You can instantly tell which country every procedural is from based on how they solve the crime: US: Bring in Incredibly Hot Forensics Team UK: Fetch the CCTV India: Break the locked door
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Also India: slap the suspect
aug 30, 2025, 2:42 pm • 9 0 • view
And the victim and the friends of both the suspect and victim
aug 30, 2025, 8:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Sicily: Swim in the sea, have some fish for lunch and then knock on a Nonna’s door.
aug 30, 2025, 3:16 pm • 12 0 • view
And Nonna's door is answered by the well-endowed and scantily-clad granddaughter. She might be the next sexy victim. Also, why are all the apartments decorated like the 1890s exploded in there, no matter the age of the occupant?
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly
aug 30, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
So much food I'm surprised they can walk
aug 30, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Germany: Drive around in the rain
aug 30, 2025, 3:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Slightly off topic. Wife watches all those British murder shows, and I can't stop thinking of this Clash lyric: "Yankee detectives are always on the TV Those killers in America work seven days a week" Oh yeah? Check your own quaint market towns, pal. It's a friggin bloodbath out there.
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 5 0 • view
CID's Daya has had a much bigger cultural impact than anyone could have anticipated.
aug 30, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Scandinavia: very divorced new cop in town spends 6 episodes revisiting their childhood traumas while wearing a woolly jumper and smoking/drinking a lot of
aug 30, 2025, 2:56 pm • 23 0 • view
Haha! I really want to like Scandi mystery, but I always wonder why the character bothered to return!
aug 30, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
China : a shouting argument in some boss's room until they come up with some deal anpout how to pursue the case further.
aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
I am not certain that British tv police interrogations are always in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act though (partly for dramatic reasons shaped by expectations from US cop shows)
aug 30, 2025, 2:38 pm • 14 0 • view
Ha, don’t get me started on that! TBF many have now woken up to the fact that suspects should have a lawyer present when being interviewed. However they haven’t realised that the lawyer is supposed to give their client advice, not sit there in total silence!
aug 30, 2025, 2:53 pm • 12 0 • view
Oh, they have, the lawyer pretends to whisper into their ear every so often Can't give them dialogue, you have to pay the actors more
aug 30, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Detective: Did you shoot Jeremy? Solicitor: You don't have to answer that question. Suspect: It's not my fault. I had to shoot Jeremy because he stole my cocaine.
aug 30, 2025, 3:22 pm • 10 0 • view
Scandinavian:
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 pm • 11 1 • view
Incredibly Hot Forensics Team watches the CCTV footage of the location, breaks down the locked door to gain access, and finds: Another Incredibly Hot Forensics Team. Now what?
aug 30, 2025, 5:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Switzerland - Fill out paperwork for 30 minutes of the episode
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 11 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
So true. AI could write most UK procedurals, just add your favorite quick witted pensioner or clergyman PI and scene!
aug 30, 2025, 3:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Chicago: torture
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Canada: German Shepherd to the rescue!
aug 30, 2025, 2:37 pm • 49 0 • view
Look, Hobo is a better police officer than everyone else on the force...AND HE ISN'T EVEN A COP! He just innately knows where kidnappers, smugglers, and crooked landlords are.
aug 30, 2025, 2:49 pm • 18 0 • view
It's not just Hobo, but Rex is a better cop than Hudson, and Chase is always on the case, which is more than can be said about the rest of the patrolling paws.
aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 11 0 • view
We need more Inspector Rex..😃
aug 31, 2025, 9:13 am • 1 0 • view
Y'all have the Murdoch Mysteries too. You will always have the Murdoch Mysteries, forever, and ever.
aug 31, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Deep cut for Canadians of a certain age. 💗
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Not even. Here's a timeline of Canada's obsession with crimefighting dogs on television: The Littlest Hobo from 1963-1965 and 1979-1985 (and aired forever after that); Due South from 1994-1999; Paw Patrol from 2013-Present; Hudson & Rex from 2019-Present. 1/2
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 pm • 7 0 • view
And those are just the shows I know. There are probably a million more I don't know.
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Oh god, you're absolutely right. There was also that undercover crime-fighting dog hiding in suburbia show in the 90s that used to run late on YTV. I mean hell, I think we contributed to Dog City. We as a nation clearly have an obsession
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Ireland: chat through the list of suspects over pint. (Also applies to Inspector Morse).
aug 30, 2025, 2:41 pm • 24 0 • view
And all of them drink out of empty coffee cups
aug 30, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Canada- argue procedure in the patrol vehicle
aug 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
LOL. Just started watching a Brit show where the police hire a deaf woman to lipread from the CCTV.
aug 30, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
Brazil: Beach shots with pensive detective. Japan: Flashback to suspect committing the crime changing as the case gets closer to being solved. Australia: The killer is an axe.
aug 30, 2025, 2:46 pm • 14 0 • view
china: it was the japanese guy
aug 30, 2025, 2:43 pm • 34 0 • view
south korea: it was the japanese guy
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japan: it was the japanese guy
aug 30, 2025, 2:44 pm • 33 0 • view
Alternative Canada: Bring in borderline incompetent but sorta cute Newfoundland PI who loves pratfalls and exploding cars yet still solves the murder because Allan Hawco needs the work.
aug 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Russia: ask Putin, who did it and how they should be punished
aug 30, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The way you talk about Indian TV and movies and all the wild shit that happens there makes me want to start consuming more Indian media. I have a huge backlog of movies to go through, gotta get to that
aug 30, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
India has about 7 to 8 medium to big movie industries . It has got 2 golden globe nominees in the last 3 years . If india actually puts together the best 10 across 6 or 7 langauges . They would have like 3/5 best international movies every year
aug 30, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
My friend based on what limited Indian cinema I've seen (RRR being the most recent), none of what you said is surprising.
aug 30, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Imagine each of those industries make 2 or 3 gems a year on average . That is 15 great movies at least . Western film festivals and critics will come across 2 or 3 at most but every decent European movie doesn't escape the European film festival circuit
aug 30, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
This whole comment thread is A+
aug 30, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
French: Comment on how beautiful the murder victim must have been. I’m lookin’ at you, Spiral! I love ya, but I’m lookin’ at ya.
aug 30, 2025, 2:37 pm • 11 0 • view
But to be serious, a Canadian police procedural is similar to a British procedural in terms of attitude, except they spend most of their time bitching about the Americans, and all crimes are either solved through Holmesian deductions or the most underhanded shady tactics possible.
aug 30, 2025, 3:00 pm • 13 0 • view
The longest running police procedural in Canada is a period dramedy that borders on steampunk where a Toronto detective teams up with Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, and other historical figures while also inventing the polygraph, fax machines, microwaves, and scrabble.
aug 30, 2025, 3:02 pm • 25 0 • view
Wait...wait...what?
aug 30, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Murdoch Mysteries just greenlit its 19th season. It's a police procedural set in late 1800s/early 1900s Toronto and it is an absolute anachronism stew. Tesla's death ray is the murder weapon of the season 1 finale. The main character continually invents the most random bullshit decades early.
aug 30, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Okay, I’ve heard of the show, but I didn’t know they were Forrest Gumping their way through history like that. Thanks!
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It is, honestly, delightful. The cast is full of Canadian comedians. The most hated Prime Minister in recent history (Harper) cameoed in one episode because he's also a hockey historian. Canadian actors rotate through it.
aug 30, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
murdoch murders is epic
aug 30, 2025, 3:02 pm • 13 0 • view
At this point its our main cultural export. At 18 seasons and still going it's inevitably going to have to deal with hitting WWI in a world where Tesla invented a portable death ray and a local nerd invented a functional superhero suit, including a helicopter backpack.
aug 30, 2025, 3:05 pm • 18 0 • view
France: Have a cigarette
aug 30, 2025, 2:44 pm • 23 0 • view
only French Mystery I seen has been HPI break into the apartment where the person was killed so you and your kids have a place to stay for the night
aug 30, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Sadly, only the Indian procedural is remotely representative of real life. 😉
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 3 0 • view
My favorite recent mystery is Death in Paradise the third season started with the lead detective being killed so they have to get a new lead detective who had to figure out how the old one was killed in full view of a group of people
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Love that show. Got roped in when I saw one of the regulars was the guy who played the Cat on Red Dwarf. Also it's had at least two Doctors in guest roles, and one Doctor's son.
aug 31, 2025, 8:02 am • 2 1 • view
Nordic countries: Let's all sit around looking morose until we solve the case by sheer force of ennui.
aug 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
My parents love New Zealand ones. It feels like nearly everyone is quirky dude detective who is good at his job and female detective who's had enough of his shit.
aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
it is unreal how many murderers on Indian TV have got away with it by neatly assembling all the evidence into files in one room and telling everyone who enters the house that they can't go in there
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 pm • 269 7 • view
Evidence of crime is probably the only time putting all eggs in one basket is a legitimate strategy. I figure any one piece of evidence is enough to earn the scrutiny that would reveal the rest, so having it all in one (unlikely) spot at least means they need to look at that one spot.
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
What I envy is the abundance of rooms
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 14 0 • view
There has never been an Indian serial killer on TV who didnt have a meticulously maintained daily diary where they recorded every crime since childhood
aug 30, 2025, 2:51 pm • 229 2 • view
Low key, this sounds perfect for a video game as players usually find themselves reading small entries throughout the game
aug 30, 2025, 3:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Preemptively doing the paperwork for law enforcement, how thoughtful
aug 30, 2025, 4:08 pm • 3 0 • view
I'd say "no American serial killer would do that" but Dexter kept the blood of every victim in a box behind his AC unit and Hannibal Lecter kept serving up his latest victims to local cops and FBI agents.
aug 30, 2025, 2:56 pm • 34 0 • view
You are in the 90s lol. There have been many indian thrillers with very original stories
aug 30, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
In Canada they just ask the suspect if they did it and suspect says "yeah so you got me".
aug 30, 2025, 2:49 pm • 16 0 • view
UK: Do a door-to-door
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Sweden: stare at bleak seascape & brood
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 86 0 • view
So much brooding.
aug 30, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Wales: stare at bleak seascape and brood longer than expected in the Welsh language version, because you've communicated the emotional meaning of the scene with a word and a nod and you have to fill up the run time somehow.
aug 30, 2025, 2:41 pm • 51 0 • view
I believe Finland also subscribes to the "stare at precipitation and brood" method.
aug 30, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
(There is one exception to this because it was filmed properly bilingually, but it's still pretty bleak.)
aug 30, 2025, 2:42 pm • 16 0 • view
Bilingual nodding?
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
More that it was filmed in a natural mixture of mostly Welsh with some English (reflecting how Welsh speakers in a mostly Anglophone area navigate languages), rather than having English and Welsh scenes filmed seperately and being spliced into English, Welsh, and bilingual versions.
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
If you're doing the latter, the scenes all have to be roughly the same length no matter if the amount of dialogue in one language ends up being much less than the other!
aug 30, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Hinterland/Y Gwll? I loved that even if I have zero Welsh
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 pm • 8 0 • view
Hinterland/Y Gwyll (which I also love) is the one where the showmakers first noticed this effect -- the bilingual one which has full-on code switching in a way most S4C crime drama doesn't is 'Bang', set in Port Talbot.
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 15 0 • view
(The second season has a scene that's probably one of the most shocking -- despite all the violence happening offscreen -- ever shown on Welsh tv, as a heads up if you go looking for it.)
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 7 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 2:38 pm • 6 1 • view
while having a cup of coffee.
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