How true is the saying “it’s better to be elegant than funny”. wrote a crime (Murder wrote, in the original) was a huge success at the time of its premiere, allowing CBS to expand the series to 264 episodes divided over twelve seasons. have Angela Lansbury He participated as an executive producer between 1984-1996, when the recordings were ongoing.
This summer La 2 has allowed us to see the final seasons in 6 by 6 blocks, the last four seasons. I never understood the acceptance of this so-called mystery series. There is no quality product that can be sustained without a solid script. A glance at any one of the dozens of cases in which the author has turned into a detective is enough to confirm that the stories are told with a template without any finesse. The endings of the episodes are particularly embarrassing, she solves the murders and the director shamelessly inserts the footage as Moviola (now we call it VAR) so that all the pieces fit together, no matter how weird. . If you have to pull a rabbit out of the hat at the last moment for everything to fit it will be removed. Everything is allowed in the world of fiction, and you can’t ask for more in just 40 minutes.
Fortunately, this genre is full of much better series. One of them was Colombo, which had only 69 episodes shot, which we almost know by heart, but which was enjoyable to collect, witty scripts, and always a new unfinished business. Let’s hope TVE doesn’t consider continuing to replace the other 8 seasons of Jessica Fletcher.