The excellent and underappreciated crime drama series is finally making its streaming debut in the US on Peacock and deserves to reach a wide audience
There is television before Homicide: Life on the Street and there is television after Homicide: Life on the Street.
Simon’s book gave the show’s writers plenty of characters and incidents on which to base episodes, but it also gave them something else, something not really seen in cop shows up to that point: a philosophy. This is immediately evident in the very first episode, via two small, but key moments. Uber-cynical, darkly funny, highly literate: all qualities that made Homicide: Life on the Street stand out from the pack, but it wasn’t merely some arch piece of genre deconstruction, they should know that never was it better than when staring straight into the tragic heart of its premise. Ask any fan of the series to name their favorite episode and nine times out of 10 they’ll give the same answer: Three Men and Adena.
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