Crime Drama

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga Review — Free Samples, Then You Pay

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  Malcolm Spellman never wrote an episode of Snowfall. FX handed him the spinoff anyway, and what he came back with is not a tour of familiar streets. The Drop: A Snowfall Saga opens in 1990, four years after the parent show signed off, and it keeps South Los Angeles while swapping out the product. … Read more

Lanterns — HBO’s Green Lantern Show Is at War With Itself

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  Lanterns opens the way a prestige crime drama opens: on the aftermath of a shooting in Rushville, a small farm town in Nebraska, the kind of place where nothing is supposed to happen. Two investigators walk the scene. Then one of them, Hal Jordan, a Green Lantern, says the killer was probably not human. … Read more