# Recommend a crime-of-the-week type show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 3, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480 "2023-07-03T02:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480/2 "2023-07-03T04:02:20Z")
_Poker Face_ (on Peacock)? > [@Poker Face (Natasha Lyonne, not Lady Gaga)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-face-natasha-lyonne-not-lady-gaga/978928): > > [New series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(TV_series)) called Poker Face. The opening credits uses the old simple [yellow fonts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-titles-stop-being-yellow/939469) and episode titles to deliberately start the show off with an old feel, and that may have primed me for it, but it reminds me of the old 1970s less-than weekly, hour and a half TV shows, with leisurely-paced stories. It actually reminds me a lot of Colombo, with a new cast of well-developed characters each episode, and the main character first showing up well into the episode, after the “crime of the week” has bee… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480)._