Examiner par laduqesa

This was heading for a solid eight or nine stars until Season Three. I don't know if the scriptwriters changed or if the producers decided on a format reset but the one they chose, namely that we see who the baddie is at the beginning rather than being revealed at the end is a formula I particularly dislike. I really used to hate the "Colombo" detective series because of this schema. It takes part of the pleasure out of a mystery crime thriller series, to wit, being able to try to guess who the miscreant is. Fortunately things went back on track in Season Four.

I actually watched the whole lot back to back over a week. Even with the deficiencies of the third season, there was enough tension, character development and plot to hold the attention. I also liked the long episodes of fifty eight minutes.

I will say one thing about the dubbing though - it was far less professionally done in Season Four than the previous ones - I watched in Swiss German with English subtitles. My German is reasonable but Swiss is completely beyond me.

My gripes here are just niggles though. I really do recommend this series and all of its seasons.