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Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television - Season 1
The series tells of a different comic experience, as LAPD thinks of putting up a good idea to create a workforce that engages actors with murder investigators. Over time, Ryan and Mathers meet kindly and solve the first two murders in different experiments during that time.
21 March 1974, New Zealand
21 January 1969, La Mirada, California, USA
4 June 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
27 September 1986, Los Angeles County, California, USA
19 December 1968, Long Island, New York, USA
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
January 30, 2019
By forcing it into a traditional half-hour format, YouTube Red overplays Ryan Hansen Solves Crime on Television's hand.
January 30, 2019
"Solves Crimes" has potential, but its problem is hard-wired into its premise and its venue: You wish that someone more interesting to watch than Mr. Hansen were at the center of it.
January 30, 2019
The reason to watch RHSCOT is for Ryan Hansen, who is funny, charming, and an exceedingly likable lead. But he gets a little buried in the show's manic desire to incorporate and satirize every conceivable genre in each half-hour episode.
January 30, 2019
I don't think Wiley is giving a great performance as Hansen's sidekick, but it's so much fun to see the Orange Is the New Black and Handmaid's Tale veteran in this context that it hardly matters.
January 30, 2019
The police-procedural plot is really, it turns out, just a framework on which to hang jokes. And they're good ones, so that makes Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television lots of fun to watch.
January 30, 2019
"Ryan Hansen Solves Crime on Television" is a strange mix, but who cares? It delivers the laughs.
December 28, 2018
One episode turned into two, and four hours later, I'd finished the entire 8-episode first season and found myself sitting in a puddle of disappointment because the second season doesn't air until January 30th.
January 30, 2019
For all of its self-deprecation (and platform deprecation), "Ryan Hansen Solves Crime on Television" is a sturdy little half-hour, with a procedural template that promises a neatly tied off case at the end of each episode.
