Murderville Review – Netflix Takes A Very Oversaturated TV Genre And Makes It Fun

In the United States, there are dozens of police procedural TV series currently on the air, and all of them are paint-by-numbers, predictable. What's more, 99% of them don't have Ice-T in a starring role. Luckily, Netflix has a police procedural that you'll actually want to watch because of its unpredictability and the fact that it's making fun of the genre as a whole. And it manages to do that without Ice-T.

Netflix's latest comedy series Murderville is bizarre, unique, and most importantly, hilarious. Each episode sees Detective Terry Seattle team up with a trainee--a celebrity playing themself--and there is a muder that needs to be solved. The twist is that the trainee doesn't have a script, so they have to improvise their way through the entire episode.

This is an American remake of the British show Murder in Successville, the major difference between the UK and American versions is that the town isn't made up of celebrities on Murderville, and it heavily plays into the police procedural format.

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