― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
She's kinda like the pianist Marian McPartland. Born in England but been here so long, the accent isn't as prominent. But maybe I like that it comes off as this anachronistic aristocratic-New-England accent. Like the woman with the big glasses from those Old Navy commercials (I know, she was an editor for Vogue). Or the grandmother on Gilmore Girls. God, I love it.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Aristocratic New England accents: C/D?
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
On. The Fence. Ow.
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love the William Windon character in Cabot Cove ("JessicAH!!!") but the big thing I remember about this show is how the endings were either "my friend's name is cleared and I'm happy!" freeze-frames of her face or a "my friend actually committed the murder and I'm very sad" face.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
"i was just baking this layered cake and i... layers! oh james i think i just worked out who killed julie and how they burried her..."
― thuddd (thuddd), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Shows like these that I love:
ColumboQuincyDiagnosis Murder
I've recently done the Meltzer on the following ("if you think long and hard enough about all that legitimacy then you can turn it into nice old usable illegitimacy" paraphrase):
Starsky & HutchMagnum
Which means I have more viable watching options now.
That I hate:
Murder She WroteDoctorsPetrocelli
That I'm OK with:
CHiPS
― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Still struggle to get my head around the fact that Angela Lansbury is George Lansbury's daughter.
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 April 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
rockford files
and petrocelli rules! also who was that polak guy, baranek or something
― zemko (bob), Friday, 11 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan i., Saturday, 12 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Mind you, it's really pretty rubbish. But I do like a bit of Dick.
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Saturday, 12 April 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like Monk a great deal. The star actor is great, and it's clever stuff.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 April 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 12 April 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
It may be possible that Bert Convy guest-starred in every show mentioned in this thread.
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
CLASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIC
― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
For some reason when I was 12 I used to watch MSW all the time. Now I don't think I could sit through more than ten minutes - the plots move slower than Monk.
― snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Cabot Cove sacres the fuck out of me. There's like, what, 300 people in town and somebdoy gets whacked every week.
― Michael White, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
So in other words, CLASSIC when there were only four TV channels and no Internet, DUD-ISH now I can sit around downloading pr0n all day.
Yeah, it's like Midsomer.
― snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
haha but jessica travels, too! so the murders aren't all in cabot cove
― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Mandy Moore's playing Jessica Fletcher in the M. Night Shyamalan movie.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
never saw a single episode
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder why the police never notice that? "Lieutenant, there's been a murder here in usually crime free <insert location here>, but luckily crime writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is here! She always just happens to turn up when there's been a murder. Hey wait a minute..."
― snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Remember the episode with Harvey Feinstein? He played a cartoonist. His "friend" was the murderer.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I really really really wished they had ended this series by outing Angela Lansbury as a psycho serial killer who went around offing people and then framing innocents using her mystery-writin' skills.
alas.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
-- snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:05 (1 hour ago) Link
i know! they never ask for her help, she's just always there. "well, this could be a murder..."
― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
It's sort of like the way Columbo spends an entire episode irritiating the person who just happens to turn out to be the murderer. Maybe he sees the pre-title sequence or something. Or if it's an episode with Robert Culp as guest star just arrest Robert Culp. I also like the way the theme music at the end of the show is simply called "Mystery Movie Theme"!
― snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:58 (sixteen years 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, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
aww it's not awful it's just the formula! i know, it's incredibly quaint and uneblievable
― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
she was incredibly nice to C-list actors who needed dough.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
GUYS SHE HAS A TYPEWRITER: CLASSIC.
Old lady sleuths: generally have some classic.
― Abbott, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
ya
― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"I used my k-tog knit/purl shills to prove the golden ratio was used by this killer and therefore the murder weapon must be placed in the first...first...second..third...fifth...EIGHTH empty tile in his wall."
― Abbott, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
killer either breaks down and confesses and she lends a sympathetic "aw, well time to go to jail" expression
lol yeah: the old lady smugness
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/213fd9ed6f9cc3be940f98a9d89794d4/tumblr_mgr1yi1ZMl1r68d1so1_500.gif
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
Black women all look alike, Shakey?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
lol I guess those two look alike enough for me to have thought they were the same person for like the last 5 years oops
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
apparently I am not alone
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
lol
Office, dayNEEDLESSLY DICKISH BUSINESSMAN:With Desperate out of the way, this merger will definitely go through! Yes, I had a motive to kill him alright.IRRELEVANT CHARACTER WHO LOOKS CONFUSINGLY FAMILIAR:I reply, but say nothing of substance and never become relevant to the plot, although I look enough like someone who is that you’re no longer completely sure of what’s happening.Lovely house, dayJESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:What’s that?JESSICA:Hm? Oh, just Desperate’s phone records from the night he died. Do you know, he didn’t make a single call to his wife that night? Don’t you think that’s odd?JESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:I like you but no.JESSICA:All the same, I’m going to keep looking through these records.JESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:Well, this isn’t at all the right context for this phrase, but a rolling stone gathers no moss.JESSICA:Moss… that’s it!JESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:That’s what?JESSICA:The missing piece of the puzzle!JESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:What puzzle?JESSICA:The puzzle of who killed Desperate Businessman!JESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:It’s getting weird that you won’t just tell me what you know.JESSICA:I have to get to the police station immediately! (leaves)JESSICA’S LOVELY FRIEND:Jessica, for fuck’s sake!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Rue McClanahan is in this awful 1985 episode as a librarian, which we know because she wears Tootsie glasses.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 September 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
I missed this: http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/murder-she-wrote-30th-anniversary-netflix.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 September 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
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
― Shakey Mo Collier
― 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 (four months ago) link
otm
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:49 (four 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