Thursday, October 31, 2013
Another Line Crossed
We have started watching Murder, She wrote every night before bed. Frankly, I should have known this was coming; after we made the switch from Friends to Frasier and then to The Golden Girls, it was really the next logical step. At this rate, it'll be Little House on the Prairie in another six months.
Anyway, it's magical. Jessica Fletcher is such a nosy old bitch, always calling random police departments and asking to see old murder files and fingerprints and car registrations and such. And everyone totally puts up with her, subject to some mild eye rolling. Actually, that's generally how you can tell she's about to solve the murder -- someone finally tells her she's being ridiculous and then she just launches into it. Occasionally the murderer threatens her with a gun or something when he or she is revealed, but even that is kind of halfhearted. Mainly they're just thrilled she's there, which is especially weird given that she's such a harbinger of death. If she ever showed up at my house, I'd definitely head for the hills.
There are lots of fantastic guest stars as well. Morgan Fairchild, Julianna Margulies, and the guy who played Stan on The Golden Girls are all on the episode that's playing right now. This past weekend they played a Murder She Wrote movie that had Phylicia Rashad and Taraji P. Henson (playing a slave, no less). Angela Lansbury had a dual role in that one, as both J.B. Fletcher and her distant relative from the pre-Civil War South who was always complaining about slavery but never really doing anything about it. You could tell she was playing a different character because she didn't have the sassy glasses.
Spoiler alert from twenty years ago: Morgan Fairchild was the killer. Also, she was wearing a lace dickey.
We have started watching Murder, She wrote every night before bed. Frankly, I should have known this was coming; after we made the switch from Friends to Frasier and then to The Golden Girls, it was really the next logical step. At this rate, it'll be Little House on the Prairie in another six months.
Anyway, it's magical. Jessica Fletcher is such a nosy old bitch, always calling random police departments and asking to see old murder files and fingerprints and car registrations and such. And everyone totally puts up with her, subject to some mild eye rolling. Actually, that's generally how you can tell she's about to solve the murder -- someone finally tells her she's being ridiculous and then she just launches into it. Occasionally the murderer threatens her with a gun or something when he or she is revealed, but even that is kind of halfhearted. Mainly they're just thrilled she's there, which is especially weird given that she's such a harbinger of death. If she ever showed up at my house, I'd definitely head for the hills.
There are lots of fantastic guest stars as well. Morgan Fairchild, Julianna Margulies, and the guy who played Stan on The Golden Girls are all on the episode that's playing right now. This past weekend they played a Murder She Wrote movie that had Phylicia Rashad and Taraji P. Henson (playing a slave, no less). Angela Lansbury had a dual role in that one, as both J.B. Fletcher and her distant relative from the pre-Civil War South who was always complaining about slavery but never really doing anything about it. You could tell she was playing a different character because she didn't have the sassy glasses.
Spoiler alert from twenty years ago: Morgan Fairchild was the killer. Also, she was wearing a lace dickey.
