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1. Sir Barken Hyena says:

   October 26, 2012 at 9:15 pm

   We used to watch Cold Case Files a lot, damn what a depressing show.

   I’m hooked on Breaking Bad and The Wire, so crime would be mine as well. That genre exposes human passions in a big way.

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2. dearieme says:

   October 26, 2012 at 9:21 pm

   ‘Tecs. Sherlock, Lewis and Commissario Montalbano recently.

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3. junedentzer says:

   October 27, 2012 at 3:11 am

   I don’t know if I have genre. Possibly the darker the better. Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, American Horror Story, Walking Dead,

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4. Paleo Retiree says:

   October 27, 2012 at 3:15 am

   The true-crime shows we’ve enjoyed lately have been “Hardcover Mysteries,” “Cold Blood,” “Disappeared” and “Sins and Secrets.” Good cases, not too flashily/assaultively made, well-told … They’re all on Netflix streaming.

   One funny thing that happens sometimes when you’ve watched as many true-crime episodes as we have is that you’ll run across a familiar case but on a different show than you first saw it on. Weird feeling, like revisiting a dream, only thru someone else’s head.

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   • Paleo Retiree says:

     October 27, 2012 at 3:57 am

     Of the above, the one I liked best was “Sins and Secrets.” Clearly patterned on the great “City Confidential” — juicily-written narration, nearly as much emphasis on the community the crime disrupted as on the crime itself. Not quite up to City Confidential but pretty darned good.

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5. Holm says:

   October 27, 2012 at 4:00 am

   Sitcoms…but giving less and less a shit about them…

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6. Fabrizio del Wrongo says:

   October 27, 2012 at 4:59 pm

   Nature docs!

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   • Paleo Retiree says:

     October 27, 2012 at 5:19 pm

     Love nature footage. What are the good nature-doc series these days?

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7. Sax von Stroheim says:

   October 27, 2012 at 7:24 pm

   I really love watching old “anthology”-style dramas – “Twilight Zone”, “Alfred Hitchcock”, etc. I like that you get to see a different set of actors in each episode, and the best of them work like little movies. (I love, love, love Screen Director’s Playhouse, which they show on TCM sometimes).

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8. Fenster says:

   November 7, 2012 at 6:10 pm

   If you like true crime have you come across the British Trial and Retribution? A creation of Lynda La Plante, of Prime Suspect fame. Structurally somewhat like Law and Order–there’s the procedural, then the legal outcome. Though here the legal outcome is often truncated and through the looking glass, as though the police side is real and what follows folly. Indeed, the legal outcome can sometimes be shocking, arbitrary and inconclusive. There’s a fair amount of blood and guts in the procedural side but my kids ended up being creeped out more by the outcomes. “Is it over? How did it end that way”.

   My kind of show. I don’t think of myself as a post-modernist but I do love subverting creaky genres.

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