So Much Crime/Killers.

Cause of Death is brilliant and my dad was coroner's officer so I know now what he did!
Love all Scandi crimes! Enthralling! Watched Honour again this week and still horrified me !

Lupatria

i love midsomer murders and watch them again and again - sometimes firgetting who dunnit!
mind you vera, morse, lewis, endeavour, miss marple (joan hickson) and poirot are other programmes i'll watch time after time too.

But these are not so ‘dark’ as ‘Killer At The Crime Scene’ or similar.

They are more ‘entertainment’ even though there are murders involved.

I suppose the difference is that KATCS and similar are very much ‘real life’.

There's so little that we enjoy watching on "regular" TV now, we rely on box sets and other re-runs on our smart TV. Almost everything we watch seems to be a crime or a thriller, though I don't like the very gory ones or anyting verging on porn. We were watching The Sinner on Netflix but towards the end it seems to be veering in the direction of a blue movie so we've given up on it.
We did enjoy Slow Horses on Apple TV but it isn't worth paying when there is not much else on there that we enjoy.

I've more or less stopped enjoying crime series, although The Turkish Detective appealed for the location and the older detective Ikmen.
There's enough horror in the world without adding to it all the time.
I enjoy nature and travel programmes but my guilty is Kirsty and Phil's property porn.

I wouldn’t dream of banning my DH from watching anything BOZ. He’s his own person. I could just imagine his face if I said right you are banned! He would think that I had lost the plot. We watch crime progs we also watch comedy’s variety of things on the tele. Nothing is banned in our house

All my life, the debate has been going on, as to whether fictional crime, whether in books, on TV, films or the stage increases the amount of crimes committed in real life, or accelerates the level of viciousness.

Some people hold that it does (both amongst the general public, and amongst those who work in the police, prision service and amongst lawyers, doctors etc.)

Others hold that fictional crime provides a safety valve of some sort. Much the same sort of discussion has been, and still is, carried on regarding ponography.

As far as I know, no final judgement on the subject has been reached.

Personally, I find it distressing that whereas classic writers of crime fiction, such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers made it clear that murder was wrong, a good many modern writers (not all, though) seem more interested in the criminal's motivation than in anyone solving the crime, and never seem to make any clear moral judgement, or lead the reader to do so.

If once we accept that something we know to be wrong, such as murder or child abuse, is an acceptable topic for entertainment, are we not to a certain extent condoning it?

Obviously, both the legal and medical professions research and publish works on crimes. This is a completely different matter, and serious plays or films can be a means to alerting the general public to very distressing sides of human behaviour that have far-reaching consequences for everyone involved, but crime, purely and simply as entertainment, has always struck me as morally dubious.

Kim19

I'm get another who has opted out of all violent and gory viewing. I've happily stumbled across a series called The Gilmore girls on itvx. The intensity of love manifested there in all shapes and sizes is delighting me. I would heartily recommend giving it a try. 👍

Love the Gilmore Girls, must have watched every episode more than once by now. Always dismayed that when I've recommended it to others they haven't enjoyed it at all.

I only watch sport on TV but used to read crime and thrillers all the time. There are only a few crime authors I now read and have switched to middle grade and cosy crime for most of my reading. Even the synopsis for the popular crime series on Amazon sound the same. Female, alone, in danger, very soon to be discovered dead!

Oh Romola, I love Phil and Kirsty.
I like a crime thriller on television and in books. In most public libraries, there is large section devoted to this, so it's a popular obsession.
I don't enjoy " reality " television ( other than houses, obviously). My father referred to such as " amateur night" and thought that they were frequent because they were cheap to make.

Each to their own, enough horror and death on the news! I like to know what's going on in the world, but down time has to be uplifting and relaxing!

BlueBelle

I love watching crime programmes ( both real and drama) I think it’s my urge to try and solve the crime and psychologically understand what’s going on in the criminals head I enjoy trying to solve true crime too and see how the system and the criminals brain works After I finished Enid Blyton I found Agatha Christy

Ban your husband from watching his programmes, good grief Boz do you have that much power over your partner

Ditto with all you’ve said!

I agree op.
Even some online newspapers seem to enjoy having headlines about crime, when no other top story seems to be alarming enough for them.
Not meaning the current riots.

Galaxy

It's odd isnt it I listen to true crime podcasts all the time but I found the singing detective creepy in the extreme.

So did I! I too like the true crimes on tv, my particular favourite is Homicide Hunter!

Lupatria

i love midsomer murders and watch them again and again - sometimes firgetting who dunnit!
mind you vera, morse, lewis, endeavour, miss marple (joan hickson) and poirot are other programmes i'll watch time after time too.

That’s a good list, Lupatria, although I don’t like the whimsical series like Midsomer Murders, but British tv crime hit the heights for me with Line of Duty and Happy Valley.

Also, really enjoyed “Kin”, recently (Irish crime drama).