Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

So I started watching this show last week and now I'm on the last episode of season 1. All I have to say is holy crap! This show is absolutely amazing! All the characters are well acted, well scripted, well written, and they all feel important to the story. Even the minor characters who don't get a lot of screen time are given scenes to shine. One character's death was incredibly disturbing and I can't wait to see how they focus on the killer's guilt in the latter seasons.

I've always heard great things about this show but never bothered to look it up, writing it off as yet another cop procedural with little in the sense of realism and nothing but altruistic cops and their crusade against crime. How wrong I was...