crime show enjoyers, please help me out with some research for college!
i'm making a crime show title sequence for my final major project, but need to do some research first. so if you've got a minute, please let me know what you would expect to see in a crime show title sequence / things you've noticed they often include
any way of doing this is fine — replies, reblogs (with comments or tags), asks, messages, and responses on my google forms thingy are all appreciated. and if possible, please reblog this post to get it out to more people. thanks in advance! :)
EDIT : responses are now closed!
any new comments / reblogs / messages / etc with responses won’t be included in my research
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Pet peeves: category: TV detectives.
OK OK what rEALLY cheeses me off is when a TV detective carries around a backpack all the time and never fucking takes anything out of it or puts anything in it.
When it's just a fucking prop, like, for what reason?
My backpack has a brush, moisturizer, pen, notepad, measuring tape, penknife, leash (for when I come across a stray dog), bus pass, keys, wallet, sunglasses (on sunny days), phone, band-aids, aspirin, binoculars, compass, breath mints, fruit bars, a book.
And believe it or not all of those things have come in handy at one time or another.
And it can expand to hold a goddamn baby elephant.
So what's the point of a detective who never puts anything in his backpack and never takes anything out? He just lugs it around, to show, what? How proletariat he is? Pockets aren't enough for this sleuth, he needs a Hershel pack for all the shit he doesn't have.
Columbo kept all kinds of stuff in his raincoat. Cigars, matches, hard-boiled eggs, salt shaker, gumdrops, dog treats, once an entire fucking Thermos. Miss Marple had lots of handy things in her purse, from hankies to knitting. Father Brown had a purple stole and lock picks in his cassock. Maigret had a tobacco pouch, matches, and pipe in his coat.
But Backpack Detectives don't have so much as a sandwich in a paper bag.
It just irks me. Couldn't the writers come up with something the characters actually used?
(I admit I haven't seen all episodes of Unforgotten and Death in Paradise, so it's possible they used their backpacks and I didn't see it, but in all the episodes I have seen they've never zipped open those suckers even once.)
The other thing that irks me is that Backpack Detectives always carry their pack only over one shoulder.
If you're kneeling down to examine the body or footprints or blood smears, or bending over to squint at the shattered vase or bullet in the coffee table, that pack will slip right off your shoulder. So you have to hold it in place with your other hand. Which means you only have one free hand.
If you do the sensible thing, the thing backpacks are designed for, you have both your arms through the straps, which leaves you with both hands free.
A detective wants both hands free. What if the murdered person's spouse offers a cup of tea while Backpack Detective is picking shards of bone out of the carpet? He doesn't have a free hand.
Screenwriters need to think about this shit more.
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Mark Mattadias Kakepteum
Someone Saw Something - Mark Mattadias Kakepetum
Mark was last seen on August 30, 1994
#unforgotten #unsolved #coldcase #Indigenous #truecrime #sharethispost #missing #Canada #Keewaywin #FirstNation #Ontario #MMIW #MMIMB
Mark Mattadias KakepetumCase Reference: 17-89-94-00397Missing since: August 30, 1994Missing from: Keewaywin First Nation, Ontario, CanadaDate of Birth: January 4, 1956Age at Disappearance: 37 yearsGender: MaleEthnicity: IndigenousEye Color: BrownHair: Black, LongHeight: 5ft 7inWeight: 146 lbsComplexion: DarkPhysical Build: Slender / ThinNotable: Mark has a birth mark on the right side of the…
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crime shows i’ve watched
— every crime show i’ve watched, in alphabetical order! main fandoms are marked with a star
at some point i will finish all the ones i got partway through and then forgot about. maybe
agatha christie’s poirot
⭐️ agatha raisin
⭐️ annika
beyond paradise
broadchurch (s1 only)
brooklyn nine-nine (haven’t watched past s6 ep16 yet)
⭐️ death in paradise
⭐️ father brown
hidden // craith
magpie murders
⭐️ midsomer murders (including s23 & 24; all posts about these will be tagged with #midsomer murders s23 / s24 and #midsomer murders spoilers)
miss marple (bbc)
⭐️ murder in provence
⭐️ only murders in the building
professor t (haven’t finished s2 yet)
⭐️ shakespeare & hathaway
sherlock (bbc) (haven’t watched s4 ep3 yet)
⭐️ silent witness
⭐️ sister boniface mysteries
the bay (haven’t finished s4 yet)
the long call
⭐️ the mallorca files — posts on @the-mallorca-files
trigger point (haven’t watched s2 yet)
unforgotten (haven’t finished s5 yet)
vera (haven’t finished; not sure how much left)
wallander (haven’t finished; not sure how much left)
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I think what... gets me about Cassie's death other than the fact that it was untimely, that she didn't get the happy ending she deserved or that we as viewers have come to expect in television... is that it is real.
People die unhappy all the time. But, that is not what gets me. What gets me is something that ties back to what my mum always told me if I was angry.
Don't leave the house angry. If something happens to either of us, our last words will have been shouting, and that is an awful thing to be left behind with.
That is what gets me. The last time Cassie sees her father, she is angry. He's upset. They don't part on a good note. Cassie tries to make amends by calling him, and leaves a voicemail. And that is the last thing she does. They never get to make things right in person.
She never hears the words of forgiveness spoken at her bedside. Her father never gets to hear the words of understanding and forgiveness directly from her either.
Yes, there is a voicemail. But it is not a personal resolution.
And that just. Gets me. They parted on a bad note, and that was largely all they got.
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