S01.E07: Detective

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Willis gets a new partner. Lana gets a new partner. The show gets a new theme song. 

Premiere Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024     Hulu     

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I was not expecting Lana from 12 years ago to look exactly the same. Is she older than she seems, or is this cause it's fiction and TV shows play fast and loose with timelines and aging? See also when the police chief conspiciously avoided actually naming what year it was 12 years ago. (On the other hand, Det Carey and/or the actor got a bit of aging makeup.)

Oh nice, a new title sequence for the show within a show! What show are they referencing this time? Gotta be some basic cable cop show, right?* Also, what's with the lighting change? Now instead of cold blue, it's warm yellow. Is that specifically Burn Notice?

I actually am really enjoying all the basic police procedural stuff that happened in this episode. Turner and Wu chasing down former Det Carey, Green and Lee finding the bar owner and chasing him down too, and smaller stuff like noticing the cannoli bakery or the biker bar matchbooks.

LMAO at Turner just handing his badge over to Willis and somehow that actually makes Willis a real detective for the purposes of the inner show.

* edit: the Reddit discussion thread said it's True Detective. Which is very fitting considering the episode title. Sorry, I've never watched True Detective.

Edited Friday at 06:12 AM by arc