This show from 1989 was ahead of its time. It follows the investigations of the Behavioral Crimes Unit of the Justice Department and their encounters with disturbed criminals. It is the forerunner to programs like Criminal Minds (especially), Millennium, Profiler, etc.
The show is notable for its cast, featuring TV stalwarts David Soul, Kent McCord, and Richard Kind; character actor M. Emmett Walsh, and Jennifer Hetrick (who played a popular recurring character on Star Trek: The Next Generation a few years later). The stories are a little uneven. The cast is capable in those cases where they are given something interesting to play.
The general vibe is very much in key with Michael Mann's crime film "Manhunter," and the show's least successful character is a poor imitation of that film's protagonist. The show's cancellation after only eight episodes seems like a sad event in retrospect, considering the number of forensic procedurals that have crowded the airwaves in the last twenty years. Sometimes success is all about the timing. Unsub might have developed into something really good if it had been given some support from its network.
The show is notable for its cast, featuring TV stalwarts David Soul, Kent McCord, and Richard Kind; character actor M. Emmett Walsh, and Jennifer Hetrick (who played a popular recurring character on Star Trek: The Next Generation a few years later). The stories are a little uneven. The cast is capable in those cases where they are given something interesting to play.
The general vibe is very much in key with Michael Mann's crime film "Manhunter," and the show's least successful character is a poor imitation of that film's protagonist. The show's cancellation after only eight episodes seems like a sad event in retrospect, considering the number of forensic procedurals that have crowded the airwaves in the last twenty years. Sometimes success is all about the timing. Unsub might have developed into something really good if it had been given some support from its network.