crime tv

[Arcadia]

I tried watching it a few times, always turned it off after a few minutes. I don't find it scary, just too ... grim, I guess is the best word.

[jesskayding]

Yeah... It freaks me out because these kind of villains could really exhist. & they always use such ordinary looking people. They would never really stand out. There are times after watching an episode I seem to walk a bit faster to & from the bus stop.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I enjoyed these two tv series, 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 ?

 

Truthhunter posted this in its own thread, titled (near as I recall) "Lie to Me and Numbers."  Since we already had this thread for discussing that sort of program, Martina moved the post here, and mentioned the program titles in her Edited By line.  But apparently no one noticed the Edited By line, so no one knew what programs were referred to above.

 

Now you know.  So -- any comments?

 

[Arcadia]

I enjoyed these two tv series, 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 ?

Truthhunter posted this in its own thread, titled (near as I recall) "Lie to Me and Numbers."  Since we already had this thread for discussing that sort of program, Martina moved the post here, and mentioned the program titles in her Edited By line.  But apparently no one noticed the Edited By line, so no one knew what programs were referred to above.

 

Now you know.  So -- any comments?

 

Aha. You're right, I didn't notice. I would make a LOUSY detective.

 

As to comments ... I rather liked Numbers too, but never enough to really follow it. It was a little formulaic for my taste. Lie to Me I liked quite a lot, but it's been so long I don't remember much else about it. It never occurred to me to compare either of them to Sherlock Holmes, altho it might have if I'd have a reason to think about such things at the time.

[jesskayding]

Oh...

[jesskayding]

I remember those shows being promoted, but they came on while I was @ work. But now they seem to no longer be broadcasting on public television.

[Arcadia]

Mmm, they were on the commercial networks. Fox and .... CBS, I think?

 

Commercials ... that's another reason a lot of my friends/family refuse to watch anything but PBS.

[Truthhunter]

Thanks. I liked Numbers, but more the concept of reasoning by using algorithms, which I guess stemmed from my enjoying the film A Beautiful Mind based on the life of John Nash. I was fascinated.

 

Lie To Me was more closer to a Sherlock method of reading individuals.

 

At two ends of a scale, I also liked Columbo (1970s series/films) the way he was always underestimated due to his appearance and manner. Also, Inspector Morse, though more to his liking of crosswords, classical music and apparently chess, which are my own likings too. Lewis irritated the hell out of me, lacking very much from the amiable Watson .

[by the sea]

Numbers is on Netflix ... here in Canada, anyway, so I'm assuming it would be in the US.  Is Lie to Me the show about the man who could tell you were lying because of physical signs ??  He was British ?  I think I saw a bit of an episode but found it frustrating.  My mother talks bout Columbo  so I've caught a few episodes but it drives me crazy.  I like to have the crime solving kind of unfold as the story moves on.  With Columbo you know right off the bat who did it and all he did was harass the perpetrator until he would confess to sinking the Titanic to get this annoying little man off his case.  Yikes !  I'm kind of on the fence about Inspector Morse ... but I love Endeavour !   I also enjoy Inspector Lewis and George Gently.  The British seem to have an abundance of partner crime solvers.  I think I've mentioned that it seems like I've seen about a thousand episodes of Midsomer Murders ... Tom Barnaby and Gavin Troy ... Tom Barnaby and John Scott ... Tom Barnaby and Ben Jones ... John Barnaby and Ben Jones ... I think the show will go on forever !

 

Debbie

[Truthhunter]

Columbo was what I call easy tv, as in a detective series that doesn't need much thought process, more entertainment factor, as not everybody wants to have to think through situations trying to solve the crimes, but rather watch it as is, the crime, criminal and investigation all shown clearly.

 

Lewis's sidekick Hathaway should have had his own series. He was well-read, articulate, and just about had the look of a modern Sherlock Holmes.

 

Midsomer Murders had more than its fair share of homicides for such a small village/town. I remember a newspaper set out a map of Midsomer and coloured in pink where murders, etc., had taken place, leaving nearly the whole place that colour.

 

Not sure many would want to live there, as you might not live very long.

[by the sea]

Midsomer Murders had more than its fair share of homicides for such a small village/town. I remember a newspaper set out a map of Midsomer and coloured in pink where murders, etc., had taken place, leaving nearly the whole place that colour.

 

Not sure many would want to live there, as you might not live very long.

 

LOL !    That's the truth.  I have some DVDs of the old Murder She Wrote series and Jessica Fletcher is the character to Midsomer's location.  Whenever she shows up, somebody is murdered ... even in the pretty little village where she lives ... a place you wouldn't expect to see a murder in a hundred years.  Good advice:  if you see ol' Jessica, run like hell in the other direction !   

 

Debbie

[Carol the Dabbler]

The show finally acknowledged that, and had another character refer to Jessica as "the Typhoid Mary of murder."

 

Then they moved her to New York City, where she presumably blended in just fine.

 

[jesskayding]

Hmmm. I've heard of Colombo, but I don't think I've seen a show. How long has it been around?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Peter Falk's first appearance as Columbo was a movie of the week in 1968; then there was a regular series through most of the 70's, followed by occasional TV movies between 1989 and 2003.  It was one of my favorite detective shows (but then I have a lot of favorite detective shows).

[jesskayding]

Yeah. I don't know what it is about detectives. I do love them. I also enjoy true crime. Like unsolved mysteries & 60 minutes. "Great Stuff!" - the cabby.