Andrew Klavan RANKS A List of the Greatest Crime Shows Ever

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

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0:00.0	All right, today we are going to rank crime TV shows.
0:03.6	Crime is probably my favorite genre.
0:05.8	I didn't make this list.
0:06.9	I'm just gonna look at this list and say
0:08.3	whether these are top notch,
0:09.7	but is the ranking S and then ABCD,
0:12.0	and I don't know the letters after that,
0:13.5	so we'll have to guess if they get that bad.
0:16.0	I will bet that my favorite crime shows
0:18.1	are not on this list.
0:22.6	All right, so the first one, Breaking Bad, 2008 to 2013, created by Vince Gilligan, starring
0:28.1	Brian Crensen.
0:29.1	A very fine show.
0:30.9	I thought it fell apart at the end.
0:33.1	I thought the last, not the whole end, but the last episode was bad.
0:37.1	And I thought that they got carried
0:38.2	away with the story, but that's just a, that's not fair, because it's just a criticism. I still
0:41.5	thought it was a terrific show, and it was really a show about manhood, as almost every TV
0:46.1	series from that time was, and I thought it was top not, so we'll give it, I'm going to
0:52.7	give it an A instead of an S just to keep things
0:54.5	really tight, right, so that we can, we won't have great inflation here.
0:58.9	Let's go to Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selling.
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