Police stories featuring life at its most frustrating part. Both present very long cold cases, with slowly addictive characters, driven by obsession an stubborness. The mysteries aren't revealed all at once, it takes a very long time in both dramas to find out whodunnit. Kind of a similar atmosphere of weighty expectation for the leads to finally solve it and be done with it in order to live the rest of their lives freely.
... And lots of missed chances (that's the frustrating part).
... And lots of missed chances (that's the frustrating part).
Old cases that seemed solved turn out to be cold cases. Same eerie small-town atmosphere, where everybody knows everybody else's business but at the same time murders were committed and people were blamed when they were not guilty, based on how the town perceives them.
Also - personal hurt and obsession / drive to solve the murders for the leads. Nice plot pacing (though slow).
Also - personal hurt and obsession / drive to solve the murders for the leads. Nice plot pacing (though slow).
