Movie time is the best time for all of us when it comes to entertainment. It relaxes you, detaches you from reality for a while, and keeps your mind occupied and intrigued. If you like watching something exhilarating like crime shows, you will find this list quite useful. We all have those moments when we can’t seem to decide what we want to watch. It will help you not waste time as you surf through the stations to get what you want to watch.
Breaking Bad
Walt, a chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with an incurable cancer stage 3. He is given two years to live. He embarks on a strategy to leave his family secure financially. He figures he has nothing to lose, and he starts using his knowledge in chemistry to manufacture and sell methamphetamine. He procures help from one of his former students. This series touches on so many different aspects of our ordinary lives. A man is pushed to the edge by his failing health. He loves his family so much that he will go to any length to provide them with a good life. It touches on the effects of crime on marriage, the task of bringing up a disabed child and the effects that a chronic disease like cancer will have on a family. The show has five seasons and will keep you intrigued all along.
Money Heist
A criminal mastermind known as the Professor has a plan to carry out a robbery from the Royal Mint of Spain. He plans to carry out a heist whereby they print new bills to make them untraceable. He procures the aid of 8 people who have a background of crime to carry out the most elaborate plan. The show is quite thrilling and captivating, and the theme song is a catchy one. This show will have you watching episode after episode of the three seasons already released, and you will keep checking TV scorecards to know if the new season has been released. The series also explores the way money will corrupt the morals of even the well-meaning people. The investigating agent, Rachel, surprises us all with the turn of events in her life. The creativity of naming characters after significant cities is an exciting aspect of the series.
Narcos
It is a crime series that explores the origin of the modern drug war going back to when the drug trafficking world was established. Back in the day, the trafficking world was a disorganized mess of independent growers and dealers. This saw the rise of the Guadalajara cartel with Felix Gallardo at the helm. He unites the traffickers and other key players in the market to create an empire. A DEA agent from America finds out his role is not as easy as he thought it would be as he learns the hard way not to mess with the drug cartels. It premiered in 2018 and has two seasons out already.
Peaky Blinders
It is an English crime show that follows the story of a gangster family. Its storyline goes back to the year 1919 after World War 1. Thomas Shelby and his brothers return to Birmingham after serving in the British Army in WW1. They take control of Birmingham city, making a name for themselves as the Peaky Blinders gang. Shelby’s ambitions go beyond Birmingham’s city, and he will not let anyone get in his way. The Shelbys establish themselves as bookmakers, racketeers, and gangsters. The show premiered in 2013 and has five seasons already.
Criminal Minds
This show follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the F.B.I. as a behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.). Using scientific methods, they analyze criminals’ behavioral patterns and profiling evidence to solve a crime and apprehend its perpetrators. Profiling includes coming up with characteristics of the subject known as “Unsub” using the evidence from the case. Matching information they have from historic precedents and psychological analyses to solve their cases. Due to the demanding nature of their job, not many B.A.U. members have been able to maintain a happy and stable family. The show premiered in 2005 and already has 15 seasons.
Crime series will have you feeling like a super detective and yelling advice at the characters on your TV on what they should or shouldn’t do. They are so captivating that they can even help you stay at home occupied throughout. Some of them are based on real-life events and will keep you on the edge of your seat as you wait to see what will happen. Enjoy the above-listed series in no particular order.
