by Les Chappell
Prime Suspect
Series 3, Parts 1 & 2
Original airdates: Dec. 15 and 16, 1992
When I started doing this project to review the entire run of Prime Suspect, one of my major objectives was to understand the series’ impact on other cop shows. And after three installments, it’s impossible not to see its fingerprints on the two decades worth of police procedurals, its commitment to the realism and mechanics of an investigation offering an alternative to the more populist, cowboy style of poolice work. The recently concluded The Closer has been the most frequent comparison made with both shows having a tough female investigator at the center of the show, but most any show that has such a character owes something to the force with which Jane Tennison puts herself at the center of an investigation. It’s also easy to see its fingerprints on David…
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