One of the interesting things about these police interrogations is there’s always a Sherlock Holmes. When they’re at their best the cat and mouse game of a good police interrogation far surpasses any work of fiction for nuance and psychological depth. The psychological games a good interrogator plays, and how successful those games are, is just fascinating. To me at least.
Me too, can’t possibly make it through an episode of Game of Thrones for example for precisely that reason. But interestingly I find these interrogations so fascinating, even when the case itself was violent. Maybe it’s the comeuppance that the perpetrator is in the process of receiving. But ultimately I think it’s all about the psychology with a level of nuance and subtlety that just doesn’t exist in fiction, especially TV and movies.
