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Bosch on Amazon Prime and Murderville on Netflix.

The original MAGNUM PI

I quite love "Only murders in the building". It is both funny and provides lots of twists. But its a show you enjoy best bundled up with hot cocoa.

Comfortwhodunit

Perry Mason on HBO. I just rewatched season 1 from 2021, new season out in Spring 2023.

The Afterparty

On Amazon, new show called Three Pines. Every 2 episodes covers one murder investigation. But it takes place in Canada. It’s pretty good, with a plot line of missing/murdered indigenous women that carries through the season.

Jack Reacher on Amazon prime - its funny, great action and based off solid source material

It’s Canadian but the first 13 seasons are available on Hulu: Murdoch Mysteries. Essentially a police procedural but set during the turn of the century Toronto. It’s so good. Cheesy in parts but also sweet in others. Also plenty of celebrity cameos in characters and actors playing characters. William Shatner guest starred as Mark Twain in an episode.

I don't have any suggestions, but I do feel your pain. Most Murder-of-the-week shows, I can guess the culprit pretty easily b/c of the how its written. And its getting to be the same with a lot the season long mysteries.

I thought The Flight Attendent was great when I saw it, but then I realized Wednesday followed the exact same template.

Have you watched Elementary? It’s a US procedural about Holmes and Watson that usually is less simple than some comparable series.

Columbo?

Bonus points for Lucy Liu

Mapleworth Murders is absolutely hilarious and a good whodunnit. Incredible cast, but relatively unknown since it's a Roku show

Based on the books by Louise Penny!

I’ve just started this and didn’t realise there was a 2 episode arc!

It's not really possible to catch on until episode 4 -5 to be fair!

Rian Johnson has a new week to week Columbo’esque show coming to Peacock next month. I forget the title but Natasha Lyonne is the lead which is pretty outstanding.

Came here to say this! Excited for the new season.

Maybe Coroner - Canadian. Investigating why people died.

Pop figures

I tried this, couldn’t get through the first episode. Does it pay off satisfyingly if you stick with it?

I agree, also with each episode being 30 minutes, it's a quick watch.

Wow I love these books!! I’ll have to watch. I’m so glad I stumbled upon this thread.

thanks will check it out!

Poker Face!

Thanks !

ah yes i forgot about that one. thanks it is a very good show! steve martin , gomez and martin short are freaking incredible in this. the only part i do not like is that the famous characters so far in season 1 and 2 ( sting and amy )have nothing to do with the murder mystery at all. just filler. but this show reminds me of a tv version of the movie clue. it a blast, short but good!

thanks but did not like it, it was very easy to predict and it was more about the drama then the actual mystery. it falls into the same category as the series i mentioned. like undoing, little big lies etc.

jack reacher is awesome, cannot wait till season 2, but a mystery series i would not really call it. same as jack ryan series. it is very enjoyable to watch and i am actually watching season 3 of jack ryan at the moment, but you already get pretty fast the hang of it what is going on. specially with usa army forces helping out :)

lets see if rian follows the same pattern as he did in glass onion and first knive out movie. i have not seen an episode of that serie which is called pokerface, but based on the trailer i just saw. i am going to predict this. there is a man behind it. all the diversity is just noise, cancel it out look who is the biggest white man asshole and you got a winner. now we just need to wait till the series is done and see if i am right! :)

i tried bosch but did not like it at all, will check out murderville thanks for the recommendation!

never watched elementary. going to check it out. thanks!

i watched all of those already. they were good for that time. same as murder she wrote

Goodluck! Have you ever watched Pysch? It's a comedy but at it's heart it's a who done it show too.

I’ve watched it through a few times now and it’s definitely one of my favourite villain of the week type procedural shows. The Mentalist can also be entertaining.

that is why i switched over to korean shows. their shows are very deep. sometimes to much drama, but story wise they really know how to keep you engaged. also not many are easy to predict as well, which i really like.

flight attendant was just bad. wednesday i figured out the first part at episode 4 at episode 6 i had it all figured out. it was a good show though. i liked it much more then i thought. but you are right it follows a pattern.

i watched those when i was young :)

thank you going to check it out! never heard of it. but always open for new stuff.

thank you for the recommendation, this looks precisely the show i am looking for.

Big fan of Rhys, best show in the past 20 years is the Americans, IMO. PM is “murder (or mystery) by numbers” and there is some campiness to it, especially on 2nd watch, that I had to look past to enjoy but I think that has a lot to do with trying to pay homage to the original series. Not the best show out there but it has great acting, and a compelling story while adhering to noir and the aesthetics. I definitely look forward to S2.

I agree on Treason. I binged it this week and it became background noise while working. Incredibly poor writing and plot.

A fun mystery series is the recent and little fan-fared The Resort. The wife from Treason is the main character, and she’s hilarious, IMO. All the characters are interesting, it’s a good ride, it’s funny, and I’ll admit, the ending was touching.

There is a new show “Poker Face” starting Jan 23. It from Rian Johnson, of “Knives Out”, among others. He describes it as a murder-of-the-week, ala “Columbo” and “Murder She Wrote”. Stars Natasha Lyonne. I’m looking forward to seeing it.

I did find the payoff pretty satisfying, but if you couldn't get through the first episode then maybe it's just not for you. I will say that the show basically flips genres almost every episode, so you might start to like it more.

Maybe I’ll give it another shot, might not have been in the right mood when I watched initially

iZombie

Well no one tuned into Wednesday for the mystery. We just wanted deadpan goth shenanigans, and we got that in spades.

Read this earlier so I went home and binged the short series. Absolutely hilarious. Thank you for the recommendation!