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Review: ‘Jesse Stone: Thin Ice’

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While most crime series today rely on some sort of technical or psychological twist -- the wonders of forensics, the special knowledge of a reformed fake psychic or a good-guy serial killer, “Jesse Stone: Thin Ice,’ which debuts on Sunday, sticks with the fundamentals.

Based on the works of one genre icon — Robert B. Parker -- and starring another -- Tom Selleck in the title role -- the Jesse Stone series (this is the fifth TV movie) offers a refreshing return to a television era when small towns were brimming with intricate crimes, filmmakers were not afraid to keep their actors in closed-space dialogue for minutes and the biggest psychological twist a cop faced came in a bottle, usually with a red or black label.

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Stone is a former LAPD detective who got kicked off the force for drinking and became the chief of police in the small Massachusetts town of Paradise. He has an ex-wife he still loves and a shrink who smokes so much that it is at times difficult to see that yes, that is William Devane, still hale and hearty, eyes twinkling away under all those silver whiskers.

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--Mary McNamara

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