If Homicide were Friends, “Bop Gun”—the episode that NBC broadcast as the second-season premiere, but which was…

This episode has always been a personal favorite of mine, because of Adrienne Shelly’s performance as Tanya, the…

Last fall, Frontline had an episode about a 1997 rape and murder case in Virginia, where the police managed to…

The theme running through this episode is the conflict between those who would keep order by strictly upholding the…

Last week, I wrote that, by this point, Homicide had reached a point where the actors had become so assured in their…

I think that  it was around this point, as the clock was running out on Homicide's first season, that the series hit…

This is a kind of  sampler-plate  episode, with almost everyone assigned a subplot of his own to tend while Melissa…

One of the side effects of growing up with the TV on is that you become fascinated by all kinds of actors, actors…

This is a placeholder episode, devoted to tidying up a few plot ends left dangling from previous episodes and…

This is an uneven, often frustrating (and, in some quarters, overpraised) episode, but in a different way than the…

"Night of the Dead Living" (season one, episode 3; original air date: 3/31/1993)

"Ghost of a Chance" (Season one, episode two; first broadcast 2/3/93)

"Gone for Goode" (season 1, episode 1; originally aired 1/31/93)