It can't decide whether it wants to go the full Batman/Tintin spectrum of Pantone, with arch Chinese villains in opium dens, and the equivalent of a Roy Lichtenstein poster as plot, or simply be a dark police action movie – or even a quasi-morality play, exploring the gifting of the world's luck to an individual (Nesbitt), and thus fails on all three counts.
Although not based on a true-life murder case, Happy Valley on BBC One was a dark police drama set in West Yorkshire that some TV critics hailed as the best thing on British TV in 2014.
Henning Mankell, whose latest novels seem to be losing their creative edge, has found a worthy successor in Nesbø's dark police procedurals taking place in a depressive Ingmar Bergman landscape.
But another time, while hanging out on a park bench with a group of black kids after dark, police pulled up nearby, waited for backup to arrive, then aggressively questioned us with no evidence of wrongdoing.
In that heist, the stones from the global diamond center of Antwerp had been loaded on a plane headed to Zurich when robbers dressed in dark police clothing and hoods drove through a hole they'd cut in the Brussels Airport fence in two black cars with blue police lights flashing.
A tip following the mass shooting led police to a home in the nearby city of Redlands, where officers saw the suspects leave in a dark SUV, police said.
Craig Russell's Brother Grimm (Hutchinson) is a dark, broody police procedural that will never let you look at fairy tales in the same way again.
FX — which also gave us the great, dark police series "The Shield"; "Rescue Me," about a New York City fire company after September 11th; and Steven Bochco's unblinking Iraq-war drama "Over There" — is nothing if not intense.
It had all the details of a nightmare: barefoot walking in rough roads, risking death in the dark, police dogs hunting us, drinking water from the rain pools in the road and a rude awakening at gunpoint from the police under a bridge.
But after dark, police seemed intent on enforcing what had earlier been a request that "all those wishing to demonstrate, disperse well before the evening hours".
The narrator grew… After dark, police sirens rip us The narrator recalls when he taught at a school in Yeovil, a small town in Somerset.
