Homicide

What makes Homicide an above-average true-crime experience is its creator’s eye for intriguing characters. The five-part series ensures that we see the men and women who solved and prosecuted these murders as human beings, people with insecurities, idiosyncrasies, and regrets — not just talking heads.

This series is sadly over-produced and over-directed, the kind of program that undeniably features brilliant, even heroic officers of the law but buries its good intentions in bad decisions.