Sentences with phrase «as a crime procedural»

It essentially plays out as a crime procedural with a blind guy leading the investigation.

Not exact matches

However, Black - ish cuts through the noise of countless cookie cutter crime procedurals and sitcoms that could exist in 1994 as much as today (yes, we're looking at you Last Man Standing).

A character - driven, true - crime procedural exploring sex, politics and popular culture in 1980s Los Angeles as two detectives hunt for a serial killing duo reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde.

The following year, the hit CBS crime procedural drama CSI hired her services as Ronnie Lake, a temporary replacement for Sara Sidle.

Marshall might be dripping with dramatization in its crime procedural trajectory and Grisham Lite tone as a plaintive court drama, but the film plays like a welcome crowd pleaser.

Starring Alan Cumming, the police procedural will be the first major network crime drama to have a gay man as its leading character.

It is also as gripping as any procedural crime thriller, and cops and police doctors do play a role.

At times, Berg seems to be leaning into that idea, but before she can truly explore it, she gets distracted by her duties as director of a far too familiar crime procedural.

This isn't your normal procedural crime drama as there's plenty of sleaze and nudity to help spice things up.

This could have been a crime thriller or a police procedural, but Eastwood turns it toward almost Shakespearean tragedy, as each man's character plays out in his fate.

Crime offerings include «The Fix,» a legal thriller co-written and produced by Marcia Clark; «Take Two,» a procedural starring Rachel Bilson and Eddie Cibrian from the producers of «Castle»; and «Harrow,» an Australian series starring Ioan Gruffudd as a man whose empathy for the dead helps him in his work as a forensic pathologist.

TIM STEVENS: As a young adult, I loved the police procedurals of Ed McBain and John Sandford, who's still going strong with his Lucas Davenport series of crime thrillers.

A procedural mystery has as its key factor a blow - by - blow, thoroughly researched and specifically described analysis of how the crime is solved, by whatever means is the specialty of the main character.

But it's the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon's police procedurals so engaging... In his sensitive dealings with the victims of crime, Brunetti proves as much a psychologist and social worker as a cop... Tagging along after this sleuth is a wonderful way to see Venice like a native.»

So, fans of police procedurals may be as excited as I was to read on Ed Goreman's blog that Hard Case Crime will be publishing two lost novels by Ed McBain, both of which have been unavailable for over 50 years.

This was because the dominant purpose of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 was to make confiscation the duty of the court and it would defeat the purpose of the confiscation legislation if orders were treated as bad simply because there had been a failure to comply with procedural provisions laid down for postponement.

✔ Implemented an inventory based innovative system of apprehending and questioning suspects, which was later adopted by other police departments as well ✔ Issued the first written manual of procedural recommendations for facilitation of newly hired personnel ✔ Participated in 3 large scale nationwide crime awareness and citizen self protection campaigns