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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 281687" data-attributes="member: 33">The premise of this episode is similar to one of my all time favourite episodes, Any Old Port In The Storm, in that the motive for the murder is the victim trying to make unwelcome changes to a family business of which the sibling does approve.Old Fashioned Murder is an interesting episode which I like a lot more than many other people, mainly because I think Joyce Van Patten is outstanding in this. She is so good as the cold, heartless, controlled murderer while also making the character sympathetic and likeable. I agree, I loved her performance. Making a cold-blooded killer likeable is difficult to pull off successfully.The double murder was brilliantly conceived and well executed. The emotionless way in which she carried it out made it all the more shocking. I didn&#039;t like how the writers went on to make her frame her niece for the crime as the original concept of the 2 victims killing each other was strong enough that it didn&#039;t need another character thrown into the mix. This was one of the problems I had with the episode: there was just a bit too much going on at times and the old adage of less is more would have been a better approach.The gotcha was clever but all circumstantial and would never be enough to convict but it was enough to elicit a confession from the murderer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 281687, member: 33"] The premise of this episode is similar to one of my all time favourite episodes, [I]Any Old Port In The Storm[/I], in that the motive for the murder is the victim trying to make unwelcome changes to a family business of which the sibling does approve. [I]Old Fashioned Murder[/I] is an interesting episode which I like a lot more than many other people, mainly because I think Joyce Van Patten is outstanding in this. She is so good as the cold, heartless, controlled murderer while also making the character sympathetic and likeable. I agree, I loved her performance. Making a cold-blooded killer likeable is difficult to pull off successfully. The double murder was brilliantly conceived and well executed. The emotionless way in which she carried it out made it all the more shocking. I didn't like how the writers went on to make her frame her niece for the crime as the original concept of the 2 victims killing each other was strong enough that it didn't need another character thrown into the mix. This was one of the problems I had with the episode: there was just a bit too much going on at times and the old adage of less is more would have been a better approach. The gotcha was clever but all circumstantial and would never be enough to convict but it was enough to elicit a confession from the murderer. [/QUOTE]

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