Underplayed Gems

Real Detective (2016)

Real Detective poster
Genre
drama, documentary, crime
Country
Canada
Length
2 seasons, 16 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Each episode of this anthology series follows a different detective as they recount a real murder case they worked. The show mixes interviews with the actual detectives and dramatized reenactments of the crime and investigation.

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What happens

Real Detective is a Canadian production, police docudrama (2016–2017) broadcast by Netflix. The anthology series tells a different US true crime murder each episode, through the detective(s) that worked the particular case in a documentary style, alongside a drama re-enactment of the events. Following a single season on Netflix, the show continued as a CBC Television series titled The Detectives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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