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Homicide: Life on the Street

1993 · TV series · 45 min episodes · 7 seasons

Created by Paul Attanasio

MysteryDramaCrime

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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  1. PositivelistenallyallDec 3, 2025

    His primary dislike for cable television was the amount of "garbage" it offered, while seemingly ignoring that Netflix also has plenty, if not more.

    > But it doesn't matter... they're all available at once

    I'm sorry but streaming everything is not a panacea. The spigot of worthwhile content is not endless. Ok great you binge-watched the entire season of Stranger Things over two nights. What will you watch tomorrow? And the day after? How much of the show do you actually remember? You lose out on the fun of discussing each individual episode with like-minded people, the wondering about how the next episode will resolve the last episodes drama, maybe watching an episode a second time and catching some additional detail.

    I can assure you that watching great television - Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Larry Sanders Show, Homicide: Life on the Street - one episode per week is vastly superior to binge-watching it, even if it feels inconvenient in the moment. (Of course this is with the convenience of DVR so you can time-shift occasionally)