Magpie Murders
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queer_scribblingEpisode 1
Aired: 16 Oct 2022 | Watched: 21 Oct 2022
Recap.
While Alan Conway is not presented as an overly likable character, I do appreciate that he's an interesting character for a whodunnit story. He's found on the ground next to a tower, and there's an assumption that he committed suicide, but really, there's a whole long line of people who could have possibly pushed him.
Part of why my family's much more receptive to this show [as originally contrasted to another show] is probably the call back to older murder mysteries and whodunnits like Agatha Christie's work.
Alan Conway is an author of eight best-selling books about Detective Atticus Pünd, and he supposedly sent off his latest manuscript for 'Magpie Murders' to his publishers. Susan is his editor and finds out that the last chapter didn't make it to the publishing company; in 1955, Detective Pünd finds out he has terminal cancer (mirroring Alan's diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer outside the book), so this book is intended to cover Pünd's last case. (She says, "A whodunnit isn't worth the paper it won't be printed on if you don't have the end", or something like that.)
Several in-book characters are played by present-day character actors to help confirm that different characters are based on people Alan knows and/or interacts with to some degree. (For example, Detective Pünd's assistant is based on Alan's partner James. Technically, ex-partner with the leaving happening in this episode.) This doesn't guarantee that solving the in-book case will automatically solve Alan's own Susan-presumed murder, but it does create natural interweaving points for the parallel stories to bump into each other (Susan thinks she sees Pünd while she's getting ready to drive off to Conway's mansion to find the missing chapter).
Aired: 16 Oct 2022 | Watched: 21 Oct 2022
Recap.
While Alan Conway is not presented as an overly likable character, I do appreciate that he's an interesting character for a whodunnit story. He's found on the ground next to a tower, and there's an assumption that he committed suicide, but really, there's a whole long line of people who could have possibly pushed him.
Part of why my family's much more receptive to this show [as originally contrasted to another show] is probably the call back to older murder mysteries and whodunnits like Agatha Christie's work.
Alan Conway is an author of eight best-selling books about Detective Atticus Pünd, and he supposedly sent off his latest manuscript for 'Magpie Murders' to his publishers. Susan is his editor and finds out that the last chapter didn't make it to the publishing company; in 1955, Detective Pünd finds out he has terminal cancer (mirroring Alan's diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer outside the book), so this book is intended to cover Pünd's last case. (She says, "A whodunnit isn't worth the paper it won't be printed on if you don't have the end", or something like that.)
Several in-book characters are played by present-day character actors to help confirm that different characters are based on people Alan knows and/or interacts with to some degree. (For example, Detective Pünd's assistant is based on Alan's partner James. Technically, ex-partner with the leaving happening in this episode.) This doesn't guarantee that solving the in-book case will automatically solve Alan's own Susan-presumed murder, but it does create natural interweaving points for the parallel stories to bump into each other (Susan thinks she sees Pünd while she's getting ready to drive off to Conway's mansion to find the missing chapter).
