Homicide: Life on the Street

1993

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  • 7
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  • 1
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Released: 31 January 1993 Ended
Producted By: NBC Studios
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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Drama, Crime, Mystery

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Homicide: Life on the Street Audience Reviews

PodBill Just what I expected
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
raayate I ORDERED THE ENTIRE SERIES IN NOVEMBER AFTER LOOKING HIGH AND LOW FOR THE SHOW AND FINALLY FOUND IT ON AMAZON. I ENJOYED HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET WHEN IT WAS ON TELEVISION BUT COMPLETELY ENJOYED IT FROM NOVEMBER THRU TODAY - JANUARY 2018! THESE WERE SOME OF THE BEST ACTORS IN THE BUSINESS AND I FELT EACH WERE PART OF MY FAMILY DURING MY VIEWINGS. REALIZING THAT I HAD MISSED SEVERAL SHOWS WAS A EXTRA TREAT BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO CAPTURE ALL OF THE MISSING LINKS. THE WRITERS DID A SUPREME JOB BY PULLING ALL OF THE CHARACTERS TOGETHER IN THE MOVIE VERSION. THE MOVIE WAS THE BONUS DVD INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE. AND THE WAY THEY BROUGHT IN THE TWO DETECTIVES WHO DIED BY SUICIDE AND IN THE LINE OF DUTY WAS OUTSTANDING AND BROUGHT REAL CLOSURE TO THE SERIES.THERE WILL NEVER BE A SHOW LIKE HOMICIDE AND I MIGHT ADD NONE OF THE CURRENT CRIME SHOWS WILL EVERY MEET THE LEVEL OF ENTERTAINMENT THAT HOMICIDE PROVIDE. THE BEST TO EACH AND EVERYONE INVOLVED AND KEEP UP THE OUTSTANDING WORK!
TheBlueHairedLawyer Homicide differs from most crime shows out there because it doesn't conform to the usual drama that most others in the genre carry. There are no high-speed chases, no shock value love affairs, no extended action scenes, no nerdy book and film trivia scattered in for no reason. Homicide is as close to reality as fiction can get. The characters, not played by the usual glamorous celebrities, look and act like ordinary working joes dedicated to their grim job, "speaking for the dead" as they put it. And viewers connect with the characters, whether it's Giardello's speeches, Munch's cynical but well-placed comments, or Pembleton juggling work and family all at once. The show might've been dark, but it worked extremely well.Around Season 6, it began to decline noticeably. Kay Howard, the "woman doing a man's job", whom viewers come to admire, is out of the picture, replaced by two new detectives who have supermodel looks but nothing outstanding or memorable about them. Brodie, the geeky but ambitious young videographer, is sent away just as he starts to become part of the Homicide "family". Pembleton and Kellerman, major characters, resign and are replaced by Gharty, a watery-eyed, often-drunk, middle-aged detective who mostly just mopes around and makes passes at younger women. Munch, once a sardonic jerk but a great detective and a surprisingly kind person and great friend when he wants to be, becomes lazy, a gossip, overly crass and annoying and is hardly ever in Season 7 anymore, spending all his time working the Waterfront Bar with Billie Lou, an eccentric barmaid who looks more like his daughter than his girlfriend. Their relationship, which is supposed to appear comical and cute, just comes off as extremely creepy, as they frequently discuss their sex life in front of other characters. Watching them carry on that way just makes me cringe. It looks so weird! Billie Lou isn't exactly devoted either, as she often flirts with Gharty (Gharty is even older than Munch). The FBI arrives in later seasons, expanding the usual small Baltimore homicide unit unnecessarily and throwing in extra drama. Bayliss becomes a "zen detective" and starts reciting proverbs and claims to be bisexual, again throwing more drama into the mix. The trademark camera angles and 16mm film look of grainy browns and grays change to an unoriginal appearance with bright blue paint and a renovated office.The good thing about Homicide is that the first five seasons are something you can watch over and over again, while still being impressed every time. This show isn't afraid to leave questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved, just like real-life. What drove Crosetti to suicide? Did Munch turn vigilante and shoot Gordon Pratt in the night? Who killed Adena Watson? What makes Homicide unique is that sometimes, things aren't easy, things aren't cheerful, but hope still prevails even in the darkest times, and this show does an excellent job at portraying that. Personally I like it far more than The Wire or Law & Order, and I was really sad to see it go when it did, although, with the direction it was going, maybe it's for the best that it still got to die with dignity.
Sunshine4121960 Thanks for the updates on the real story behind the victim. Because it had no closure on the child's killer, only the suspects, I had my suspicious who might have done it. Which was the last suspect at the end. In the three men Adriena. Now that I know about the episode, of the book that were explained to from by the episode, and not wondering what's missing,I don't have to figure out who might have molested this little girl. I understand Bayliss wanted to closed the Deanna Watson's case so he can prove something to his Lt. That he can handle it by working on it as a primary for the case. It can be hard, not giving up on it to the matter is solved. But the story in the book,is a true story,and they haven't found the real killer yet either.
xredgarnetx HOMICIDE ran six seasons in the 1990s, documenting the solving of violent crime cases in Baltimore, and had a real who's who of a cast, including Andre Braugher, Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty and Richard Belzer. I am not clear on the show's relationship to LAW & ORDER, but characters kept crossing over for guest spots between the two. One character, Belzer's quirky Munch, eventually moved over to the L& O spin off, "Special Victims Unit." HOMICICDE was beautifully shot in one of the nation's grittiest, most colorful and crime-ridden cities, and the characters were for the most part low-key and believable within the limitations of the scripts, which unfortunately were never up to L&O quality. Worth a watch when you can't find an L&O or NYPD BLUE episode on.