - don't think it's worked.
Also love CSI but ONLY the NY one! Do not like the Vegas one and can't stand the red haired guy from CSI Miami - a more wooden actor I've never seen!
Am also a massive NCIS fan....got them all on DVD (as I have with SVU and CSI:NY too!!) I love that NCIS is gritty but also very funny and the real relationships that grow (suppose all the shows have that element!!)

Other British shows - used to love Silent Witness when Amanda Burton was in it, but it went downhill after she left. The early Waking the Dead's were good too, but again not so good in latter years!

Oooh - just in the mood for a wee NCIS episode now....

[Jan]

I miss The Bill too Eli. Would much rather watch that than the big brother x facto(ry) stuff  . Shame they axed it.
Law & Order (UK), Silk, Silent Witness, Waking the dead ... etc etc
Also enjoyed watching Sherlock (fairly recent crime drama series on BBC1. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures in 21st Century London)

[AndyHB]

I enjoy 'Bones' and NCIS - even though they are from the Fox (Rupert Murdoch) stable.  Since none of the shows can ever really be described as giving a real picture, these two are at least slightly less 'obvious', because of the angle they come from.

[Boudi]

Always been a Sherlock Holmes fan, and remain impressed by Jeremy Brett in the role.  The recent re-boots have been OK, but still can't touch the 'real' Holmes that Brett became!