Cold Case: the Complete Series | TV Review
O.M.G!!! — the complete series of Cold Case is now available for streaming for FREE on the Roku channel!!!
Fans of the hit CBS show have been unable to view the series (including even doing the dreaded buying DVD of individual seasons of the series) because of music licensing issues, so getting to watch it on syndication was always limited.
One of the reasons why the show was such a hit was because the musical scores on each episode was in total sync with the times that the cold case was supposed to have happened in.
Cold Case was an American police procedural television series which ran on CBS from the fall of 2003 to the spring of 2010. The series revolved around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases. The series have a total of seven seasons and 156 episodes.
Due to the use of contemporary music in each episode, none of the seasons are presently available on DVD, again due to music licensing issues. The show was also distinguished by "double casting" in which the characters and witnesses would flash back and forth in the scene representing them as they looked at the time of the crime and in the present day. This was done with different actors as children or much younger selves especially if the year in question was well in the past.
At the end of the episode, when the killer/s were exposed and confronted the confession would be in a flashback scene depicting the murder. The killer and other characters in the story would be seen as flashing back to their younger selves and the present. The spirit of the victim would be seen either by Lilly, one of the other detectives or a loved one of the victim. This would be accompanied by the playing of a song meant to symbolize the period in which the killing took place.
Through the flashbacks, the show examined many issues related to 20th century history, including: racism, homophobia, sexism, abortion, and police brutality. Some of the cases were based on real life events or victims, akin to the "ripped from the headlines" style from shows like the Law & Order universe.
Besides Levine's original music, each episode makes extensive use of era-appropriate music for flashbacks to the year in question.
Danny Pino appeared as Valens in the CSI: NY episode “Cold Reveal”. This episode connected Cold Case to not only CSI: NY, but also to CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Cyber, and Without a Trace.
I love the Roku channel because they also have The Nanny on there among other shows that I really liked a lot. What I love about this show is all the great songs I forgot about and feel nostalgic when I hear it as the soundtrack for that episode.
