Prodigal Son
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meanwrightPremise: Crime profiler is the son of a serial killer investigates a different serial killing every week in New York City.
Overview: Standard crime drama scripts. Introduce three people at the beginning of the show. The culprit is the one who gets the least screen time before the first commercial break and then is completely ignored for the rest of the episode. Usually, the secretary that brings in the tea as main characters are introduced to first suspect.
The main character is tormented by his past, of course, because this is a TV show and therefore lacks all creativity. He sleep jumps out of a window when he breaks the chains of his bed, for example. We get to see his hallucinations, which makes him look even worse.
His method is to spontaneously, without any thought, constructing a profile of a killer based on an initial assessment of a crime scene. Including a label for the "kind" of serial killer we're looking for. And then ignoring it for the next forty minutes while everyone flounders around getting into trouble.
Being of its time 2019-2020, it is racistly anti-racist with snide comments like "as this is a serial killing, the perpetrator will be a white male, of course"* and "I have exploited people my entire life...I am a white man."
Both the serial killer and his son are played by English actors, pretending to be American with English American accents that are a mixture of Boston and Valley Girl, unfortunately like Hugh Laurie's. The serial killer is the angel from Good Omens, and is very charismatic. The profiler's mother is hot and about eight years older than him. His sister is about twenty years younger.
Episodes
This is an episodic series featuring a single, encapsulated plot in each episodes, and ongoing character stories are developed through sub-plots. Minor contradictions and inconsistencies are common between episodes.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6 - A man gets killed. Not the wife, not the wife's lover. The son. Because he likes rabbits.
Episode 7 - Break from the normal routine. Lead and sister trapped in locked room with psychopath father being harassed by serial killer. Indications that we should think that father set up attack, although that's completely impossible.
* This first one is very mild, but also inaccurate. Not even close to accurate. Looks like less than half, but it could be almost half.
Overview: Standard crime drama scripts. Introduce three people at the beginning of the show. The culprit is the one who gets the least screen time before the first commercial break and then is completely ignored for the rest of the episode. Usually, the secretary that brings in the tea as main characters are introduced to first suspect.
The main character is tormented by his past, of course, because this is a TV show and therefore lacks all creativity. He sleep jumps out of a window when he breaks the chains of his bed, for example. We get to see his hallucinations, which makes him look even worse.
His method is to spontaneously, without any thought, constructing a profile of a killer based on an initial assessment of a crime scene. Including a label for the "kind" of serial killer we're looking for. And then ignoring it for the next forty minutes while everyone flounders around getting into trouble.
Being of its time 2019-2020, it is racistly anti-racist with snide comments like "as this is a serial killing, the perpetrator will be a white male, of course"* and "I have exploited people my entire life...I am a white man."
Both the serial killer and his son are played by English actors, pretending to be American with English American accents that are a mixture of Boston and Valley Girl, unfortunately like Hugh Laurie's. The serial killer is the angel from Good Omens, and is very charismatic. The profiler's mother is hot and about eight years older than him. His sister is about twenty years younger.
Episodes
This is an episodic series featuring a single, encapsulated plot in each episodes, and ongoing character stories are developed through sub-plots. Minor contradictions and inconsistencies are common between episodes.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6 - A man gets killed. Not the wife, not the wife's lover. The son. Because he likes rabbits.
Episode 7 - Break from the normal routine. Lead and sister trapped in locked room with psychopath father being harassed by serial killer. Indications that we should think that father set up attack, although that's completely impossible.
* This first one is very mild, but also inaccurate. Not even close to accurate. Looks like less than half, but it could be almost half.
