After weeks of anticipation, I finally had a chance to watch the premiere of
Crossing Lines, the new NBC drama about a police unit that works for the International Criminal Court. As a police procedural, the show is not bad. William Fichtner is fantastic as always. Production values are extremely high. Bringing together detectives and investigators from a number of European states is a nice idea. And all the actors have nice accents. But as a show about the ICC,
Crossing Lines is an unmitigated disaster. The problem, of course,...