I collected The Three Cousins Detective Club books, vowed to read the library's Boxcar Children mysteries collection and inhaled Encyclopedia Brown. I made treasure hunts for my sisters and created clues for them to follow. I watched Diagnosis Murder, Murder She Wrote, Mattlock, and so on.
More recently, I've read many of Agatha Christie's, and watched NCIS and NCIS LA. And even more recently my sister introduced me to Castle.
(When I began listing all these books and shows, I realized I might have a problem... it's hard to ignore it with all these links...)
But I don't watch every mystery show out there. I have some restraint. Plus, there are some I can't stand.
I was young when I started watching Diagnoses Murder, and I remember distinctly the episode that freaked me out and made me stop watching. In that particular episode, the victim had been killed through a poisoned energy drink.
But I don't watch every mystery show out there. I have some restraint. Plus, there are some I can't stand.
I was young when I started watching Diagnoses Murder, and I remember distinctly the episode that freaked me out and made me stop watching. In that particular episode, the victim had been killed through a poisoned energy drink.
It's the same reason I'm having difficulties deciding if I like the show Castle. It's too real.
In NCIS and NCIS LA they're dealing with military problems, and terrorists, and things very far removed from my everyday life. When the energy drink gets poisoned, when the neighbor or husband murders, when a civilian tries to do the right thing and gets killed, it's just too real. It feeds my imagination too much, and I can freak myself out.
There has to be at least one clean show out there that's about solving mysteries, not murders.
Is that too much to ask for?
In NCIS and NCIS LA they're dealing with military problems, and terrorists, and things very far removed from my everyday life. When the energy drink gets poisoned, when the neighbor or husband murders, when a civilian tries to do the right thing and gets killed, it's just too real. It feeds my imagination too much, and I can freak myself out.
There has to be at least one clean show out there that's about solving mysteries, not murders.
Is that too much to ask for?
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