I've been recording and watching the series, Murder, lately on SpikeTV. When I first saw it coming, I imagined it might have a chance of being a relatively interesting show. It's set up like most "reality" shows. Two teams of three people compete to solve actual crimes previously solved by real detectives.
The crime scenes are portrayed just as they were when police arrived on the scene - with bodies, evidence and all the accompanying gore. The teams, consisting of people from all walks of life, are expected to collect the evidence, develop theories, and solve the crime by presenting their theories to a real Texas detective. As with so many of the reality shows, there is plenty of drama to go around when personalities clash. No two people ever have the same perceptions and when theories collide, so do people.
Just like several million other people, I enjoy watching CSI and other crime dramas. These shows demonstrate that crimes can be solved so easily when in actuality it isn't quite as easy as it looks. It is kind of fun to watch some of these contestants fumble around and get their ass chewed a little bit when Tommy LeNoir, the Texas detective, points out their mistakes.
Aside from a few things like the limited amount of time they are given to collect evidence from the crime scene, the limited information they have to start out with and the melodramatics when they disagree, it's not a bad show. To be honest, it is kind of interesting to see if you can solve the crime before they do. The only problem is that I have all kinds of questions I think they should be asking - and they don't. For example, in the last episode one of the suspects, a convicted felon who was seen in the vicinity of the crime scene, had an alibi. But both teams never asked if his alibi checked out. What's more, the detective never said if it did or not. It's hard to rule suspects out when you don't have all the information. I'll keep watching though.
Have you watched it? What do you think?
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