She put it best in a 1985 New York Times interview: “Mostly, I've played very spectacular bitches”.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 17 September 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
Hallmark runs a mini marathon every Saturday and Sunday. Best part of waking up.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 September 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/z2aocJY.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
A lovely read.
What really drew me to the show, however, was Jessica herself. Brilliantly embodied by Lansbury, she is a sassy, smart and funny older woman who — despite not knowing how to drive — is totally independent. As she travels the world, she seems as comfortable in Cairo as she does back home in Maine. While she has many admirers, she doesn’t have any interest in moving on from her dead husband Frank. She has no children. This is not as sad as it sounds; she’s genuinely happy with life.
Her contentment without kids made me feel more secure about my own choice to not become a parent. When it comes up in conversation, I’m often told I will regret the decision, and some wonder who will take care of me when I am older. But Jessica, who seemed to have an abundance of friends and extended family, showed me that being a senior woman doesn’t mean that you will be alone in the world. Setting aside the dead bodies and the half-serious fan theories imagining her as the real killer in each case, she might be the healthiest, most stable character I have ever seen on television.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
All that and she met Magnum and was able to resist his charms.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:14 (four years ago) link
That reminds me how great Lansbury was in the « Murder on the Nile » movie !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
there's a youtuber called Pushing Up Roses who recaps some 80s and 90s shows including Murder She Wrote. I liked her video on the VR episode.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
there are entire episodes of MSW on youtube, it's so great
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
my theory of this show -- based on the lighting as much as the plots and the casts -- is that jessica fletcher is in hell
― mark s, Friday, 24 January 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
lolthis is one of my favoriet shows of all time i watch it all. the. time
― surm, Friday, 24 January 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
Jessica Fletcher is in hell.
Cabot Cove is the waiting room.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
i have a Cabot Cove tshirt!
― surm, Friday, 24 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
if Jessica is in hell, then she must be the devil
― flappy bird, Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
https://media1.giphy.com/media/eWUi7JIBsWFeE/source.gif
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
Did y'all know that there were four MSW television movies made after the fact? I stumbled across a DVD collection a while back, but I haven't watched any of them yet.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 January 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
Whenever I see the covers of 'Siamese Dream' or 'Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness' all I can think of the Murder, She Wrote title card. It's a very distinctive font that I haven't seen anyplace else.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Knight Rider had it, kinda
Clearly a font of a certain time and place
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 26 January 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
a friend of mine had a rather sheltered upbringing but they watched this show a lot as a kid. as a result, they believed that being an adult involved a regular and ordinary risk of being murdered.
― visiting, Sunday, 26 January 2020 05:00 (four years ago) link
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:28 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i have them all
― surm, Monday, 27 January 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
my god George Clooney and his mullet are in an early episode
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
Jessica Fletcher is in hell.Cabot Cove is the waiting room.― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 24, 2020 12:02 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 24, 2020 12:02 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
― surm, Friday, January 24, 202
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
I always hated the "reveal" ending scenes where she would calmly explain to the killer exactly how s/he did it - killer either breaks down and confesses and she lends a sympathetic "aw, well time to go to jail" expression, or killer tries to take out Jessica only to be stopped by the local cop who she just happens to have brought along who's been hiding in the shadows listening to the killer implicate themselves.
awful.
― Shakey Mo Collier
lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/S1ecece.jpg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:45 (five months ago) link
otm
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:49 (five months ago) link
been laughing at this all morning:
JESSICA:Looking for this? (She holds up an earring)
SOMEONE’S WIFE, YOU FORGET WHOSE:Jessica! No, I was just… I thought I heard a dog, in the bin.
JESSICA:I’m afraid it’s over, Someone’s Wife. You killed Desperate for basically the same mundane, practical reason as one of the male suspects, but you didn’t get much screen time so it still seems like a surprise. I found your earring at the crime scene, and when I give it to the police I’m sure they’ll prove it was yours.
SOMEONE’S WIFE, YOU FORGET WHOSE:Not if I happen to have a gun on me and draw it now, honestly planning to kill an old lady over some fairly flimsy evidence but for some reason wanting to warn her first!
POLICE IDIOT:(Emerging from the shadows) Drop it, Someone’s Wife!
SOMEONE’S WIFE, YOU FORGET WHOSE:Oh for God’s sake. Why do you let her do these things as a weird piece of theatre?
POLICE IDIOT:Her chain of evidence is always hopelessly weak, so we just have to hope you’ll either kill her or confess.
JESSICA:It’s true. I have no reason to mention this beyond simple smarm now, but I never found any earring.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 January 2024 21:06 (four months ago) link
haha irl lol
who wrote it?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 16:22 (four months ago) link