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Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.

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This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]

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Kathy A - Aug 14, 2010 5:38:19 pm PDT #5887 of 11838
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Thanks for the YouTube suggestion for Season 5! I've just made my way through half of the season, skipping The Performer (since it'll be on A&E tomorrow) and 100 (which I've already seen most of on YouTube already). Just watched Uncanny Valley--oh so creepy! Loved the diabetic victim. As soon as the unsub left the ladies behind, she's ditching the IV and saying, "Let's go." I love this show when the female victims (of all ages) fight back and try and save themselves. (Also, loved when the boutique's owner got all snippy over the dated "doll" dress, but then got pushed out of the way by the seamstress who pointed out that it was handcrafted by an artist with the needle.)

Reid is already pissed at Dr. Daddy Frakes before he has his "inference" confrontation with him (again, already seen that on YouTube) as soon as he found out he'd subjected his 10-y.o. daughter to electroshock. Character consistency is such a great thing to have on a long-running tv series. Reid being the defender of the mentally ill has been around since the beginning, and I love it when the writers use it.

Barb - Aug 14, 2010 6:21:09 pm PDT #5888 of 11838
“Not dead yet!”

Uncanny Valley was phenomenal-- I loved that it was one of those creepy ones without a lot of gore or violent deaths. And wrathful Reid is a thing of beauty.

billytea - Aug 14, 2010 7:37:15 pm PDT #5889 of 11838
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Uncanny Valley is the only CM ep I've seen. Creeped me right out. Clearly I will need to rent the DVDs at some stage.

Barb - Aug 14, 2010 8:14:02 pm PDT #5890 of 11838
“Not dead yet!”

The entirety of the show is deeply psychological, but it's really, really at its best when the cases have the UnSubs be as much victim as perpetrator, such as in Uncanny Valley, Conflicted, or Pleasure is My Business. Or conversely, when the UnSubs deliberately pit themselves against the profilers, such as in Fisher King, No Way Out, or Masterpiece.

At least, those are the eps I tend to like the best.

Vortex - Aug 14, 2010 10:20:30 pm PDT #5891 of 11838
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Uncanny Valley was the ep where I really saw Reid's maturity. His confrontation of the unsub's father as amazing, he made eye contact, he didn't sutter or dither. Wonderful.

le nubian - Aug 15, 2010 4:42:07 pm PDT #5892 of 11838
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Leverage:

This AG from West Virginia is a trip. I can't believe the writers went THERE.

Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2010 5:31:09 pm PDT #5893 of 11838
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

le n, there's already someone on John's blog getting all pissy because they went there.

Any public figure can be parodied! Why shouldn't they parody Palin ?

le nubian - Aug 15, 2010 5:52:57 pm PDT #5894 of 11838
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

no shit. and she's a cheap target anyway. it isn't like he went after Ronald Reagan.

§ ita § - Aug 15, 2010 7:09:34 pm PDT #5895 of 11838
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Leverage isn't a procedural.

le nubian - Aug 15, 2010 7:17:20 pm PDT #5896 of 11838
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

oh crap. I keep thinking it is!

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