04-27-2025, 11:01 AM
Watched The Residence which is a shondaland cosy whodunnit in the style of the other cosy whodunnits that are making a bit of a resurgence at the moment - its pretty good!
Nice framing device (the murder was at the white house, and it was sorta covered up so its the congressional hearings about what happened), a great cast, the murder makes sense and also theres lots of things uncovered you can spot for yourself if youre paying attention.
The lead detective character is well acted (its crazy eyes from Orange Is The New Black), but as a character is kind of boring (I think the Knives Out films suffer from this too) outside of 'is a great detective because they're written that way'.
Its nice to see a bit of a resurgence of the genre recently
Nice framing device (the murder was at the white house, and it was sorta covered up so its the congressional hearings about what happened), a great cast, the murder makes sense and also theres lots of things uncovered you can spot for yourself if youre paying attention.
The lead detective character is well acted (its crazy eyes from Orange Is The New Black), but as a character is kind of boring (I think the Knives Out films suffer from this too) outside of 'is a great detective because they're written that way'.
Its nice to see a bit of a resurgence of the genre recently
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