Episodes where you wish the doer was someone else

Felix Spyczyk, the Polish servant in Beautiful Little Fool. It came out of nowhere and the motivation was weak. It was as if the writers picked his name out of a hat and worked the final murder scene to fit that selection. Plus, the "confession" was stupid. I know it was hard to do because the killer was dead but his grandson giving a tape of him confessing to the police? Lame!

I wish it was Mickey Stein, the guy who worked for Violet's rival and was devoted to her. He could have killed her because he felt that she was a threat to Carmela's happiness. The police see that the clock in Mickey Stein Jr.'s place and confront him about it. He turns thoughtful and says something like "My grandfather once said that he would have done anything for Carmela. It scared me when he said that, like he would even kill to protect her. Now I wonder if he actually did."

The case wouldn't actually be solved but the cops would be pretty sure. It wouldn't matter if there was proof anyway. The killer is dead.

Colors

Another cheap "best friend doer". The racist would've been too obvious, the gangster though works and ties into the "business vs fun" theme concerning baseball that we see at the end when Will goes to his nephew's game.



Wishing

Should've been the bully, or at least have him put away for something like characters in the other episodes are (was he? I don't quite remember).




And so Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I REFUSE your pardon!

The Red and The Blue - Had to throw that one in. For me, this was one of the bigger ones. Yes Dusty was a addict but that motive is weak compared to Edie's. Not only was Truck dumping her and going back to his wife, he was going to abandon their career. For a narcissist like Edie,that would have been too much to take. She should have been the one pulling the trigger,not Dusty. Dusty should have been the one who had kept his mouth shut in exchange for being bribed with drug money.

There is an old Janis Ian song with a line that pretty much sums up, IMO, Cold Case perps:
"If my enemies don't get me, my friends will know how."
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Same latter part of the post as the one I put up for Your most hated Cold Case Killers:

Garrett Caine ("Ravaged") - The episode reminded me too much of a great story I read, especially the dog and her trading her body parts. He was such a freaking misogynistic *beep* that I wished he did it, so that he'll go away and pay. It was funny because I didn't even recognize Steve Sandvoss who I was really in <3 with before. Ha...

Diane Moore ("Schadenfreude") - Again, she didn't do it, but I could pin the whole thing on her. I didn't like how they made it Kitty since she was always such a good friend all for that 'twist'. Just because Diane's husband died on the table didn't make it the doctor's fault, much less her being so bitter and vengeful that she destroyed two lives. I wished she did it just so she can get her just desserts.

Wishing was the first thing that popped into my head.
You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same.

A lot of people are saying that the killer should be another character in the episode- often someone they don't like.

But the very fact that people are saying that X should be the killer, instead of Y, is what makes it effective. The show wouldn't be nearly as suspenseful if you could easily guess the killer.

I often could identify who the killer would be. Firstly, you eliminate the obvious- bullies, rivals etc. Except in rare cases, the killer was often out of left field, and was far less obvious.

I noticed that, when suspects were interviewed, someone would say a throwaway line, and I thought "I wonder why they had them say that?". Later, Lily would remember that this person said that line, ad would crack the case.

I became quite good at guessing the killer, and got it right 80% of the time.

There are a lot of red herring thrown into this show, to throw you off-track, but don't ignore them. Often what seems like a red herring turned out to point to both the killer and the motive.

One example was "Superstar". I found it strange that the reporter called everyone "champ". It is a term of greeting, but it seemed strange. Later, a strange phone call makes Lily realise who is responsible, because the person on the phone said "champ", the same expression as the sports reporter.

I wish that in "One Fall" the killer of the wrestler had been his ex-wife.

The ex-wife in this is such an ungrateful bitch. She didn't like him working on the wharves, but when he becomes a wrestler, and bonds with his son, which is what she wanted, she doesn't want him to be a wrestler either, and takes his son away from him.

She seems like many ungrateful bitches who are never happy, no matter what their husband does.

I think that the bitch should have been the killer, she go to jail, and be seperated from her son, which would serve her right.