EPISODE
SEASON
Motive - Season 1
In the dramatic mystery series 'Motive', detectives, Angie Flynn, and her partner, Oscar Vega, try to figure out the reason of the crime and why the killers do something like that. This season opens with killing the science teacher, Glenn Martin, and the detectives come to doubt that the murderer is his wife, who has a liaison, but Angie Flynn considers that the reason behind the crime is more than the passion.
22 November 1988, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
8 November 1988, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
31 July 1971, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
17 May 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
18 July 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
26 September 1984, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
25 December 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 20, 2013
There was nothing within these episodes that made me desperate to see the next mystery, or which gave me a connection to these characters that I can see evolving considerably.
May 20, 2013
You've heard of open-and-shut cases. Motive is more like open and yawn.
May 20, 2013
It's fun to watch Lehman nail her lines; she just needs a different show in which to do it.
May 20, 2013
Unfortunately, the missteps revealed on the show hardly demythologize the police.
May 22, 2013
Unfortunately, this gimmicky premise quickly renders the show a "whocares?,"
May 17, 2013
As viewers of Columbo will remember, detective stories have been giving away whodunit for at least 40 years.
May 20, 2013
Motive's format isn't a completely original concept (the long-running TV mystery Columbo did for decades), but it definitely feels fresh among a crowded schedule of genre competitors.
May 20, 2013
If you're into mystery shows, you could do a lot worse.
May 16, 2013
As a whodunit with the who already answered, Motive is more than passable and quite a bit better than two of this season's string-along ABC clunkers -- Zero Hour and Red Widow.
May 17, 2013
Lehman is good, most everything's OK, but nothing is especially fresh or compelling.
