Every day Gordon and I have dinner at around 3 or 4 pm and watch true crime shows on the couch. Sometimes we also nap. But we usually stay awake for at least one episode.
What it’s like to watch true crime shows with Gordon.
5 minutes into the show
Narrator: …a mystery that shocked this small town…
Gordon: She’s having an affair with the pastor, and she and her brother killed her ex-husband.
Me: Maybe it wasn’t her brother.
Gordon: It’s her brother.
35 minutes later.
Brother: She drove the truck and I shot him.
Gordon: That’s a .38 shell casing he’s holding. The uncle killed him.
Me: Why?
Gordon: The uncle seems like the kind of a guy who would carry a .38.
30 minutes later
Narrator: The uncle was arrested and charged with first degree murder…
Gordon: They should check the shoulder for bruises. If he fired a shotgun five times in a row, there would be a bruise.
Me: ….
Detective: So I asked him to take his shirt off, and there was a bruise on his right shoulder, and he said he walked into a door and he always shoots left-handed…
Gordon: Mhm. Yeah, he does. ::chuckle::
Gordon: She’s having an affair with her husband’s nephew.
Me, half-asleep: You don’t know that.
Gordon: Her husband in in mid-sixties, she is 51, and the nephew is 47, lives on his own, and is financially secure. Why else would he be helping them with the bakery?
30 minutes later.
Detective: So she instigated her daughter’s boyfriend to kill the ex-husband and buried his body in the woods, and then they killed the current husband, her ex-husband’s nephew, and buried his corpse on the ex-husband’s property, so when he is found, they could blame the ex-husband for his nephew’s murder…
Me: O_O
Gordon, yawning: What did I miss?
Me: Umm… they killed the ex-husband.
Gordon: Did the daughter’s boyfriend do it?
hahahahahahahaha! that is so great!
Gordon should be a detective!
My success rate is about 50-50. I don’t understand peoples motives so much but I do get plot strategy so it comes down to is the murder based on personality or logic. I have been reading a lot more murder mysteries series since covid started. I read based on how much I enjoy the characters. If I like them, then I read the series even if I know who done it. If I can’t connect to them, I don’t. So it comes down to the writing. With IA, I frequently have no clue and I love the characters, so I get the best of both. Turkey day, we ate at 2 and snacked our way through a game of dominoes and frequently bad puns told by all. It was great.
My husband’s a retired cop, so I feel your pain.
I don’t normally watch TV, but I do occasionally watch movies with my daughters. At one point some years ago I said, “She had liposuction.” And lo, it turned out she did. My daughter was totally shocked that I knew that, but it seemed pretty obvious to me.
I love crime shows. the vast information that i know about how to kill poison and get caught is pretty much useless unless im going to write a murder book. But ive also learned that people are really stupid, greedy and got what they deserved .Boggles the mind sometimes.
Ilona, so is Gordon’s first name really Mycroft? 🙂
Gordon is scary sometimes.
Yeah, but can he see around corners and predict the future?
Our husbands must have come from the same mold, My husband is a criminal defense lawyer and watching any kind of show with him can be annoying. He also becomes exasperated with movies and shows because he can guess the entire plot in the first five minutes. I remember in Woody Allen’s Matchpoint, when Scarlet Johansson was murdered, he said, “They’re going to pin it on a random black guy.” That being said, he was on several episodes of Snapped as an expert, and a female friend is on every episode too.