Detectives these days are pathetic.
Impressions:
What’s amazing to me about this show isn’t the godawful production values. Yes, you’re seeing those screencaps correctly. It spends the first 50 seconds of the episode staring at a cat. It’s how horrendous it is at the most basic of mysteries. Not even the core ‘supernatural’ one of the show, which is bad in its own way. “I saw a ghost, but I can’t tell anybody about it, except for the entire class.” “Okay, well, I’ll go check it out. Welp, it was just a guy.” Thrilling and enthralling all in one. Not even any twists or turns there. Just girls making faces and a stern dude talking down to them.
But let’s rewind slightly for the introduction to this Sherlock Holmes and describe how he deduced the owner of someone’s dropped wallet among three people claiming ownership. First, he had the girl describe the wallet and then had everybody come up with a story about it. That was enough to eliminate one guy because… his suitcase was already full. Uh, what? Are you aware of how packing suitcases work? Then he deduced that it was a large wallet, therefore must be holding souvenir charms, therefore it must belong to the guy who said it came from some cultural site. The lady hadn’t even gotten a chance to make up her own story yet. Who knows. She could’ve said the same thing. This is the obligatory Sherlock Holmes moment of deduction that proves his insight and intelligence. Solving a basic Lost and Found is not some obscure crazy situation that requires a super genius to solve and you did literally everything here wrong.
