r/murdershewrote

I giggle every time.

Most of the time the show operates within the cozy mystery realm, where even if Jessica was friends with someone who gets killed during the episode, the freeze frame at the end is usually her smiling with someone else. (Example in S2: Actor friend asks her to bid on a diary that belonged to a starlet that apparently committed suicide, actor friend gets killed, but Harry McGraw shows up and helps her crack the case.)

However, there were two others in S2 that end pretty sadly:

1. Jessica goes to visit Grady in the city and encounters a gal named Liz who used to be her student and for whom she had great aspirations. It turns out that Liz worked in a brothel for some time before hooking up with a rich older guy, who ends up killing her because she had started seeing an old boyfriend again.

The freeze they do on Jessica's face at the end of the episode as she's standing there alone is so sad.

2. The episode that ends John Astin's arc on the show by having him become a murderer and almost kill Jessica.

I'm glad they threw in some heavy themes every now and then, but those were tough.

Are there any you all watch that don't give you a cozy mystery feeling but instead feel rather depressing?

Ive watched Murder She Wrote growing up since the beginning. I love to watch it now.

I was wondering if anyone catches themselves getting emotional/nostalgic while watching.

I so desperately miss those times. I miss when there were barely any cell phones, I miss the times where she types on her typewriter before all the computers came in, I miss the way we dressed back then, and I miss the Hometown feel from the Cabot Cove episodes..

May sound silly, I just wish someone would have told us that those times and great shows like Murder She Wrote were ending..I would have hit the Pause button and never hit play.

I believe this takes place in a hotel room/hallway, Jessica is confronting the killer and when they move to attack her, a friend who is an older man with silver/gray hair steps in to defend her. He does some silly defensive arm motions to fight and is immediately struck down in a comical way.

This has become an inside joke between my grandma and I and we have been dying to watch it again! Please help lol

I can't figure out which episode this is: the murderer is actually the front desk man who overheard/saw a plot or money or bribe?

As with most all of us, I absolutely loved the Episodes based in Cabot Cove.

Does anyone know if they have just those episodes on DVD together?

If not, they'd make a fortune from doing so!