Featured Friday: Detective TV Shows
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we look at detective TV series -- how their writers set up the intricate mysteries and murders, line up compelling suspects, and create detectives that keep us coming back week after week.
Our collection includes:
- 13 Reasons Why - “Tape 1, Side A: Justin”
- Awake - “Pilot”
- Bosch - “Chapter One: ’Tis the Season”
- Castle - “Flowers for Your Grave”
- Columbo - “Murder by the Book”
- Criminal Minds - “Haunted”
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - “Tell-Tale Hearts”
- Fargo - “Pilot”
- Ghosted - “Pilot”
- Gracepoint - “Episode One”
- Hannibal - “Apéritif”
- Happy Valley - “Series 2, Episode 1”
- Life on Mars - “Episode One”
- Luther - “Episode 1”
- Mare of Easttown - “Miss Lady Hawk Herself”
- Matlock - “Pilot”
- Mindhunter - “Episode 1”
- Murder, She Wrote - “Incident in Lot #7”
- Only Murders in the Building - “True Crime”
- Perry Mason - “Chapter Three”
- Poker Face - “Pilot - Dead Man’s Hand”
- Psych - “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops, He’s Dead”
- Reacher - “Pilot”
- Search Party - “Pilot”
- Sherlock - “A Study in Pink”
- The Afterparty - “Pilot”
- The Night Of - “The Beach”
- The X-Files - “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”
- True Detective - “The Long Bright Dark”
- True Detective: Night Country - “Part 6”
- Twin Peaks - “Northwest Passage” (Pilot pt. 1)
- Twin Peaks - “Traces to Nowhere” (Pilot pt. 2)
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!
