Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[prabe]

Jessica Fletcher was a serial killer. There, I said it.

AND SHE GOT AWAY WITH IT

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Midsomer, Kembleford, or Saint Marie

Three places close to my heart.

I don’t know what it is, but British murder shows just have wittier, more convoluted writing.

 

[TiQuinn]

Three places close to my heart.

I don’t know what it is, but British murder shows just have wittier, more convoluted writing.

Total comfort viewing for me. When all else fails, give me a locked room murder at an old country estate with very posh people.

 

[trappedslider]

Jessica Fletcher was a serial killer. There, I said it.

in her defense, she just murder people, she didn't do anything else. On the other hand she did totally frame others.

 

[MoonSong]

cozy murder shows

I know it's a thing, but it still sounds as something you'd make up in parody.

 

[TiQuinn]

in her defense, she just murder people, she didn't do anything else. On the other hand she did totally frame others.

Her worst crime was totally gaslighting people into thinking they did it and then looking at them so…disappointedly.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Her worst crime was totally gaslighting people into thinking they did it and then looking at them so…disappointedly.

That cruelty is what she savors most!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Total comfort viewing for me. When all else fails, give me a locked room murder at an old country estate with very posh people.

Stuff like the kinky mycologist who asked another character how the mushrooms tasted before awkwardly revealing his inevitable demise would almost NEVER appear on an American murder mystery show.

(Midsomer Murders, “Destroying Angel”, S4, E2)

 

[Alzrius]

I'm getting sick and tired of "lazy" being a charge thrown at particular concepts that people don't care for in fiction.

I can understand being burned out on a given idea, but "lazy" is a characteristic of something's presentation rather than being inherent to the idea in question. It's a commentary on the execution, not the underlying notion. Moreover, not being able to tell the difference between the two is, ironically enough, a particularly lazy form of criticism, utilizing the same boring lack of nuance that's being complained about in the first place.

 

[payn]

I'm getting sick and tired of "lazy" being a charge thrown at particular concepts that people don't care for in fiction.

I can understand being burned out on a given idea, but "lazy" is a characteristic of something's presentation rather than being inherent to the idea in question. It's a commentary on the execution, not the underlying notion. Moreover, not being able to tell the difference between the two is, ironically enough, a particularly lazy form of criticism, utilizing the same boring lack of nuance that's being complained about in the first place.

There are definitely a few blanket "im writing this off with a criticism term to sound smart" statements out there folks like to use with frequency. Often, without any context, which yeah, is pretty lazy itself.