Murder, She Wrote: Hooray for Homicide
August 26, 2014 8:04 AM - Season 1, Episode 5 - Subscribe
Jessica travels to Hollywood when she learns that producer Jerry Lydecker is making substantial changes to the film version of her book. Jessica isn't the only one who is upset with Lydecker, the hard-nosed businessman who has a knack for alienating everyone around him. Who doesn't want that guy dead? Was there a conspiracy around the murder, or something else?
They handwaved Jessica's signing on that contract - it felt like a plot point being raised in an earlier draft where they were going to have her swindled with a fake, because JB Fletcher wouldn't have given up all rights!
The Corpse Danced at Midnight is about a pregnant ballerina as the murder if I remember right, so how they got from there to the Thriller video as a film, who knows.
posted by viggorlijah at 4:56 AM on August 27, 2014
The Corpse Danced at Midnight is about a pregnant ballerina as the murder if I remember right, so how they got from there to the Thriller video as a film, who knows.
posted by viggorlijah at 4:56 AM on August 27, 2014
I was annoyed that Gomez Addams played a small role in this episode when he'll play a (different) recurring character in later episodes. Then again Murder She Wrote is no worse than Law & Order in this regard.
posted by Monochrome at 5:40 PM on August 28, 2014
posted by Monochrome at 5:40 PM on August 28, 2014
They handwaved Jessica's signing on that contract - it felt like a plot point being raised in an earlier draft where they were going to have her swindled with a fake, because JB Fletcher wouldn't have given up all rights!
But she was so green! And from such an honest community, where no one would try to swindle anyone else. By the time she gets to Hollywood, she is more cautious about such things, and will never do that again.
I was annoyed that Gomez Addams played a small role in this episode when he'll play a (different) recurring character in later episodes. Then again Murder She Wrote is no worse than Law & Order in this regard.
I like to think they're actually personal re-imaginings. After tanking in Hollywood, Ross Hayley moves to Cabot Cove to become a real estate agent and/or plague Miss Jess, changing his name to throw off creditors, confusing Jessica in the process. After all, she's quite well known, and has traveled quite a bit, so she can chalk up a familiar face with a strange name to having met so many people in the last few years. With that kind of lifestyle, you're bound to come across a few doppelgangers, right?
posted by filthy light thief at 1:05 PM on August 29, 2014 [2 favorites]
But she was so green! And from such an honest community, where no one would try to swindle anyone else. By the time she gets to Hollywood, she is more cautious about such things, and will never do that again.
I was annoyed that Gomez Addams played a small role in this episode when he'll play a (different) recurring character in later episodes. Then again Murder She Wrote is no worse than Law & Order in this regard.
I like to think they're actually personal re-imaginings. After tanking in Hollywood, Ross Hayley moves to Cabot Cove to become a real estate agent and/or plague Miss Jess, changing his name to throw off creditors, confusing Jessica in the process. After all, she's quite well known, and has traveled quite a bit, so she can chalk up a familiar face with a strange name to having met so many people in the last few years. With that kind of lifestyle, you're bound to come across a few doppelgangers, right?
posted by filthy light thief at 1:05 PM on August 29, 2014 [2 favorites]
But she was so green!
Yeah, she signed that contract before personally confronting four cold-blooded murderers. Who knows what that would do to her worldview?
posted by Monochrome at 6:53 PM on August 29, 2014
Yeah, she signed that contract before personally confronting four cold-blooded murderers. Who knows what that would do to her worldview?
posted by Monochrome at 6:53 PM on August 29, 2014
Except you would think as an ex-CIA operative she would know better about deceit and guile....
posted by viggorlijah at 8:15 PM on August 29, 2014
posted by viggorlijah at 8:15 PM on August 29, 2014
Wait, not even one comment about Mary Ingalls as Eve Crystal?
posted by mochapickle at 7:40 AM on September 3, 2014
posted by mochapickle at 7:40 AM on September 3, 2014
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Has anyone made the cinematic version of The Corpse Danced at Midnight, featuring the neon graveyard, and a psychotic killer who uses a flamethrower on a group of breakdancers? You know, "a combination of Halloween, Porky’s and Flashdance." Because that thing would be amazing.
Jess is literally a GIANT in hollywood, towering over most of the other actors in this episode.
In the book of Jessisms, "Just because the Almighty gave mankind a taste for lobsters, doesn’t mean he gave lobsters a taste for being boiled alive" is up there, followed shortly by "I don’t want a cup of coffee, I want justice!"
posted by filthy light thief at 8:43 AM on August 26, 2014 [1 favorite]