mystery
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2020s
The Undoing (2020)
Byte-Sized Overview The Undoing is a glossy, nasty little Upper East Side melodrama dressed as a murder mystery. Nicole Kidman…
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1960s
Checkmate (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Checkmate (1960) is a glossy American detective drama with a rather appealing premise for anyone who likes their…
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2000s
Waking the Dead (2000)
Byte-Sized Overview Waking the Dead is the sort of BBC crime drama that politely pretends to be a procedural, then…
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1960s
Maigret (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Maigret is the BBC’s black-and-white take on Georges Simenon’s famously patient Parisian detective, with Rupert Davies as Commissaire…
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1950s
The Detectives (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview The Detectives is the lean, hard-boiled American crime drama that put Robert Taylor in charge of a plainclothes…
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2010s
Mindhunter (2017)
Byte-Sized Overview Mindhunter is a chilly, meticulously observed crime drama set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the…
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1990s
Jonathan Creek (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview Jonathan Creek is a British mystery-comedy built around an appealingly odd central idea: a man who designs stage…
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2000s
Lie to Me (2009)
Byte-Sized Overview Lie to Me is the sort of network drama that arrives with a premise so neat you can…
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1980s
Inspector Morse (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Inspector Morse is the sort of British detective drama that makes murder feel almost over-refined. Set in Oxford,…
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2020s
Paradise (2025)
Byte-Sized Overview Paradise is a glossy, paranoid political thriller set in a seemingly pristine underground community after the end of…
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1990s
Midsomer Murders (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview Midsomer Murders is the sort of crime drama that makes the English countryside look like a place where…
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2010s
Unforgotten (2015)
Byte-Sized Overview Unforgotten is a British cold-case crime drama with a deceptively tidy premise: a team of detectives reopens an…
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