Poetic Television Review: The Old and the Dead (Homicide: Life on the Street, S3X16, 1995)

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In the wake of storms that shook the Homicide crew,
A calm returns, the mundane comes to view.
No grand theatrics, no sweeping display,
Just the grind of the day, in its unpolished way.

A skeleton buried in a yard’s quiet earth,
A tale of poverty, grief, and dearth.
No killer to chase, no villain to blame,
Just life’s quiet struggles, its unspoken shame.

The toilets won’t flush, the office decays,
A metaphor writ in bureaucratic haze.
Giardello’s sharp eye spots corruption’s thread,
But power shifts leave him slighted instead.

Howard’s back, her mind sharp as a blade,
Solving puzzles while at her desk she stayed.
Bolander falters, scarred by the past,
Yet finds his footing, his resolve steadfast.

A grandson’s guilt, a confession won,
In the shadows of wealth, a dark deed done.
Beatty’s Bolander, a portrait of pain,
A soul reclaiming what trauma had slain.

Russert’s cameo, a relic of its time,
A star-struck moment, a rhythm out of rhyme.
Yet past the glitz, the show finds its core,
In the grit of the work, the lives we explore.

For Homicide thrives in the ordinary’s embrace,
In the quiet resolve, the unglamorous pace.
It’s not the grand crimes, but the small human fights,
That anchor the series in life’s truest lights.

The old and the dead, the routine and the new,
A balance of moments, both fleeting and true.
In the mundane, the profound takes its stand,
A mirror to life, in its raw, unvarnished hand.

(Note: The review in its original form can be read here.)

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