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I have now watched every episode of Homicide Life on the Street and it certainly is a great and satisfying show. Series six is the weakest of the seasons with the newer characters not as good as the classic characters. It is however still worth watching if you've enjoyed the other seasons as it still has some good episodes and the newer cast are still good enough, just not as memorable as the classic cast. Highlights include a two parter where Kellerman returns and the final episode is strong and worth seeing. Munch is still excellent and given alot more screen time than he ever seems to get on Law and Order:SVU. Bayliss has an interesting arc throughout this season with his ideas, feelings and world view changing throughout. Meldrick has some tensions with a new partner and Giadello has his FBI son joining the Homicide squad. It's probabaly good the show finished at this point, but I'll miss this show and the characters and will almost certainly watch alot of it again some day.
Initially disappointing (what, yet another attractive woman joins the squad?) Series 6 soon settles down into a satisfying rhythm, with many top-notch episodes. Regulars Tim Bayliss, John Munch and Meldrick Lewis are still present, and Lewis in particular gets more airtime than in any previous series (no bad thing). New detectives Rene Shepperd and Mike Giardello are rather awkward at first, but by the final curtain call we are as sad to say goodbye to them as the rest of the cast. Yes, there are a few duff episodes - some of the early ones (featuring identical twins, a missing best-selling thriller writer) are more like the sort of crimes that would given to Lt Columbo rather than our cynical Homicide Dept. But by episode 8, and with the reappearance of Mike Kellermen, the plots have taken a turn for the better, and some of the later episodes are as gritty as any in previous years. All in all, a fitting final season to a superb TV series.
Homicide is the take-off to a new level for police series. Yes, NYPDblue and Hill Street Blues are ok. But with Homicide and later The Wire we have a new starting point. It's like The Band's music. There's everything before and everything after.
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Even better than I remembered it from the 1990s
I first watched Homicide Life On The Streets when Channel 4 broadcast it in the UK in the 1990s. It disappeared without warning and without trace, but I became aware of it again... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Brian Bollen
Sad end to a great series
At the end of Season 5 it all went a bit gung ho and Hollywood and I feared the worst for season 6. I was right to be worried, everything becomes very thin with weaker characters... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Daphne
What came before "The Wire"
And a zillion times better than the "Hill Street Blues" that came before it. Now almost twenty years old, this was groundbreaking TV drama with great scripts and accomplished... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2010 by SH_
a disappointment
I really enjoyed series one to five of Homicide but series 6 seems to have lost the plot.Frank is no longer there and is really missed. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2008 by alice trout
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