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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 284913" data-attributes="member: 33">Again another great review of a Columbo episode.This summaries how I felt about this episode. It&#039;s not bad but it just wasn&#039;t Columbo. If they are going to play with the usual formula of the show they need to keep enough elements of how the show normally is so it doesn&#039;t feel entirely alien. I don&#039;t think they did that on this occasion.I felt this episode more than any other was written considering how it would play on TV with commercial breaks. Constantly returning to the funeral with Columbo getting soaked in the rain and a voice over leading to a flashback to tell some of the story was clearly a re-introduction to the show after an ad break. I found this format annoying and it felt more like a structure to facilitate selling soap powder and toilet roll than to entertain the audience. The title Rest In Peace Mrs Columbo also seemed to be chosen to look eye catching in a TV listing magazine or on a trailer for the show. Gives everyone the impression that she had died so we have to tune in to see what happened to her and maybe we would finally find out more who she was but it was all a cheat on the audience. It was like the TV equivalent of clickbait.My other bug bear with the funeral was why were all these people at the funeral when at best they only had a peripheral connection with Columbo and more likely never knew the couple at all.Yes and wouldn&#039;t he have made an interesting murderer in a episode? You can imagine him having a Adrian Carsini type rapport with Columbo. All very good point s. I can forgive plot hole if it leads to making a show more entertaining or interesting but here it did neither and was just another cause for irritation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 284913, member: 33"] Again another great review of a Columbo episode. This summaries how I felt about this episode. It's not bad but it just wasn't Columbo. If they are going to play with the usual formula of the show they need to keep enough elements of how the show normally is so it doesn't feel entirely alien. I don't think they did that on this occasion. I felt this episode more than any other was written considering how it would play on TV with commercial breaks. Constantly returning to the funeral with Columbo getting soaked in the rain and a voice over leading to a flashback to tell some of the story was clearly a re-introduction to the show after an ad break. I found this format annoying and it felt more like a structure to facilitate selling soap powder and toilet roll than to entertain the audience. The title [I]Rest In Peace Mrs Columbo[/I] also seemed to be chosen to look eye catching in a TV listing magazine or on a trailer for the show. Gives everyone the impression that she had died so we have to tune in to see what happened to her and maybe we would finally find out more who she was but it was all a cheat on the audience. It was like the TV equivalent of clickbait. My other bug bear with the funeral was why were all these people at the funeral when at best they only had a peripheral connection with Columbo and more likely never knew the couple at all. Yes and wouldn't he have made an interesting murderer in a episode? You can imagine him having a Adrian Carsini type rapport with Columbo. All very good point s. I can forgive plot hole if it leads to making a show more entertaining or interesting but here it did neither and was just another cause for irritation. [/QUOTE]

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