Motive (Seasons 1–4)

Motive (2013) is a Canadian crime series you can watch online on iFILM. It throws out the whodunit — you meet the killer in the first few minutes. The hook is the why.

Vancouver homicide detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) works each case from the wrong end. The show flags both victim and killer up front; her job is to trace the hidden thread between two people who, on paper, barely knew each other. Her partner Oscar Vargas (Louis Ferreira) and the squad fill in the rest.

That inverted setup owes a lot to old Columbo, except the tension lives in psychology — what pushes an ordinary person over the edge. Four steady seasons of procedural for anyone tired of guessing the culprit from the cast list. Stream Motive (2013) online on iFILM.