Murder in the First (Seasons 1–3)

Murder in the First (2014) is a San Francisco crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Homicide partners Terry English (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson) pick up what looks like a routine killing, only for the trail to lead to Erich Blunt — a young, charismatic tech-company CEO with the money and lawyers to stay untouchable.

The hook is structure: a single investigation stretches across an entire season instead of a case per week, turning the show into a slow chess match between the cops and a suspect armored in alibis. Their own lives run in parallel — Terry is burying his wife and carrying the grief, Hildy is raising a daughter alone. Tom Felton, cast hard against his Harry Potter image, plays the slippery tech billionaire.

The series comes from Steven Bochco, the architect of the police procedural (NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues). Three seasons on TNT, each built around one major crime and the courtroom fight that follows. Made for viewers who prefer the trial to the car chase. Stream Murder in the First online on iFILM.