I don't like the episodes where one of the team has to be cleared of a murder (that OF COURSE they didn't commit), but that'll be one episode per season. It's these interminable arcs with a relationship that is DOOMED (and not in the good way) and they go on and on and on.
Wesley: I stabbed you. I should apologize for that. But I'm honestly not sure how. I think it'll just be awkward. Gunn: Good call. Wesley: Okay.
'Time Bomb'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
Toddson - May 22, 2009 5:26:33 am PDT #3265 of 11831
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 6:00:18 am PDT #3266 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never managed to take CSI: Miami seriously, although I have watched a ton of it--someone at WX suggested watching it like a comedy and that was very entertaining. It always seemed to be too much about Horatio Caine's sheer marvellousness,
I just wanted to put in a note of how GREAT Garrett Dillahunt was in Criminal Minds. He played every phase of the unsub with great delicacy.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2009 6:12:26 am PDT #3267 of 11831
brillig
I want a procedural where the accused spouse really did not have an affair, where the other spouse really is just an obsessive nutball and the sympathetic other person really is just sympathetic. Every time our investigative heros get into the interrogation room and start screaming at the suspect, I'm rooting for the suspect to be proven innocent and then to sue the investigators for abuse.
NCIS and Bones will occasionally have someone innocent in the interrogation room. And on at least one Bones, the guilty party didn't confess and there wasn't enough evidence for a good case. It was very refreshing.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2009 6:27:45 am PDT #3268 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Don't forget the very special episode
Bonus points if they can combine a, b and c.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2009 6:30:28 am PDT #3269 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Garrett Dillahunt
I love him, but the only time I haven't seem him play a villain (generally one of maximum loathsomeness) of some kind was on John from Cicninatti (except maybe John Henry on SCC, but his earlier incarnation definitely was).
brenda m - May 22, 2009 6:33:21 am PDT #3270 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh! There was a John Henry look alike on the bus the other morning and it creeped me right the fuck out.
(Something in his posture and stillness making it the character and not the actor that he doppelganged.)
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 6:40:07 am PDT #3271 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can remember innocent parties in the box in L&O and The Closer off the top of my head.
erikaj - May 22, 2009 9:30:07 am PDT #3272 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
And then there's H:LOTS. Where they can get the right guy in the Box and still make you wonder who the bad guy is.
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 10:47:17 am PDT #3273 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
CSI and Cold Case are always calling people into the box until they hit one that sings. Every episode. It's not that rare, I don't think.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2009 11:23:53 am PDT #3274 of 11831
brillig
It may be anti-social of me, but I love when the guilty one won't crack. The cases are so often so flimsy that they wouldn't get anywhere without a confession. And I notice the cases almost never show the conviction. Which is standard, I believe.