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Homicide: Life on the Street Is Finally Streaming
Peacock’s new remaster of the series lands next month.
If you wanted to experience the late Andre Braugher’s breakout role, the adaptation that kick-started David Simon’s TV career, and a story Vulture’s Margaret Lyons once called “ arguably the best cop show of all time,” you had to buy the DVDs, sometimes for more than $100. Episodes like the interrogation master class “Three Men and Adena” (memorably spoofed in Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’s “The Box”) and “Bop Gun,” which guest-starred Robin Williams as a grieving widower and father, cemented its legacy as an uncompromising watch and earned it die-hard fans in the process. The series crossed over with numerous shows, and Detective John Munch, the character played by the late Richard Belzer, evolved into one of the leads of Law & Order: SVU.
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