History YMMV / TheFirst48

* NamesTheSame: Dallas detective [[Series/TimeTeam Phil Harding.]]

* TheWoobie: Kevin Ruggerio of Miami, dumped by his fiancee by his third episode... by telephone.
* WhatAnIdiot: One eventually comes to realize that suspects will do and say all sorts of things that incriminate themselves when left alone in the interrogation room ''even when they know they're being filmed''. One notable instance was a suspect in Miami who called his father and told him where the murder weapon was hidden and to move it before the house was searched, thinking he'd get away with it because they were speaking in Creole. A Haitian-born detective sat in front of the monitor and translated this for the benefit of the detectives on the case, who were trying not to bust a gut laughing.

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Each viewer has their "favorite" detective: Joe Schillaci of Miami and Anthony Mullins and Caroline Mason of Memphis are among the most popular.

* TheWoobie - Kevin Ruggerio of Miami, dumped by his fiancee by his third episode... by telephone.
* WhatAnIdiot - One eventually comes to realize that suspects will do and say all sorts of things that incriminate themselves when left alone in the interrogation room ''even when they know they're being filmed''. One notable instance was a suspect in Miami who called his father and told him where the murder weapon was hidden and to move it before the house was searched, thinking he'd get away with it because they were speaking in Creole. A Haitian-born detective sat in front of the monitor and translated this for the benefit of the detectives on the case, who were trying not to bust a gut laughing.

** Perpetrators that murder people for no reason except [[ForTheEvulz that they can]]. It doesn't help that many of them [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse look completely normal]] [[ParanoiaFuel and that all it takes is you you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and you're dead]].

* TooSoon - "Lester Street" (Memphis) aired a scant two months after the killings occurred. Many local viewers were not happy about that.

** Also from Dallas: Detective Wrestler/DwayneJohnson.

* CreepyAwesome: Phoenix Detective Jason Schecterle, who was horribly disfigured in a car wreck and looks like a Fallout ghoul.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Even with the heavy blurring of the corpses, it's still terrifying to hear the terrified 9-1-1 calls, then see detectives walk into a room with a blurred out corpse, blood splatters on the walls, and descriptions of things like "she was stabbed 70 times! She fought with her attacker, as evidenced by this streak of blood here!"

* AlasPoorVillain - The first victim talked about in the episode "Loose Ends" was apparently one of the perpetrators in a robbery that ended in murder. He was apparently killed by a fellow robber who was angry that he had failed to dispose of a cell phone that he had used to set up the robbery. They show pictures of the victim when he was younger and have his mother talk about how devastated she was by his death, how proud she was when he graduated from high school, how she always knew that he would stay at home with her even after his siblings moved out, and how distressed she was when she heard that he had himself been involved in committing a homicide.

* AlasPoorVillain - The first victim talked about in the episode "Loose Ends" was apparently one of the perpetrators in a robbery that ended in murder. They show pictures of him when he was younger and have his mother talk about how devastated she was by his death, how proud she was when he graduated from high school, how she always knew that he would stay at home with her even after his siblings moved out, and how distressed she was when she heard that he had himself been involved in committing a homicide.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Even with the heavy blurring of the corpses, it's still terrifying to hear the terrified 9-1-1 calls, then see them walk into a room with a blurred out corpse, blood splatters on the walls, and descriptions of things like "she was stabbed 70 times! She fought with her attacker, as evidenced by this streak of blood here!"

* HighOctanceNightmareFuel: Even with the heavy blurring of the corpses, it's still terrifying to hear the terrified 9-1-1 calls, then see them walk into a room with a blurred out corpse, blood splatters on the walls, and descriptions of things like "she was stabbed 70 times! She fought with her attacker, as evidenced by this streak of blood here!"

* Tearjerker: Witnessing the reactions of family and friends of the victims can be quite heart-wrenching.

* TheWoobie - Kevin Ruggerio of Miami, dumped by his fiancee by his third episode... by telephone.