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Theatrical poster for Zodiac (2007), with the film's title and a man's face half in shadow against a dark background.

Zodiac Is a Film About Jurisdiction

The Zodiac killer is the least present figure in Zodiac. What the film dramatises instead is how knowledge fails to travel between desks, counties and decades.

Lena Ashworth·22 Oct·5 min

An emergency department trauma bay at shift change, fluorescent light above an empty gurney.

The Pitt: A Real-Time Argument for Procedural Discipline

R. Scott Gemmill's real-time hospital drama on Max ran fifteen episodes across a single shift. It is the best procedural television has produced in a decade.

Priya Nair·14 Sep·6 min

A yellow sticky note pinned to a corkboard with red string connecting it to a police-department shield.

High Potential and the Return of the Broadcast Procedural

ABC's High Potential premiered in September 2024 to the strongest broadcast numbers of the season and built from there. The show is a throwback in ways that reveal what streaming has quietly stopped doing.

Priya Nair·4 Feb·7 min