#crime dramas

[vavandeveresfan]

Columbo gets angry. Mood.

I can so identify with him in this compilation.

A little guy who believes in justice, who uses his cunning and wiles to lure murderers into smug complacency, and then nails their asses while smiling benignly. But every now and then his patience reaches a snapping point, the facade is tossed aside, and you see the passion in him.

Damn, I love Columbo. If anyone tries to remake this series I'll commit murder.

For the record, Columbo isn't really angry with the young man he's yelling at in Italian. He's pressuring him to give some information. I think. The only Italian I know are names of foods.

[gene-forrester]

About all this Nietzche stuff. Do you really think there are super-intellects?

Yes, as matter of fact, I do.

Compulsion (1959) dir. Richard Fleischer

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

Not enough crime dramas acknowledge periods.

"We found her dress covered in blood!"

"Oh really, Mr male detective written by Mr male crime writer, she must have mashed the victim to death."

[belle-keys]

any recommendations for courtroom dramas that aren't law & order, htgawm, suits, or anatomy of a scandal? bonus points of you can recommend me a legal drama aired in spanish.

[nsabuzz]

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[duchessofostergotlands]

I just finished the Earthshot Prize and the BBC clearly know me as the next thing they recommended was not only a gritty crime drama but it’s also set in Aberdeen. You know I’m going to have to watch that to analyse everyone’s accents and shout “I’VE BEEN THERE” at the screen every three minutes

[m-jay-gee]

crime drama tv writers start foaming at the mouth when they see a wife

[dailyflicks]

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Official Trailer

[vavandeveresfan]

Adding Columbo.

I made a collage of my favorite sleuths.

But I noticed someone was missing. I added him today.

He definitely deserves such esteemed company.

Printed from a screenshot by @columboscreens . I love this pose.

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

Question for crime drama fans:

When they have a corpse of a chatacter and you can see all of them, that's just the actor right? I feel so stupid asking this because I'm 99% sure I'm right but part of me feels skeptical. Like do they just use a silicone arm when they're just looking at someone's arm? Am I an idiot? I feel like an idiot. I just want to be absolutely 100% sure that this is what's going on. Am I looking at a man on a table or am I looking at a fake man?

[thestuffedalligator]

I read Fat Face by Michael Shea last month and it was. Fine? It was a Cthulhu Mythos story written in the 80s, it was very edgy and it had a lot of tropes I’m not a fan of, I don’t really recommend it, but I have to talk about one detail I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.

So. I knew Fat Face through reputation because it was the story that inspired Shoggoth Lords from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, shoggoths that can control their cellular makeup to look like humans. And the twist in Fat Face is that shoggoths have been hiding amongst humans in Los Angeles, and at the end of the story one of them eats the protagonist.

The tone of the story is grit. It’s grime. It’s sleaze and sexual violence and drug abuse on top of cosmic horror. It wants to be taken seriously so bad.

But here’s the thing about the shoggoths: they have a business.

They have two businesses they run out of an office building in downtown Los Angeles. A shoggoth is a primordial blob of eyes and mouths and flesh and hunger, and the idea of one of them at the LA Office of Finance registering an LLC is already. Great. Perfect. No notes.

The business is a front — and again, that’s great, a shoggoth went, “I want to do some nefarious deeds and not get caught by humans; I know, I’ll register a fake business that’ll be a front, and no human will ever suspect” — because the actual interior of this office is a room of pools of water made from black and ancient Antarctic rocks so that shoggoths can relax in their original blobby forms and eat stray animals that they’ve caught.

So it’s basically just. A place for shoggoths to unwind after a long day of pretending to be human. It’s portrayed as cosmic horror, but it’s shoggoth Cheers. Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your shape.

Here’s the kicker. The front of the business is a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

When they decided to make a front for their secret lair in an LA office building where they hang out in pools of water and eat stray animals — the front they prominently display and advertise — they decided to go with a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

That is Goosebumps shit. The rest of the story reads like a tone poem about the sleaze and violence of Los Angeles, and the main twist of the story reads like R.L. Stine.

But that’s not even the detail I can’t stop thinking about. Because the story reveals that this business — which again, is a front made by alien blobs to eat stray animals like an ALF-themed buffet and hang out in jacuzzi tubs of Antarctic rocks in an LA office — has a flyer.

Which means there’s a shoggoth with a passion for graphic design

[nsabuzz]

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[k-wame]

JACOB ELORDI He Went That Way (2023) dir. Jeffrey Darling

[tubi]

On Tubi, the crime dramas you love just keep going.

[netflixia]

The Stranger - Trailer

A small circle of seasoned undercover cops must pose as a vast and influential criminal network to catch a murderer who has evaded conviction for eight years.