| Categories | Similarities | 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 new characters | In the missing the girl comes back however the girl dies in the killing | TODOROV |
| Themes | The use of binary oppositions around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. | Theme of death is in the killing, the theme of hope. | LEVI-STRAUSS |
| Representation | Reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, urban/rural. | | SEMIOTICS |
| Technical Codes | opening montage sequence that often gives clues as to the whole series – themes, locations, characters, events etc.
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