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Originally Posted by pdurrant
A good rule of thumb for TV murder mysteries is that the most well-known guest actor is the murderer.  |
That, to me, is
the worst of late. it's bloody impossible NOT to know who it is, within the first five minutes. I wish that they'd decide to use unknowns for all guest roles, for this reason. It doesn't seem to matter if it's network or something like Silent Witness (not network here in the US, but certainly it is in the UK); it's always just dead bloody obvious and very frustrating.
It's equally frustrating in tepidly-done mystery novels, but TV is such a wasteland of decent programming to begin with, the "guest star dunnit" thing is just one more problem.
Hitch