Very derivative, if you've seen one tv show about quirky detective, you've seen them all. This one is trying to be original, by having cutesy elderly woman in titular role, with her female of color protege, who is not smart enough to figure things on her own, but is smarter than all the male detectives, cause she actually understands the supposedly magically amazing main character
except she's not really magically amazing, I'd say you are always ahead of her but then, most episodes actually start with the crime, so even that part is adjusted for audience whose intellect authors do not hold in esteem. You don't have to figure out "who done it", it's obvious from the very first scenes... and then the elsbeth character just latches onto the actual culprit and keeps bothering them, until she finds proof of guilt
and all that while she's not a cop, nor a detective, she's a lawyer, and she's the only one who figures stuff out, all the detectives are constantly blaming wrong ppl... imagine what prisons must look like in this universe, stocked wall to wall with innocent people... sheesh.
except she's not really magically amazing, I'd say you are always ahead of her but then, most episodes actually start with the crime, so even that part is adjusted for audience whose intellect authors do not hold in esteem. You don't have to figure out "who done it", it's obvious from the very first scenes... and then the elsbeth character just latches onto the actual culprit and keeps bothering them, until she finds proof of guilt
and all that while she's not a cop, nor a detective, she's a lawyer, and she's the only one who figures stuff out, all the detectives are constantly blaming wrong ppl... imagine what prisons must look like in this universe, stocked wall to wall with innocent people... sheesh.