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TV crime drama

August 2024

  • Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox in Irving Welsh’s Crime.

    TV review
    Irvine Welsh’s Crime series two review – as dark and twisted as Luther

    This police drama’s at its best when it does bold, dastardly action, with Dougray Scott every bit as compelling a lead as Idris Elba. Shame about the more po-faced scenes …

July 2024

  • Mick Herron.

    Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’

    His spy series became the TV hit Slow Horses, and now his earlier novels are being adapted for screen, starring Emma Thompson. Mick Herron talks about finding recognition
  • Those About To Die - Season 1<br>THOSE ABOUT TO DIE -- Episode -- Pictured: (l-r) -- (Photo by: PEACOCK)

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Those About to Die; Lady in the Lake; The Jetty; Simone Biles Rising – review

    Anthony Hopkins fights for his life in a Game of Thrones-lite ancient Rome; Natalie Portman is a small-screen natural; a great twist lifts a clunking crime drama; and from trauma to domestic bliss with the star gymnast

    • If you like Baby Reindeer, you’ll love Young Mungo! 29 terrific TV shows – and the books to read instead

    • Observer TV reviews
      The week in TV: Wimbledon; Euro 2024; GF Newman Remembers… Law and Order; The Turkish Detective; Spent; Sunny – review

    • Pass notes
      ‘Some violent moments’: does Midsomer Murders really need a trigger warning?

June 2024

  • Alice Englert in Exposure, 2024 Stan drama

    Exposure review – Alice Englert shines in this interesting, if flawed mystery series

  • Five people sit in a row as they look and smile at each other, the woman in the middle holding a microphone

    The Sopranos cast reunites in New York City: ‘Everyone up here, that’s a family’

May 2024

  • Vicky McClure in pyjamas looking tired in Insomnia.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Insomnia; Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes; Rebus; Trying; The Nevermets – review

  • Ears ringing … Grace (Siân Brooke) and Henry (Alfie Lawless).

    Blue Lights: episode by episode
    Blue Lights recap: series two finale – terrific, beautiful and a wee bit soapy

April 2024

  • Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas holding firearms in front of a Ferrari

    Stream team
    Miami Vice is cheesy and brutally unsubtle – but it remains sexy as hell

  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

  • A still from SBS crime drama Swift Street

    How would you raise $26,000 in 10 days? The rollicking Melbourne crime drama exploring shades of grey

  • Tom Hollander as Truman Capote, seated beside an open fire

    The week in TV: Feud: Truman Capote vs the Swans; Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man; Blue Lights; Dinosaur – review

  • Blue Lights: episode by episode
    Blue Lights recap: series two, episode one – a blistering comeback

  • TV review
    Blue Lights series two review – last year’s breakout police hit is as beautifully tense as ever

  • An t-Eilean: £1m-an-episode drama to bring Outer Hebrides to global audience

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in television: Ripley; This Town; The Assembly; Mammals – review

March 2024

  • Leah Purcell in High Country

    High Country review – Leah Purcell is as engaging as ever in a decent, if familiar crime series

  • A middle-aged white man with trim gray hair and glasses and black collared short-sleeved polo shirt sits with his arms on a yellow Formica table with two red benches facing each other, at a booth in a row of other booths in a restaurant. A jukebox sits alongside the partition between ketchup and napkins.

    An offer he couldn’t refuse: Sopranos diner booth sells for $82,600

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