The only thing that really worried me was the ether
My dad loved mysteries, and he wowed us all with his ability to guess whodunnit every single time.
And then when I was around, oh, I dunno, somewhere between 10 and 12, he told me just how easy his little trick was.
Here’s the thing about television mysteries. Unlike real life, somebody picks and chooses what scenes to put in a movie. Unlike real life, it costs extra money to have to film unnecessary scenes that do not advance the narrative. Therefore, there will never be an utterly irrelevant scene, again, unlike real life.
So when, for instance, you are watching an hour long mystery and it shows the characters eating at a restaurant and then leaving and one of them goes back in because he forgot to leave a tip? That’s a clue, that is. While that might happen and mean nothing in real life, it’s only put in the television show for one of two reasons- it is significant to the narrative, or it’s a red herring.
