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Halloweentober Day 22

Murder, She Wrote

I could go over the more Halloween-adjacent episodes, such as The Witch's Curse (S8 E12), or Night of the Headless Horseman (S3 E11), or one of my favorites, the obligatory vampire episode The Legacy of the Borbey House (S10 E3), but I thought it more appropriate to discuss the overarching plot of the show in its entirety, and that is that Jessica Fletcher is in Hell!!!


She has to be in her own private hell. How else do you explain that nearly every single person or acquaintance Jessica knows, every family member or movie star or who the hell ever she knows gets involved in a murder or is murdered? Every place Jess visits whether for vacation or to help a friend in need invariably turns into a whodunit. I get it, the show wouldn't be very entertaining without the murder in Murder, She Wrote. But, if one human must entertain all that death, then surely you would be in hell, either mental or literal.

She is either A., killing people and ingeniously setting up others for these murders on the fly, or, B., living in a private hell where everyone around her will die by tragic, deceitful and often violent ways, and she must endure this until she is the last, in which she will be born again ad infinitum.

Think about this for a minute. I, and I would wager that you also, do not know anyone who has been murdered. Am I right? Well in the first couple seasons of MSW a character has his head blown off with a shotgun, another is thrown from a hotel balcony, and another is beaten to death. Others are electrocuted, drowned, hanged. Some are stabbed while others are strangled. Think about this: Jess has known just about every victim here! She has known more people who have been violently murdered than I will know in my lifetime! Jess, I hate to break it to ya, but you're in hell!

This is hell!

Thus Murder, She Wrote has made it to my Halloweentober viewing for 2024. This show has always been comfort food for my soul, but now I'm completely horrified by the obvious plot twist of terror that was hidden from me this whole time!

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