A positive aspect of this film was the interesting set of characters, featuring the popular podcast host MacKenzie "Mack" Miller. She has built a large following from her dynamic amateur sleuth hour as she investigates true life crime.
Mack's relationship with her husband Henry is stormy, and she slowly comes to know his checkered past when his prom date, Miss Lilly Brooks, died on prom night! Mack's studio producer is the ebullient June Kim. And the all-too-helpful neighbor Oliver Turner, a sensitive cop, rounds out the cast.
A significant liability of the film was its slow pacing. The show needed faster rhythms within the scenes and editing out of the long pauses. There was also some "over" acting with spontaneous outbursts not thoughtfully motivated from within.
There was some decent scripting in Mack's attempt to revive a cold case of the so-called Blue Ribbon Killer, which had plagued the Clarksville community around the time Henry and Oliver were in high school together. If she can solve the riddle of the Blue Ribbon Killer, Mack can possibly resolve as well the dilemma that led her husband to be accused of murder.
There wasn't much suspense to the film or the achievement of a style appropriate to an Agatha Christie "whodunit," But there was an imaginative denouement which at least ended the film on a strong note.
Mack's relationship with her husband Henry is stormy, and she slowly comes to know his checkered past when his prom date, Miss Lilly Brooks, died on prom night! Mack's studio producer is the ebullient June Kim. And the all-too-helpful neighbor Oliver Turner, a sensitive cop, rounds out the cast.
A significant liability of the film was its slow pacing. The show needed faster rhythms within the scenes and editing out of the long pauses. There was also some "over" acting with spontaneous outbursts not thoughtfully motivated from within.
There was some decent scripting in Mack's attempt to revive a cold case of the so-called Blue Ribbon Killer, which had plagued the Clarksville community around the time Henry and Oliver were in high school together. If she can solve the riddle of the Blue Ribbon Killer, Mack can possibly resolve as well the dilemma that led her husband to be accused of murder.
There wasn't much suspense to the film or the achievement of a style appropriate to an Agatha Christie "whodunit," But there was an imaginative denouement which at least ended the film on a strong note.