Audiences of every age level sure do love a good mystery.
The idea of following likable characters in solving a mystery gives the illusion that the audience members are putting the pieces together alongside them, and that’s a narrative device that can easily be translated into a variety of mediums, be it video games, films, or shows.
In recent years, the genre has seen something of a revival in the entertainment world.
There’s been at least a good baker’s dozen of films and shows based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, director and actor Kenneth Branagh recently revived Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022), and of course, there are filmmaker Rian Johnson’s wholly original and decently comedic adventures of Benoit Blanc in Knives Out (2019) and its upcoming sequel, Glass Onion (2022).
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