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LAW AND ORDER LAND — Crime dramas are the perfect television to binge-watch or have on in the background as you fold laundry, eat TV dinners, or channel surf. They're familiar, episodic and entertaining.

That familiarity and gritty realness can lead to a viewer tuning out the wilder twists of the genre.

Warning: The following story contains minor spoilers for years-old episodes of Criminal Minds and BBC Sherlock. Continue at your own peril.

I watched a Criminal Minds episode where a man with post-traumatic stress disorder dissociated into a murderous vigilante; 11-year-old me was obsessed and mortified. Sixteen-year-old me stopped watching the show when Agent Reid started having visions of the future while crime-solving. I'm sure some explanation existed, and I'm happy to read any comments explaining it, but I didn't want to watch a season to hear the excuse.

When I was obsessed with BBC's Sherlock at the beginning of the 2010s (ah, the easier times) I didn't realize how much having a roommate who shoots bullets into the wall and keeps severed heads in the fridge isn't "quirky." I now also realize that locking Watson in a laboratory to see if he was drugged was a real jerk move when he could have just tested their food in that lab? Don't even get me started on the episode where a boomerang killed the guy.

I love this genre immensely, but it's primed for a good laugh. This video poking fun at Scandinavian crime dramas delivers on that punchline with a side of Scandinavian self-owns.

"Is it about my son, Gunnar Gunnarssonson?" will never fail to crack me up.

The drama, the lighting, the music, the comedic straight-faced timing; it's perfect.

While I might not watch as many crime dramas as I used to, I'm hooked on the saga of Gunnar Gunnarson. And if you have any other killer crime dramas or hilarious twists, feel free to put them in the comments.