*Cold SPOILERS*
This show takes place in a seldom used city in TV shows such as Philadelphia, where the Cold Case Unit of the Philadelphia PD tackles a case each episode.
Being a Cold Case unit, the cases take place in the past, whether recent or remote; they solved cases that range from a few months ago (August 2007) to 88 years ago (May 1919).
The main character is Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), who until Season 3 was the lone girl in the cast. She seems to have a knack for this kind of cases, and she moved to this unit from Homicide. The other members of the unit are John Stillman (John Finn), who's like a father to Lilly, her partner Scotty Valens (Daniel Pino), with whom she forms a winning squad, Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford) who can make suspects and witnesses chirp out whatever they may try to hide, new addition to the team Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms) and Will Jeffries (Thom Barry), who's been in the PD for enough time to know where all the bodies are buried.
Together each week they reopen a case (and sometimes more than one) and try to find out the truth, by interviewing anyone involved in the case and studying the evidence.
Whenever a suspect or a witness begins to talk, we see a flashback scene that is filmed with footage of the year of the crime, in the style of the time, and with well-known music of the time to comment it.
To tie the flashback scenes well with the contemporary part of the show, whenever a character related to the murder is introduced there is a brief flash showing him/her as how he/she looked like when the murder was committed.
At the end, a ballad from the year of the crime plays while the murderer is arrested - with a flashback showing the younger self arrested -, the reactions of the people involved in the case, both the witnesses and the cops, and one of them 'seeing' the victim for a brief second.
'Cold Case' is probably the most engaging crime drama in years, bar none, and the only one I make an effort never to miss.
Watch it, and you'll understand why.
Cold Case: 10/10.
This show takes place in a seldom used city in TV shows such as Philadelphia, where the Cold Case Unit of the Philadelphia PD tackles a case each episode.
Being a Cold Case unit, the cases take place in the past, whether recent or remote; they solved cases that range from a few months ago (August 2007) to 88 years ago (May 1919).
The main character is Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), who until Season 3 was the lone girl in the cast. She seems to have a knack for this kind of cases, and she moved to this unit from Homicide. The other members of the unit are John Stillman (John Finn), who's like a father to Lilly, her partner Scotty Valens (Daniel Pino), with whom she forms a winning squad, Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford) who can make suspects and witnesses chirp out whatever they may try to hide, new addition to the team Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms) and Will Jeffries (Thom Barry), who's been in the PD for enough time to know where all the bodies are buried.
Together each week they reopen a case (and sometimes more than one) and try to find out the truth, by interviewing anyone involved in the case and studying the evidence.
Whenever a suspect or a witness begins to talk, we see a flashback scene that is filmed with footage of the year of the crime, in the style of the time, and with well-known music of the time to comment it.
To tie the flashback scenes well with the contemporary part of the show, whenever a character related to the murder is introduced there is a brief flash showing him/her as how he/she looked like when the murder was committed.
At the end, a ballad from the year of the crime plays while the murderer is arrested - with a flashback showing the younger self arrested -, the reactions of the people involved in the case, both the witnesses and the cops, and one of them 'seeing' the victim for a brief second.
'Cold Case' is probably the most engaging crime drama in years, bar none, and the only one I make an effort never to miss.
Watch it, and you'll understand why.
Cold Case: 10/10.