That book was required reading in a college psychology class I took. The teacher said that Perry Smith (Blake's character) was not a sociopath/psychopath at all, but had other mental problems dealing with passive/aggressiveness. Dick Hickock (Wilson's character) was a true sociopath, though. So Blake's portrayal was pretty accurate.
If you say so, I'm a law & order freak (the old one that's come back), and the 2000 Dragnet with Ed O'Neill. Too bad it didn't last longer. I have watched the older ones and like them as well.
The original Law and Order is immortal, that and SVU are fantastic
D'Onofrio is great, really quirky. He played a great Kingpin in the Netflix Daredevil series.
LOL
The only problem with SVU was that it was quite downbeat, almost unrelentingly so at times. Even the characters admitted getting depressed and the bad impact their work was having on their lives.
All of those are fabulous. But for me, the best cop show ever was Hill Street Blues.
Because of the crimes the show should have been downbeat, if you want rape and abuse to be made into a joke, you can always come to lit, and I'm not referring to just the stories with that remark.
I streamed hill street a few months back. Loved it.
Have you run into the episode where they put the remote-controlled alligator in the sewer while Howard is down there with his team looking for rumored alligators? Or the infamous "disgruntled tuna" episode? And Nick "Dog breath" Belker was always entertaining. The thing I liked about it's like life, a mix of deadly serious with humorous interludes stuck in between.
I watched from beginning to end. Pops and I are going to simo-watch and facetime while we do in the near future.
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