The tradition of the gentleman detective goes back nearly 200 years to the beginning of crime fiction, so there’s an easy shorthand to recognize what kind of character Mandy Patinkin is playing when he makes his entrance in the first episode of Death and Other Details. Patinkin’s Rufus Cotesworth is frequently referred to as the world’s greatest detective, and he fits neatly into the tradition of characters like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Death and Other Details eventually delves into elements of Rufus’ backstory, but one of the show’s strengths is that it knowingly plays with the conventions of the detective story to draw the audience in right away.Creators and showrunners Heidi Cole McAdams and Mike Weiss have cited Agatha Christie as a major influence on Death and Other Details, and the story has a distinctively Christie-like set-up. It’s not nearly as economical as Christie’s work, though, dragging its mystery out over 10 hour-long episodes and diluting some of its focus as it explores various members of its large ensemble. Its best moments are sharp and often funny, but it’s weighed down by its convoluted plotting.Imogene encounters Rufus again on a 10-day voyage on a luxury cruise liner, an all-expenses-paid trip for the Colliers and their friends and associates, to celebrate the impending retirement of patriarch Lawrence Collier (David Marshall Grant) as CEO of the family company. The Colliers have booked a restored vintage ship for the journey, which means that when businessman Keith Trubitsky (Michael Gladis) turns up murdered in his room, everyone on board is a suspect. The boorish Keith was doing business with Collier fails on Tripp (Frasier’s Jack Cutmore-Scott), and he seems to have angered nearly everyone he encountered in his few days on the ship.
The tradition of the gentleman detective goes back nearly 200 years to the beginning of crime fiction, so there’s an easy shorthand to recognize what kind of character Mandy Patinkin is playing when he makes his entrance in the first episode of Death and Other Details. Patinkin’s Rufus Cotesworth is frequently referred to as the world’s greatest detective, and he fits neatly into the tradition of characters like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Death and Other Details eventually delves into elements of Rufus’ backstory, but one of the show’s strengths is that it knowingly plays with the conventions of the detective story to draw the audience in right away.
Creators and showrunners Heidi Cole McAdams and Mike Weiss have cited Agatha Christie as a major influence on Death and Other Details, and the story has a distinctively Christie-like set-up. It’s not nearly as economical as Christie’s work, though, dragging its mystery out over 10 hour-long episodes and diluting some of its focus as it explores various members of its large ensemble. Its best moments are sharp and often funny, but it’s weighed down by its convoluted plotting.
Imogene encounters Rufus again on a 10-day voyage on a luxury cruise liner, an all-expenses-paid trip for the Colliers and their friends and associates, to celebrate the impending retirement of patriarch Lawrence Collier (David Marshall Grant) as CEO of the family company. The Colliers have booked a restored vintage ship for the journey, which means that when businessman Keith Trubitsky (Michael Gladis) turns up murdered in his room, everyone on board is a suspect. The boorish Keith was doing business with Collier fails on Tripp (Frasier‘s Jack Cutmore-Scott), and he seems to have angered nearly everyone he encountered in his few days on the ship.
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