Sometimes a crime show on TV turns into something higher and better, a transfigured thing. The Victim, from Scotland, falls into this category. Then there are the crime series which offer a sleek refined pleasure that fills a deep, civilised need. A Murder of Crows from Germany does this is in a way that cheers the soul even though it looks at dark and terrible things.
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