| CATEGORY | FAMILIARITIES | DIFFERENCES | THEORY |
| CHARACTERS | the detective who has a ‘natural’ instinct for law and order | The Killing, The mising has the main detective as female | PROPP |
| NARRATIVE | the first episode often introduces a lot of different characters | The missing girl was found dead in the first episode. | TODOROV |
| THEMES | the use of binary oppositions around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. | identity. a female is the main hero. | LEVI-STRAUSS |
| REPRESENTATION | reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, urban/rural | Radical gender roles and having a male sidekick | SEMIOTICS |
| TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc) | opening montage sequence that often gives clues as to the whole series – themes, locations, characters, events etc. | | |
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