Mystery Show Mystery

As you might all know, I have been doing nothing this summer, which is to say I have been so bored that I have been doing everything I can get my hands on. I've been reading books, programming games I had dropped months ago, and watching every netflix that comes in the house. This means that I have gotten to see several mystery shows, including one that Mom and Dad recently started called "Inspector Lewis." The entire plot of the episode I watched was rather unsavory since it entailed rape and adultery and stuff so I'm not going to go into details. Suffice to say at the end, I had no idea who the rapist was.

Mom and Dad say as a general rule that British mysteries are better than American mysteries because they are more complex. There are so many rabbit trails on top of each other that it is much harder to figure out what had happened. However, I for one say there are too many rabbit trails when you aren't sure at the end who exactly was guilty. I looked up the plot synopsis online and I found out the rapist was one of the murdered parties. Too many murders definitely clog up the clarity machine. I remember Poirot would always explain the entire murder process and how he figured it out before making an arrest. I say that Lewis could take some pointers.