Episode 1 - "A Fashionable Way to Die"
This is another good one written by Donald Ross (and, incidentally, also taking place in Europe). Jessica to Paris to support - you guessed it - an old friend. This time the old friend is a fashion designer whose line is about to make its big debut; except the Eurotrash loan shark who has been funding her suddenly demands a bigger cut, or the debut ain't happening. Guess who gets murdered.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Murder, He Wrote (Season 3, Episodes 20-22)
Episode 20 - "The Cemetary Vote"
Wow, another nasty one. Jessica goes to Idaho after hearing of the death of a friend, and walks right into another rural hornet's nest. This show really loves to portray small-minded small town types who lord over "out of towners" and "do gooders" until they finally get their just comeuppance.
Wow, another nasty one. Jessica goes to Idaho after hearing of the death of a friend, and walks right into another rural hornet's nest. This show really loves to portray small-minded small town types who lord over "out of towners" and "do gooders" until they finally get their just comeuppance.
Murder, He Wrote! (Season 3, Episodes 17-19)
Episode 17 - "Simon Says, Color Me Dead"
What a terrible episode title! Reductive in the worst way, and not even really amusing. As it implies, we have an artist named Simon who is, indeed, found murdered in his studio. The artist, Simon Thane (which, for once, sounds believable) is a personal friend of Jessica going back many years, and she attends a dinner party in his honor on the very night of the murder - imagine that!
What a terrible episode title! Reductive in the worst way, and not even really amusing. As it implies, we have an artist named Simon who is, indeed, found murdered in his studio. The artist, Simon Thane (which, for once, sounds believable) is a personal friend of Jessica going back many years, and she attends a dinner party in his honor on the very night of the murder - imagine that!
Friday, June 3, 2016
Murder, He Wrote! (Season 3, Episodes 14-16)
Episode 14 - "Murder in a Minor Key"
This is the episode that made me think Murder, She Wrote had really made it. Although the ratings were really high at this point, and they were luring bigger guest stars than ever, it's when the show felt comfortable to start taking narrative chances that I thought it had turned the corner.
This episode is both ambitious and a little odd: Jessica Fletcher appears only has a sort of narrator, breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the viewer, describing the plot of her newest novel, Murder in a Minor Key. The remainder of the episode features the fictional characters of her book as if they were real, and so Jessica doesn't actually solve the crime.
This is the episode that made me think Murder, She Wrote had really made it. Although the ratings were really high at this point, and they were luring bigger guest stars than ever, it's when the show felt comfortable to start taking narrative chances that I thought it had turned the corner.
This episode is both ambitious and a little odd: Jessica Fletcher appears only has a sort of narrator, breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the viewer, describing the plot of her newest novel, Murder in a Minor Key. The remainder of the episode features the fictional characters of her book as if they were real, and so Jessica doesn't actually solve the crime.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Murder, He Wrote! (Season 3, Episodes 7-13)
Episode 7 - "Deadline for Murder"
Ah, how quaint - a murder of a newspaper publisher. Newspapers, remember those? Jessica is friends with an old-school hard-workin' reporter with the improbable name of Haskell Drake, who is fired by the heartless new tabloid monster who bought the newspaper. In fact, he's not just fired, he has a full heart attack (the publisher just barks "Get some photos of this!"), and Jessica comes to visit him in the hospital.
Ah, how quaint - a murder of a newspaper publisher. Newspapers, remember those? Jessica is friends with an old-school hard-workin' reporter with the improbable name of Haskell Drake, who is fired by the heartless new tabloid monster who bought the newspaper. In fact, he's not just fired, he has a full heart attack (the publisher just barks "Get some photos of this!"), and Jessica comes to visit him in the hospital.
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