Someone Else's Movie

Jenna Cato Bass on Homicide - Life on the Street

Episode Summary

South African filmmaker Jenna Cato Bass, whose crafty new thriller Good Madam drops on Shudder Thursday, celebrates the brilliant police procedural Homicide: Life on the Street -- seven seasons and a movie that were truly ahead of their time. Your genial host Norm Wilner is all for it.

Episode Notes

South African filmmaker Jenna Cato Bass -- director of High Fantasy and Flatland , co-writer of Rafiki and whose crafty new thriller Good Madam drops on Shudder this Thursday, July 14th -- found her early aesthetic in Homicide: Life on the Street, the revolutionary NBC series which explored policing and morality in 1990s Baltimore  over seven seasons and a feature-length finale. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy to tweak the mission statement for this episode. Who wouldn't?