Homicide: Life On The Street: “Bop Gun”
If Homicide were Friends, “Bop Gun”—the episode that NBC broadcast as the second-season premiere, but which was…
Homicide: Life On The Street
Homicide: Life On The Street: “A Many Splendored Thing”
This episode has always been a personal favorite of mine, because of Adrienne Shelly’s performance as Tanya, the…
Homicide: Life On The Street: “Black And Blue”
Last fall, Frontline had an episode about a 1997 rape and murder case in Virginia, where the police managed to extract…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "See No Evil"
The theme running through this episode is the conflict between those who would keep order by strictly upholding the…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
Last week, I wrote that, by this point, Homicide had reached a point where the actors had become so assured in their…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "And The Rocket's Dead Glare"
I think that it was around this point, as the clock was running out on Homicide's first season, that the series hit…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "A Dog And Pony Show"
This is a kind of sampler-plate episode, with almost everyone assigned a subplot of his own to tend while Melissa Leo…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "Three Men And Adena"
One of the side effects of growing up with the TV on is that you become fascinated by all kinds of actors, actors who…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "A Shot In The Dark"
This is a placeholder episode, devoted to tidying up a few plot ends left dangling from previous episodes and setting…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "Son Of A Gun"
This is an uneven, often frustrating (and, in some quarters, overpraised) episode, but in a different way than the…
Homicide: Life On The Street: "Night Of The Dead Living"
"Night of the Dead Living" (season one, episode 3; original air date: 3/31/1993)
Homicide: Life On The Street: "Ghost Of A Chance"
"Ghost of a Chance" (Season one, episode two; first broadcast 2/3/93)
Homicide: Life On The Street: "Gone For Goode"
"Gone for Goode" (season 1, episode 1; originally aired 1/31/93)