In honor of Father's Day this weekend, we wanted to celebrate 10 of our favorite dads of TV crime. Half are crime-fighters, half are criminals, but each dad leaves an indelible mark (and dirty socks). 1) Jack Bauer of 24 Being a member of his family is like having a giant, flashing neon bullseye painted…
If life doesn’t provide you with good news, you stop waiting for it to arrive. You recalibrate, then you take the news life does provide and consider it good. Call it lowered expectations if you like, but it’s more than that—it’s a survival strategy. Survival is what this week’s episode of Case Histories is all…
Troubling events never seem to happen one at a time. They come in bunches, seemingly unrelated yet perplexingly intertwined if you examine them closely. For Jackson Brodie, that’s certainly true. He doesn’t just spot a dead girl floating in the Firth of Forth, he also witnesses a vicious road rage incident. (This is Scotland, by…
If I were to name my “favorite” authors, the list would be very short and Kate Atkinson would be on it. So it was with some trepidation that I approached this week’s Masterpiece Mystery presentation of Case Histories, based on the first of her Jackson Brodie novels. I needn’t have worried. The screenplay by Ashley…
