• TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I suspect that was part of the idea. It’s a murder show taking place in NYC, but still limits the murders to a single building. It’s the extreme version of this quirk of the genre.

      Major difference is it’s one(ish) murder per season, rather than one per episode.

  • fading_person@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    That’s now how it happens in a small town. Two long-time friends who have the habit of putting chairs in front of their house and pass the night chatting and observing the vicinity would have seen the guy who everyone already suspects to be a criminal walking in a strange way and would call the local gossiper, who tells them who the probable victim is, because there was a heavy discussion the last day between them, and then they alert the local police chief, who is their relative.

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    9 days ago

    “How did you manage to figure out who the culprit was?”

    “The method of elimination. Literally.”

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Job security eh.

      Now I understand why nobody pleads guilty.

      Actually nah, in these shows they always come clean Scooby Doo style when someone has even an inkling of suspicion against them, as if they have definitive proof sitting in court.

      YES, I DID IT BECAUSE… I WAS SCARED, OKAY?

  • ooterness@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Miss Fisher got tired solving all these murders at home, so she goes on a beach vacation. Guess what happens? (It’s murder.)

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    One reason why I will always find something more productive to do when my wife wants to watch her detective stories. These shows are so incredibly boring. So, so, so boring.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    makes me think of that detective conan spinoff anime that acknowledges the bullshit amount of crime mostly in one town and people are horrified at the idea of getting off the train at that station

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I think during the musical episode of Psych they refer to their town as the murder capital of the country.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      9 days ago

      Allow me to tell you of the “Unwitting Murder God” theory: Namely that murder, despite being a concept, not aware, alive or sentient, nonetheless wants to be near certain individuals who are otherwise innocent. It creeps from, or along with the god into someone nearby, sending that person - or occasionally animal - just mad enough to do the deed.

      It may also want to be known. Written about, you might say.

      Locking the god up in a regular prison wouldn’t do any good. Murders would begin to happen around wherever they were incarcerated, and it wouldn’t be limited to the prison walls.

      Putting them on a remote island might work, but the radius of effect would undoubtedly grow and grow. Murder must feed. Also, you’re going to need people to get the god to that island. Only one person - now a murderer - will be coming back from that trip.

      Trying to kill the god also wouldn’t work. They’re a god. Like all unwitting gods, something would inevitably cause the death to happen to someone else. Out of universe, we call this “plot armour”.

      The only real way to win here is to convince the god of their godhood and hope they have the good conscience to do something about it themselves. And then hope that when they die - which may be a long time off if they choose to try the island alone - that there isn’t a Pandora’s box kind of thing going on.

      At best, the godhood might just transfer to someone else.