“Sexy crime-solving,” replied no one, except the minds behind NBC’s latest procedural series Twist.
“What’s missing from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, that classic tale of impoverished orphanhood?”
Who knows where else this trend may lead us.
Which altogether sounds utterly bizarre, though the project does have the backing of mega-producer Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Matrix); it’s also not entirely surprising, with classics-turned-procedurals becoming something a strange TV trend of late.