Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 14, 2021 6:22:12 GMT
It's rather remarkable that Death has managed to pull off such major cast shifts over ten years, including replacing the central character with some regularity, without compromising the character of the show itself. I have to conclude the key to it is strict adherence to a familiar and comfortable formula, regardless of the specific dramatis personae: the eccentric, fish-out-of-water DI, whose deductive processes are often inscrutable to his team; their alternating attitudes of patient solicitude to puzzlement to eye-rolling exasperation; the final-act gathering of suspects for the review-and-reveal. All very comfy indeed. O maven of mystery and honcho of homicide: did that last device originate with Christie, or go back to Conan Doyle...or some other author of whom I may never even have heard?