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Read this way, the network whodunit is like the mainstream post-9/11 superego, telling us that the system may make mistakes but it works. Evil is knowable, crime solvable, justice swift and attainable. The Wire and The Shield arrive like an unconscious (and just as American) response: It's O.K. to doubt, to question, to acknowledge the bad among the good. Decades of cop shows have schooled us on our Miranda rights, chief among them the right to remain silent. Cheers to these cable cops for exercising their right to make some noise...
...FASHIONED. Like Law & Order, CSI is an easy-to-take, bite-size whodunit. Someone dies, the good guys jump on the case, and after a twisty, fast-paced hour, someone's off to jail--case closed, time for pie! There are simple motives and no dithering about crooks' unhappy childhoods--it's Dragnet with DNA. "It's totally a show from the '60s and '70s," says star (and producer) Petersen. "That's what I love about...
...mystery shows have a lower bar, and this one's whodunit is appropriately ridiculous, innovative and suspenseful. Cahill makes Mike a smoother Encyclopedia Brown, poking his nose into the town's strange goings-on with as much believability as could be hoped for. And, most important, he's way better looking than Angela Lansbury...
...light stuff like mysteries and romances, I found the liveliest discussions in the "books" section of America Online. Postings are minimal, but the live chats are fun. I joined the Whodunit on Wednesday group, which reads a new mystery every week. When I confessed during a chat that I hadn't finished a Jonnie Jacobs book they were discussing, they kindly talked around the ending so as not to ruin it for me. I felt so indebted that I stayed up until 3 a.m. to finish the 400-page thriller by Stuart Woods that they were planning to discuss next...
...down some very bad folks. He soon learns that the worst baddies are in the Paris police force. Inspecteur Richard (TchEky Karyo)?who kills for profit, for revenge and, sometimes, just for fun?frames Liujian for murder, then realizes that his patsy has a copy of a videotape showing whodunit. Liujian hooks up with an American, Jessica (Bridget Fonda), whom Richard has forced into prostitution and drug addiction, and whose daughter Richard is holding as collateral. He's mean! But not resourceful enough to overcome the fighting skills and wire work of one determined Chinese...