crime tv

[jesskayding]

Favorite shows that remind you of Sherlock.

[jesskayding]

Now an older show: Monk

 

Also the Mentalist.

 

Not as fabulous as Sherlock, but definitely the main characters use the science of deduction.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Then there is the show  "Bones"....all that forensic science.

[Arcadia]

Nothing in the crime vein reminds me of Sherlock, it's genuinely unique, imo.

 

Non-crime shows .... the only thing that comes to mind are Buffy and Firefly. Oh, and a little thing called Dr. Who.

 

Ah, and Babylon 5.

 

And altogether now, what do these shows all have in common?

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Clueless in Belmont.

[Arcadia]

And you're a writer! (hint)

 

Actually, there's at least one other thing they have in common ... a really -- really -- charismatic lead.

[Redbeard]

Murdoch Mysteries reminds me of Sherlock Holmes, not necessarily "Sherlock" though.  But it feels cozy and lead is cool. 

[Caya]

Lie To Me. The first season, anyway. The Holmes-Watson dynamic was brilliant in that one, too, and they pulled it off with a female Watson to boot.

[T.o.b.y]

Nothing reminds me of Sherlock. It's unique. As far as I know.

 

I always liked Masterpiece stuff. Inspector Lewis is cool, for example... Or there used to be one with Diana Rigg that I enjoyed.

[Arcadia]

Lie To Me. The first season, anyway. The Holmes-Watson dynamic was brilliant in that one, too, and they pulled it off with a female Watson to boot.

I'd forgotten that show, it WAS good, wasn't it? Didn't make the Holmesian connection, but maybe cuz I didn't get to see it very often.

[Caya]

I really dug season 1, but it got a bit weird in season 2 and I stopped watching mid-season. Still, great premise and one of the few shows where I felt I'd really learned something inadvertedly, which is always a bonus .

[jesskayding]

Was that on cable?

[jesskayding]

Murdoch Mysteries reminds me of Sherlock Holmes, not necessarily "Sherlock" though. But it feels cozy and lead is cool.

I remember Murdoch.

[Arcadia]

Was that on cable?

Nope, Fox.

[jesskayding]

Oh.

[jesskayding]

Nothing in the crime vein reminds me of Sherlock, it's genuinely unique, imo.

 

Non-crime shows .... the only thing that comes to mind are Buffy and Firefly. Oh, and a little thing called Dr. Who.

 

Ah, and Babylon 5.

 

And altogether now, what do these shows all have in common?

You know... Sherlock is the original detective to which most of not all other detectives have derived.

[T.o.b.y]

You know... Sherlock is the original detective to which most of not all other detectives have derived.

 

On TV, you mean? Maybe... Sherlock Holmes however was far from the first. I think Doyle had Auguste Dupin in mind when he wrote him. He quotes Dupin, anyway. And there are a few more or less obvious parallels.

 

[Arcadia]

 

Nothing in the crime vein reminds me of Sherlock, it's genuinely unique, imo.

 

Non-crime shows .... the only thing that comes to mind are Buffy and Firefly. Oh, and a little thing called Dr. Who.

 

Ah, and Babylon 5.

 

And altogether now, what do these shows all have in common?

You know... Sherlock is the original detective to which most of not all other detectives have derived.

 

What they have in common is ... they are all primarily written by their creator (or re-creator :-) rather than a stable of writers. This struck me because it used to be rare, maybe it's more common now?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Just off the top of my head, I'd say it's a lot easier to write it all yourself if the show has a short season like Sherlock.  Gene Roddenberry was obsessive about Star Trek, but they had to do twenty-some "one-hour" episodes per season, so he farmed out most of the scripts.  It can be done, though -- Carl Reiner wrote at least half of the first season of The Dick Van Dyke Show himself, because he was basing it on his own experiences as a comedy writer.

 

[Arcadia]

Joe Straczynski wrote all but 18 of the 110 episodes of Babylon 5, which just amazes me, frankly. Not every scene was brilliant, but many were, and continuity was tight.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Wow!  That's great.

 

[jesskayding]

Hay I was watching Criminal Minds the other night. Scary stuff! Any way Hodges & Reese combined is like the Sherlock of the show & Shemar Moore is like the Dr. Watson... "Baby girl" is like the Molly & Lestrade of that show. That one woman who couldn't stand Hodges methods & kept trying to demote him is like the Sally Donovan of the show.

 

Hay I have to cope somehow.

[Truthhunter]

I enjoyed these two tv series [Lie to Me and Numbers], perhaps due to the fact I like Sherlock Holmes, as I couldn't help but feel they were kind of like variants of him - one main character reads faces/body language in crime, the other main character solves crimes with math algorithms.

Fascinating programmes.

Did anyone else watch them and notice a comparison ?

[Arcadia]

Which two shows, Truthhunter? And welcome to the forum!
 
Looking over this thread again, I just realized I don't really watch crime shows anymore. Most have them have become too intense/too dark/ too violent for my delicate sensibilities.  :blush2:  And wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much gun use. (BORINGBORINGBORING!!!) But I really liked Without a Trace for basically it's whole run, and the original Law and Order until they lost Jerry Orbach. But neither of them remind me even the tiniest bit of Sherlock.

[jesskayding]

I think truth is referring to Reese & Hodges in Criminal minds. Yeah Arcadia you couldn't handle criminal Minds... It can get scary & lately I love being scared.