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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 285547" data-attributes="member: 33">This is a great review and I agree with your analysis of this episode. It&#039;s another one of my favourites of the reboot series and it ticks every box in my list of what makes a great Columbo episode (meticulously planned murder, interesting murderer and preferably played by a well known actor, great gotcha, nice rapport with Columbo, etc).Although this would still be a good episode if the murderer was played by a daytime soap star, having an high profile actor like George Hamilton provides additional interest. He is also a top class actor and is very good in this episode. The supporting cast is also strong and it&#039;s always good to see Penny Johnson on TV as I&#039;ve always liked her since she appeared in The Larry Sanders Show.&nbsp; The clues in this episode are also top drawer, in fact they&#039;re up there with some of the best Columbo clues ever. There is one more episode to go which has another of my all time favourite Columbo clues, but I&#039;ll say more on that when you review that one. (How&#039;s that for a teaser!)I thought the scene in the sex shop was a lot of fun. Often in New Columbo, the humour seems too forced but here the scene with the other guy in the raincoat was genuinely funny and naturally developed out of the situation that Columbo was in. A really good episode all round. When people say the reboot series isn&#039;t as good as the original, this is one of the episodes I suggest they watch to challenge that opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 285547, member: 33"] This is a great review and I agree with your analysis of this episode. It's another one of my favourites of the reboot series and it ticks every box in my list of what makes a great Columbo episode (meticulously planned murder, interesting murderer and preferably played by a well known actor, great gotcha, nice rapport with Columbo, etc). Although this would still be a good episode if the murderer was played by a daytime soap star, having an high profile actor like George Hamilton provides additional interest. He is also a top class actor and is very good in this episode. The supporting cast is also strong and it's always good to see Penny Johnson on TV as I've always liked her since she appeared in [I]The Larry Sanders Show[/I]. The clues in this episode are also top drawer, in fact they're up there with some of the best Columbo clues ever. There is one more episode to go which has another of my all time favourite Columbo clues, but I'll say more on that when you review that one. (How's that for a teaser!) I thought the scene in the sex shop was a lot of fun. Often in New Columbo, the humour seems too forced but here the scene with the other guy in the raincoat was genuinely funny and naturally developed out of the situation that Columbo was in. A really good episode all round. When people say the reboot series isn't as good as the original, this is one of the episodes I suggest they watch to challenge that opinion. [/QUOTE]

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