Here's a niggle. Seeing a tv programme advertised that's clearly the result of fusing two or three random words together and hoping they stick long enough to make sense(celebrities doing a quiz on a rollercoaster might be one). A popular example of the formula used to be (personal tick)+(detective)=detective show. Modern equivelants would be Dexter, Monk, etc. As we all know, however, the real daddy of the genre would be Murder, She Wrote, in which Angela Lansbury would turn up at a dinner party or a reunion or whatever, before someone would murder someone else for something. Angela would then figure out who it was, why it was, when it was, and then go home.
I could never tell, though, if what we were watching was just one of Lansbury's stories (involving herself as herself, in a terrifying murder filled autobiographical fan-fiction), or whether she just wrote off screen, using the legions of murders she witnessed as creative fuel. In which case, did she deliberately seek out murders to write about? Was she so good at it that she could sense when a murder would take place (eschewing many a social engagement on the basis that nothing was popping up on her blood-lust radar)? Or had she simply learned to live with her horrible ability to generate murder in otherwise pleasant social situations by turning it into a revenue stream (life giving you lemons and all that)?
Obviously, Lansbury herself, after 'witnessing' so many murders, would be the prime suspect, so maybe what we're getting in each episode is her jovial, happy-go-lucky alibi. Who knows? You're welcome to watch all 11,716 episodes of MSW to see if I'm right. To be honest, I'm aware all of the above has been said before, but I really just needed to get my head together. So many questions, so many questions...
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