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Prime Suspect

★ 7.3 5K votes 2011–2012 1 season · 13 episodes Ended NBC
Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 9/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 8/10ProceduralA case or problem of the week, solved by a formula that works.This show: 7/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 7/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Maria BelloBrían F. O'ByrneKirk AcevedoPeter GeretyTim GriffinDamon Gupton
Written by
Alexandra CunninghamLynda La Plante
Starring
Maria BelloBrían F. O'ByrneKirk AcevedoPeter GeretyTim GriffinDamon Gupton
Written by
Alexandra CunninghamLynda La Plante
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
063125188250

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About

"A tough cop show about being doubted daily"

An NYPD detective named Jane Timoney claws her way onto a murder squad run almost entirely by resentful men who'd rather see her fail. Each episode follows a new case, but the real tension is procedural politics: whose theory gets chased, whose evidence gets ignored, who takes credit. It's tense, briskly paced, unglamorous in its depiction of the job, and carried almost entirely by its lead's sharp, exhausted performance. Not flashy, no big mythology, just a smart cop show about being underestimated and refusing to quit.

Watch it for

the lead performance as a detective fighting her squad as hard as her cases.

Maybe skip if

you want serialized mystery arcs rather than case-of-the-week procedural structure.

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All Seasons

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Season 12011
7.92K139h 34m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot7.2
22944 min
▶2Carnivorous Sheep7.6
16443 min
▶3Bitch7.9
14043 min
▶4Great Guy, Yet: Dead7.7
12644 min
▶5Regrets, I've Had a Few8.1
10744 min
▶6Shame7.8
11444 min
▶7Wednesday's Child8.0
10744 min
▶8Underwater8.5
14144 min
▶9Gone to Pieces8.1
11649 min
▶10A Gorgeous Mosaic7.9
11044 min
▶11The Great Wall of Silence8.0
10044 min
▶12Ain't No Sunshine8.3
9943 min
▶13Stuck in the Middle with You8.2
9344 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Maria Bello Detective Jane Timoney
Brían F. O'Byrne Detective Reg Duffy
Kirk Acevedo Detective Luisito Calderon
Peter Gerety Desmond Timoney
Tim Griffin Detective Augie Blando
Damon Gupton Detective Evrard Velerio
Kenny Johnson Matt Webb
Aidan Quinn Lieutenant Kevin Sweeney
Elizabeth Rodriguez Detective Carolina Rivera
Lena Georgas Tricia Roenick

Crew

Alexandra Cunningham
Lynda La Plante

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