Crossing Lines

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Season 1
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 63 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 63
  3. Negative: 10 out of 63
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  1. Dayodk
    Jan 8, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Started off quite good but by the time it got to the end of the second series all talent had taken a holiday. Poor cinematography and attention to detail( sunlight reveals dirty glass door in the office 2nd series). Hard for the actors to work with a tired script. It feels as if the writer just got bored. Poor ending, Eva's chasing ghosts, French Policemen are getting shot in kitchens and the boss gets shot three times and Hickman doesn't disarm the Doctor and why didn't she put the last three in him to shut him up? Did she work out that it wasn't just his evidence that could convict her. 3M$ per episode, most of which went on wages! Spoiler Alert, if you make it to the end!… Expand
  2. Heptite
    Jun 30, 2013
    0
    A night-time soap opera disguised as a police drama, and it will probably only get worse every episode. Eventually everybody will be having sex with everybody else. Forget _that_ noise.
  3. Letmetellyou
    Jun 24, 2013
    0
    Not watching another women serial killer probably will include child molesters and sadists) show.. Feels like communing with perverts and psychopaths across the airways...who are getting off watching this lowbrow junk tv...too bad
  4. Bo33y
    Jun 30, 2013
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. We are ze Interpoool, excuse ze very bad french.

    Our Story begins with a girl not any just any girl, but unfortunately she died.

    Am ze Interpoool, zis meh crim sceen, are you suer monsieur, zis un jurisdiction. No monsiuer it is because of ze seral killied. Okay fine will be leaving now. Off to hire the narrating morphine addict, who coincidentally reads palms, but cannot use his own palm. DUNNANANA... To the ICC HQ. Language is lost in translation when taking the piss out of dicks. Into the Lab and introducing the team, he is, no he is, but he is, and finally he is continuing each others lines. Any logical person has turned this show off at this point.

    However strangely enough to gain closure may have fast forwarded until the ending this premiere. Did the show get any better? No it went beyond stupidity. They gone and lost a member of their elite ICC team. Because they went in guns blazing without using headsets to communicate to each other, or using local police to sweep the park. Their reasoning was because their target was a diplomatic serial killer. Being equally as stupid, needing rituals to become a sadist. The team employs drug users, brawlers, voice impressionists, and generally every other questionable character in their elite unit.

    The ICC have been given the sheriff's badge to do as they like. Like the producers for an American network they have that team USA mentality. Any logical agency would use extradition orders when commanded by the Hague. Have related firearms permits and work alongside local resources while structuring their disposal. Not be given a sheriff 's badge literally deputised as a hit squad. Questionably stupid upon discovering their personal issues, lives, families. Given quackers to solve.

    This show had a starting premise of diplomatic serial killers. I can only imagine what they will be pulling out of the cracker box next week. Probably guessed it right, being completely quackers when lead by this team of parrots, with warning of do not feed the pigeons. Like clowns dress up and play cops and robbers when crossing lines and accents. How did the Pikey become an actor, he was employed by the circus or was it the carnival? Yes we understand how fun fiction is.    … Expand
  5. starla
    Dec 19, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It’s difficult to listen to Sutherland’s terrible accent but at least he tried. This show is very predictable.

    Also, as most American TV shows, Crossing Lines has the usual cast of progressive characters: a female boss; a homosexual (lesbian); the American tough guy; etc.
    The show also puts forth today’s culturally bankrupt ideologies - one show berates countries which want strong borders as hateful. The show is just not believable... so many actions and results in so short a time. This is the worst show ever!    … Expand

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#56 Most Discussed TV Season of 2013
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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    Jul 12, 2013
    67
    [Crossing Lines] offers exotic locales, a veritable United Nations of a cast, and a revered actor (in this case, Donald Sutherland) phoning it in. [19 Jul 2013, p.82]
  2. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Jun 24, 2013
    42
    There's potentially a very interesting show about cops from different cultures, with different methods of policing, learning to work together. Based on the pilot, at least, Crossing Lines just treats all that as window dressing for the same old, same old.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jun 24, 2013
    70
    Though constructed from off-the-rack tropes and predictable dialogue, the show also keeps moving forward, causing its characters enough trouble that you feel compelled to stick around at least to see how they get out of it.
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