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Yup. It's all downhill from here...
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Columbo would like a word about your format criticism.
shareNever watched it, but that formula just doesn't make sense to me, wheres the fun in knowing everything ahead of time and waiting for the main character to learn about it? Just doesn't appeal to me, wheres the mystery and fun of not knowing until the end? i don't like watching something for almost an hour and in that time i'm never wondering whats gonna happens, cause i already know.
shareGuess it's not for everyone but Monk also followed this format and was also successful. The fun (for me and I assume others) was watching the detectives needle their suspect. I haven't seen Poker Face yet but Columbo and Monk wouldn't have worked as whodunits because they zeroed in on their suspects (who thought they had performed the perfect murder) so quickly. Columbo's trademark move was to pretend to exit only to stop and say "Just one more thing" and then proceed to point out something that just didn't make sense to him. You could feel the suspect's growing frustration through the whole thing until finally landing on the single big mistake that proves his suspect's guilt. I'm a fan of whodunits as well but I'm such a fan of both Columbo and Monk that I'm looking forward to checking out Poker Face.
shareExactly. The show isn't about solving a mystery for our sake, it's about stardom Natasha Lyonne figure it out.
It's exactly like Columbo, as every review of the show has pointed out, but the standard Columbo formula was based on Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
Rian Johnson has rocked it clearly your still salty about Glass Onion
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