Should you watch Cold Case?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Cold Case
Series · 2003
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
The sides of Cold Case
- A Philadelphia detective reopening old murders
- Flashbacks to the year of each crime
- Songs from each victim's era
Cold Case is good for you if…
- you like a case closed for decades finally solved in one episode.
- you like the last scene where the victim appears one final time.
- you like each case told to the hits of its year.
Cold Case is bad for you if…
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you can't take murdered victims, many of them young, week after week.
About: justice · memory · guilt
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