Murder in the Wicked West

The biggest take away from this series for me is the arrogance of small town police departments. The best example is season 1 episode 2 Murder on Main Street We are introduced to Carole Newell, BAPD Detective (retired) From the moment she starts talking it becomes obvious that she is self congratulatory and obsurdly proud of herself as she lays out her "perceptions"... Right away you become aware that.ms Newell has a personal issue with the victims wife and she proceeds to display her personal bias right off the bat. Her smug leaps of logic and misinterpretations if clues are almost comical if a man hadn't been murdered. Between the ignorance and personal vendetta it shines an embarrassing spot light on small town police forces , The detective has her 15 minutes of fame but at the expense of the truth She's a Barney Fife for the real world.... Scary really.

What ive seen in the 3 first episodes, it merely follows the investigation discovery reciept for a family real crime tv gathering at night, very little blood, no police body cams, and very few delinquent interviews done at the police pitstop.

But its based on very good storytelling through interviews with the detectives and police force, and a heavy load of beefed up homeboy, friend, brother or grandfather interviews that gives a good feeling of them things going dire, as it usually did, and still does out there in the wild west.

Some media clips, and audio evidence and stillphotoes of victims are used to place the dominoes before they fell so in general its a policesteered and policedominated investigative series from the land of silence, not sicilly,utah, just the grumpy old gunslinging midwest USA.

So if you want some more flashing blue crime scenes, go somewhere else bodycam flicks, but this is decent storytelling anyway. A small recommend.