Yes, the supernatural elements of “The X-Files” were the ones that were Xeroxed most often, but the procedural FBI stuff was just as big a part of the show (and aped similarly). Such was the case with “Profiler,” a crime drama that lasted far longer than I remembered. Ally Walker played a forensic psychologist who worked with the FBI violent crimes task force in Atlanta, Georgia, hunting down the worst of the worst (at least as far as the late-90s was concerned). The show has a winning supporting cast that included character actor Robert Davi and a pre-“nip/tuck” Julian McMahon, although it stumbled when Walker was replaced in later seasons (sound familiar). Bonus trivia: it took place in the same universe as “The Pretender,” a similarly long-running “X-Files” rip-off that honestly I’d forgotten about until now.
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