Cross
New season. Higher stakes. Same Cross.
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
Why watch Cross
Aldis Hodge carries Cross on pure intensity—a detective so fractured by grief that he's become the thing he hunts. This isn't another procedural; it's a character study wrapped in a serial killer thriller, where the real mystery is whether a broken man can solve crimes while his own life disintegrates. Hodge's performance has the raw, unguarded vulnerability of Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight, mixed with the methodical obsession of True Detective's Rust Cohle.
The show moves with propulsive rhythm—each episode tightens the noose on both the case and Cross's mental state. Director/creator Ben Watkins crafts scenes that feel claustrophobic and intimate even when they're sprawling across a city. The tone sits somewhere between network drama's accessibility and prestige cable's willingness to let characters suffer, making it feel urgent without pretension.
This is for anyone who got hooked on Mindhunter or the first season of True Detective—shows that understand that the best crime dramas aren't about solving the puzzle, they're about watching brilliant people crack under pressure. Cross earns its darkness, and by the final act you'll be thinking about Alex's impossible choices for days.
— The What2Watch desk · US
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Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
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I've read quite a number of James Patterson's Alex Cross, crime thrillers over the years, so I came to this with an enthusiasm that was quickly quashed. The heavy handed script full of trite cliches, stereotypes and clumsy characterisations, is downright irritating. Its not the actors fault, in fact, most hand in pretty decent performances. Sadly, so much else feels contrived and over stated, its hard to reco…Show more
