Whodunnit?

I love whodunnits, and I love this show because of that. This show is just chock full of clues, and allows the viewer to play along, trying to figure out exactly what happened. It's not as much of a mind teaser as Agatha Christie, but it's entertaining.

On the other hand, I could do without all the reality show nonsense; the way they make the contestants act as though these are real murders, the reaction shots edited in to create a story other than the one that actually happened.

I wish there were an alternate version of this show, in which it was filmed, not to be typical reality fare, but to show how people really reacted, show them making fun of the cornier bits and talking about the murders in terms of solving a game rather than a real murder, and without people screaming at fake bodies and the like. I would like a show that just trusted that the central mystery was enough.

But to be fair, some people love this nonsensical reality-show style (I assume, considering how much of it there is), and I'm watching it in spite of it, so the producers seem to have come up with a workable formula to get two types of viewers engaged.

I was really excited about this show when I heard about it because I love whodunnits. However, it put me off the minute the contestants started speaking - reminded me too much of silly reality shows with the pointless self-centered drama. It had more of "the bachelor" feel than a murder mystery. The guests seem rather annoying and more focused on the prize than actually solving a murder and getting into the details. It would have been much better if they knew what they were there for rather than get all melodramatic. I'm guessing it's only a matter of minutes before they get personal and start complaining about the others and making personal attacks or talking about themselves. It doesn't seem like a intriguing game at all! For once, a murder mystery succeeded in getting me to not care who did it. Sorry, but this was so disappointing because I guess I was hoping for an intelligent "Cluedo" revival.

Whodunnit is such fun to watch! It's a Reality Clue-like murder mystery show in which a different "detective/guest" gets "murdered" on every new episode. It's up to the remaining contestants to solve how the "murder" took place. They split up and choose one of three places to help them solve the crime. They choose between "Last known whereabouts", "The scene of the crime", and "The morgue" to gather information and discover clues. Since each contestant can only visit one place, everyone is relying on the others to share information. This is where it gets tricky: you don't want to give away all of the information you have, but you need information from the other contestants. People tend to fudge things a little at this point. After everyone tries to dig information out of each other, they have to individually present their "case" to a camera in a room by themselves. The contestants that do well with solving the crime are presented with a card that says, "Safe". Those that don't do so well are presented with a card that says, "Scared". Those with a "Scared" card are eligible to be eliminated in a (fake) but gruesome way which creates the next crime to be solved. I cannot stress enough that this is a guilty pleasure show, don't take it too seriously, relax and just enjoy it!

I enjoyed this show, mainly because of its unique concept: CSI reality show without having to actually kill the contestants (duh...). I wish it'd had more life (unless that was the original plan to just make it one season long), so if there's any chance for a revival, I'm there!

Among us sus lol.

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Us.

Sussy.

(It was red tho he vented)