Fox began out the autumn 2024 TV schedule with some bold new dramas, together with one which grew to become not solely a success for the community, but in addition a success streaming on Hulu. You possibly can possible guess based mostly on the title that Homicide in a Small City is against the law drama. As anyone who watches a lot of crime dramas, I can attest that Homicide in a Small City doesn’t fairly comply with the identical components discovered elsewhere, and govt producer Jeff Wachtel shared with CinemaBlend why folks ought to test it out streaming although Season 1 ended forward of the 2025 TV schedule.
Homicide in a Small City follows Chief Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland) as he strikes from a giant metropolis to what ought to have been a much less crime-filled job within the small city of Gibsons… solely to search out that even stunning places off the overwhelmed path can have darkish underbellies. Cassandra Lee (Kristin Kreuk) is the native librarian and object of Alberg’s eye, however she offers in additional than simply books all through the primary season.
The chemistry between the leads is nice, and I will not spoil the occasions of the ultimate two episodes for any readers who have not checked out the present but, however Season 1 ends very strongly with a Schitt’s Creek alum exhibiting that he undoubtedly can ship in dramatic roles. If I hadn’t been bought on MIST earlier than the ultimate two-parter, these episodes would have received me over.
And all eight episodes of Homicide in a Small City’s first season can be found now with a Hulu subscription! The present was doing properly sufficient streaming forward of the finale that it ranked as Fox’s #1 new present and Fox’s #3 present total for the season to that time on the platform. Whereas Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk’s drama is nonetheless ready on a renewal, EP Jeff Wachtel defined the present’s advantage as a present to stream and even binge-watch:
There is a sort of present that is not at the moment that favored. Some individuals are calling it cozy crime. That is not the worst description, however in a world that is very fraught and really difficult and that is principally about driving folks aside, this can be a completely different taste. The characters are aspirational. They have harm, however their intent is nice and the placement is gorgeous. And whereas there are unhealthy folks on the planet, the world will develop.
Whereas Homicide in a Small City is against the law drama, there’s additionally loads of concentrate on their characters and particularly the romance between Sutherland’s Alberg and Kreuk’s Cassandra. In actual fact, this present’s strategy to that romance was a large attraction to the Smallville alum, and Kreuk’s casting as his co-lead excited Sutherland for the position. I may also vouch for MIST becoming the “cozy crime” description… to a sure extent. Jeff Wachtel went on:
You do not need to be too cozy, proper? You do not need an viewers to really feel fully relaxed. I do suppose that shock is among the most enjoyable components of the storytelling course of, and shock and comfy do not essentially go hand in hand. You need to have the liberty to shake it up and shock folks. That stated, there’s form of a heat, welcoming presence to this present. And if you are able to do that, and have writing and appearing at a very excessive degree, I simply do not suppose there are too many exhibits that do that.
As anyone who was pressured by the suspense of Season 1 (in a great way!) greater than as soon as, it’s undoubtedly not cozy from begin to end, which is one other aspect that makes the connection the true coronary heart. That’s to not say that the primary batch of episodes was good from begin to end, however the govt producer already previewed how Season 2 will deal with the problem that bugged me all season. He shared how a separate problem that binge-watchers could decide up might be dealt with otherwise in a second season as properly, saying:
One of many conveniences of the primary season was what number of crimes occur on this comparatively small space. In Season 2, we’re conscious of that, and he will have a broader purview. Dangerous stuff occurs basically on the planet, however this can be a fairly welcoming surroundings, and I feel the work may be very skilled, so it is a good type of storytelling, and it is not a type of storytelling which you can get many different locations proper now. The mixture of exhausting crime however heat characters and a few humor thrown in. It is not a novel mixture, but it surely’s a fairly uncommon mixture proper now.
Actually, with a run of simply eight episodes, the concept of binge-watching Homicide in a Small City isn’t almost as daunting as another exhibits. Plus, having watched it weekly on Fox myself, you may also test it out at your personal tempo as an alternative of dashing via the episodes. And if it looks as if I’m going exhausting on echoing the chief producer’s pitch for folks to stream the crime drama… properly, I for one would love a second season!
Apparently, an early plan for the season was for the late Donald Sutherland to have a job, however his well being wouldn’t enable it. James Cromwell performed the character as an alternative, and the sequence premiere ended with a dedication to Rossif Sutherland’s father. That’s about as far into spoilers as I’ll go, although, so should you’re taken with trying out Homicide in a Small City, you are able to do so streaming on Hulu now.