Friday 17th April 2020 and day 25 of the Coronavirus lockdown. The CBS crime drama Criminal Minds ran its last ever episode in the UK this week. It was the fifteen season of the long-running popular drama which has spawned two other dramas; Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour as well as […]
At What Point Does Crime Fiction Become Merely Gratuitous?
Gratuitous or realistic; the blood and guts, and downright bloody violent scenes shown in TV crime drama’s and written down in crime novels in today’s world? You may think I have an opinion from the tone of the question but I’m not sure I do just yet. But I am wondering at what point we […]