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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 278669" data-attributes="member: 23">Season Four (1974-75) An Exercise In Fatality <img src="https://i1.wp.com/columbophile.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fatality-4.jpg?resize=571%2C430&ssl=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 525px" /><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcD8XXdUQAA0m14.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 525px" /> We’re well and truly entrenched in featureville at the moment. This is the third of six consecutive two hour films, which without adverts adds up to around 95 minutes per pop. Quite an investment at the moment, but well worth it. An Exercise In Fatality is an episode so rich in careful and thorough plot detail I feel a little overwhelmed at the thought of writing about it. Because of that I’m not going to say too much about the story itself, which is just packed full with clever details and needs to be seen. It feels like a particularly dark story. Despite his tanned perfection and outward charm, there’s something particularly seedy about Milo Janus. The frozen smile hides a smug superiority. The piercing blue eyes seem to look right through other characters. He’s played very convincingly by Robert Conrad. Similarly, the gym might seem like a new and aspirational environment, but there’s something unnervingly otherworldly about the way it’s presented here, especially during the murder sequence which takes place after hours. In its favour, though, is the clientele, which appears to mostly be upper middle aged gentlemen with very ordinary physiques. I’ve never really been one for attending the gym anyway, but this does look like the kind of place I’d feel comfortable, as opposed to the usual Hollywood type gym full of iron men who are all wearing expensive leisurewear. Indeed, Columbo himself joins this gym. I must confess it took me several moments to recognise him as I’m so used to seeing him in his raincoat. It’s great fun to see reactions to the fitness trend, which I’d guess was quite a new lifestyle at the time - even in California. Columbo’s lifestyle - with his cigars and coffee and lack of exercise - is the antithesis of Janus’s and so he’s perfectly equipped to look with amazement at being given tablets for his breakfast along with a glass of carrot juice which he mistakes for orange juice that’s gone bad. continued...</blockquote>

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