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A murder detective show where you already know who did it and how should never work but somehow it does, perfectly.
by dazc 5y ago
A murder detective show where you already know who did it and how should never work but somehow it does, perfectly.
- andi999 5y agoYes. I think the real ingredience is that the culprit is rich and has a beautiful house and Colombo is the underdog bringing them down.
- realce 5y agoIt's totally the rich people going down.
- altcognito 5y agoNot just rich but often “smart people”. They might be professors or scientists etc.
- SCNP 5y agoI think my favorite aspect of the show is how there are still societal remnants of the fancy, Victorian era customs and Columbo uses breaking social norms to put people off-balance.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoI loved his old car. I think it was a Volvo? The show reinforced what I believed at the time--money dosen't buy happiness, and don't judge people by how they look. Now--as an aging person--a bit of money would make life easier?
- okoslaatoo 5y agoPeugeot 403 cabrio https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/columbos-car-it-was-rare-and-ratty-1959-peugeot-403-cabriolet https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/columbos-car-it-...
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- philistine 5y agoBeautiful for the era. Most of the houses on that show are a riot.
- bbx 5y agoYes, the viewer has way more information than Columbo, so should be able to solve it even more easily. And yet it’s still extremely hard.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI think the show would be improved if it did not use that device. I feel like it was almost like a detective show for dummies. You didn't have to (get to) match wits with the detective (or is it the writer?, ha ha) but did get to enjoy some justice porn, watch the guilty squirm. I love the character of Columbo and he would lose nothing if they followed the more traditional detective format where all the bits revealed throughout are tied together in the end.
- leephillips 5y agoBecause, after all, who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?
- uniqueid 5y agoAccording to Hitchcock it just means Columbo is a Suspense show, rather than a Mystery: https://youtu.be/-Xs111uH9ss https://youtu.be/-Xs111uH9ss
- wastedhours 5y agoI used to try and miss the start of episodes so I wouldn't know exactly who did it. It's usually very easy to guess throughout in any case, but it's still an enjoyably journey even if you're almost 100% clued in.