Alright, the British have given the King of Science a new murder mystery to rate and judge-- Magpie Murders. Several weeks ago AP destroys the Broadchurch mystery as illogical. Will Magpie Murders fair better???

So the King of Science has a new mystery murder to see if it has any logical coherence. AP is not expecting much, for in all the world of mathematics, there is no math professor alive today when can speak of the truth of conic sections-- the slant cut of cone is a Oval, never the ellipse.

But, now, AP may just find a mystery novelist who has a marble of logical intelligence that beats out all math professors with their 1/2 to 1/3 marble of logical brains.

Now, already this 1st episode of Magpie Murders is not going logical. Maybe Alan Cummings should have prepared the viewer with the idea that 2 stories were unfolding at the same time-- two histories, for I sometimes confused the detective Pundt for the author Alan. Maybe if Mr. Cummings had told us there were 2 stories running parallel, would have made it better.

AP, your grader of murder mysteries shown on TV. Recapping the huge flaw of Broadchurch-- the lady detective knew her husband was not at home during the murder yet the writer has her not question her husband--- outright F-grade on Logic. Will Magpie Murders fail dismally also??

AP

Alright, the British have given the King of Science a new murder mystery to rate and judge-- Magpie Murders. Several weeks ago AP destroys the Broadchurch mystery as illogical. Will Magpie Murders fair better???

So the King of Science has a new mystery murder to see if it has any logical coherence. AP is not expecting much, for in all the world of mathematics, there is no math professor alive today who can speak of the truth of conic sections-- the simple truth, and yet many High School students are smarter than the math professor in geometry-- the slant cut of cone is a Oval, never the ellipse. Simple experiment of drop a Kerr lid inside paper cone, or visualize a slant cut in cylinder is truly a ellipse, so a cone cannot be an ellipse.

So, well what does that prove about math professors? They are dumber than many High School students. And likely math professors are far dumber in logic than a mystery writer of novels. Provided the Magpie Murders pan out.

But, now, AP may just find a mystery novelist who has a marble of logical intelligence that beats out all math professors with their 1/2 to 1/3 marble of logical brains.

Now, already this 1st episode of Magpie Murders is not going logical. Maybe Alan Cumming should have prepared the viewer with the idea that 2 stories were unfolding at the same time-- two histories, for I sometimes confused the detective Pundt for the author Alan. Maybe if Mr. Cumming had told us there were 2 stories running parallel, would have made it better.

AP, your grader of murder mysteries shown on TV. Recapping the huge flaw of Broadchurch-- the lady detective knew her husband was not at home during the murder yet the writer has her not question her husband--- outright F-grade on Logic. And AP ceased watching Broadchurch. Will Magpie Murders fail dismally also??

AP

Alright, I am going to stop watching Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. The deal with murder mysteries is that they should be 1 hour long only, and really foolish to play the public with 6 hours of one story. What Mr. Horowitz has here is an illogical Science Fiction Murder Mystery, a new category of either sci-fi or of a murder mystery.

I could not stomach Broadchurch recent murder mystery for the illogic of the lady detective knew her husband was "out the night of the murder" and too dumb to question him "where the hell were you". And something like that is not worth 6 or 12 hours out of my life to watch some hornswaggled made up b.s.

Magpie Murders is the same genre-- hornswaggled made up b.s. of illogical plot. In the first episode alone makes no logical sense-- but then, is murder itself ever logical? Or is all murder that of insanity? No, I would say that some murders are logical. But that is a different story, not here to discuss.

A murder mystery is bad when the viewer -- can see the author in the illogical scenes, for once the mind asks a question-- why did the author do it that way, then the entire story is trashed.

In the first episode-- as Susan asks-- why not sleeping pills instead of jumping off a roof and smashing your bones. But also, why jump off a roof holding a cell-phone, as we see Alan's cellphone while his sister was visiting.. Would a cellphone survive a fall, and the man dies? So the solicitor comes around and rings Alan, and the signal is around the side where the tower is that we find the cellphone with Alan dead. Can a cellphone survive but the person dies, is the question of logic?

So no, AP will not watch any further the Magpie Murders. I have more important things to do in life than throw away 5 hours more.

As for the follow on mystery of "Annika" with its many episodes, no way, the British have actors with heavy accents-- very hard to make out what they are saying. Nothing more annoying in a murder mystery than losing half the dialogue. Turn off.

AP recommendation-- BBC and PBS-- too much murder mystery, that is illogical-- give us more documentaries or NATURE-- where we learn something, not hornswaggle away the hours of our life.

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