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Get Millie Black: Millie Season 1, Ep 1
Detective Millie Black has moved back to her native Jamaica after decades in the UK. Haunted by metaphorical ghosts, she begins a search for a missing girl. The show is helmed by Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James. Content warning: violence.
Movie: The Naked City
The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer. If you like a good murder show/podcast, this is the granddaddy of them all. [more inside]
Blue Lights: Blue Lights Season One (full) Season 1, Ep 0
Blue Lights follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers. The city, nominally "post-conflict" still has sectarian divides, paramilitaries running drug operations and conditions which make police work difficult. The Guardian "Don’t sleep on this fantastically tense Belfast cop show". The Spectator "The BBC’s Blue Lights is a near-perfect cop drama"
First shown by the BBC March 2023 and currently available on iPlayer.
Movie: Dragged Across Concrete
Once two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation.
Stranger aka Forest of Secrets [Season] - South Korean Police Purcedural
A prosecutor without empathy and a bold female police are taking a murder case involving unrestrained political corruption. [more inside]
Comrade Detective: The Whole World Is Watching First Watch Season 1, Ep 5
Comrade Detective purports to be a rediscovered buddy cop show from mid-eighties Romania, made as Eastern Bloc propaganda/entertainment. It isn't; it was filmed in Romania in the modern day, with Romanian actors, and then dubbed into English by actors like Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nick Offerman, and occasionally guest stars like Debra Winger and Daniel Craig.
In this episode: Baciu's family notices something unsettling; we hear Dragos's suspicions and learn something new about Stan; the American embassy is hospitable. [more inside]
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