A positive review. It was interesting. The plot was good, the making was too. The detective was different from our usual detectives, she’s quiet, silent, loves birds, but sees everything. I liked that they used titles of real crime stories for the chapters, and titles that perfectly matched the story. I would like to see another, with people Cordelia knows around her. It was a bit difficult at first to warm up to her because she had nobody around who knew her and could help us know her as well.
8 episodes
1-The fall of the house of Usher- è stato un suicidio. White house. The ‘chief Usher’, who should have retired, decided to stay another two years but got killed instead. Metropolitan police has jurisdiction, and has the best detective in the world already on site: Cordelia Cupp, a consulting detective. Harry, advisor to the President, insists it’s a suicide and to keep it all a secret because there’s an important State dinner downstairs, with important Australian men. Cordelia sees many suspicious things, like no knives, so how did he cut his wrists? And not enough blood, and the shirt he’s wearing is not his own… when she asks the president to lock everyone in until she’s talked to all of them, he refuses, but when she notices that one of the Australians is wearing AB Winter’s shirt, finally he agrees.
2-Dial M for murder- delitto perfetto. The shirt change happened because this David guy had sex outside with the chef, hurt his nose and therefore bloodied his shirt, and when AB saw it he proposed an exchange, since he was wearing a gilet that would cover it. Cordelia talks to everyone, and everyone w different things, they all talk well about AB… and at the end we see that the pastry chef Didier saw AB dead and went away with the knife. Probably because it was his.
3-Knives out-cena con delitto. Didier eventually admits he saw AB’s dead body and the knife, and took it away because he didn’t want to be involved. Still, to Cordelia Cupp that’s just another interesting piece of the picture, she doesn’t stop investigating to focus only on him. At the end, it seems that Sheila was one of the two people outside while David and the chef were having sex.
4-The last of Sheila-un rebus per l’assassino. Sheila is the butler, who likes to drink and likes her job, but doesn’t like the new president and his husband, she loved the previous one. She lies a lot, but Cordelia knows what happened. Sheila went up to the third floor but drank the alcohol instead of giving it to the old lady. She entered the game room were AB was found, but didn’t see him because he was killed elsewhere and then brought there.
5-The trouble with Harry-la congiura degli innocenti. Cordelia talks to the president’s brother, who is some kind of troublemaker, and then there’s two people who snuck into the white house not invited, they crashed the party. AB wanted them locked in a room until the end of the night, as per protocol. He was worried Harry planned it waiting to catch him breaking protocol - if he let them go - and then fire him. And then there’s a story when AB is accused of spying on Harry. Wrongly, but Harry got angry.
6-The third man-il terzo uomo. The third man is a third person who crashed the party after the Motta couple. Senator Bix thinks he’s a killer hired by Harry to kill AB.
Nobody wanted her to keep going, so they let the people free to go, and Cordelia went away. Senator Bix gives a speech to the press encouraging the third man to come forward and tell his story. Cordelia is away birdwatching, but she’s sent stuff to watch the proceedings so she calls and has them ask the right questions… and it comes out this third man saw another man dragging the body.
7-the adventure of the engineer’s thumb-l’avventura del pollice dell’ingegnere. Cordelia comes back because Harry is giving her free reign of the white house and 48 hours to find the truth. The president is not there anymore. A long talk with Bruce the engineer, a talk with Lilly who is redecorating every room. She heard AB arguing with the housekeeper Elsyie, a nice girl. AB wanted to fire her because she lied about her past, it seems she has a criminal record, old stuff, and she met Bruce who saw in what state she was. Then he saw her coming out of the yellow room with a candlestick and he saw AB dead. She also says she found him dead, and they both think the other did it, Bruce because he saw her with the candlestick, and Elsyie because he told her that he took care of it. I guess he moved the body to protect her. They are in love.
8-The mystery of the yellow room-il mistero della camera gialla. Finally Cordelia speaks to the committee to explain it all and how she figured it out. Now Tripp: that night he was pissed that his brother didn’t let him attend the party, so he got… drunk? high? anyway, he went into room 301 and passed out, and woke up next to AB’s dead body, so he dragged the body into the game room. He used paint to cover the blood in room 301, and sees AB’s keys - actually Bruce’s, but he thought they were AB’s - so he went to put them in his pocket and sees what seemed a suicide note - but it was a piece of his diary - so he took Didier’s knife and cut his wrists. But AB was not killed in room 301, he’d been dead 20 minutes when Tripp moved him. Kylie found blood in the Lincoln bedroom, because AB’s body was there for a shirt time, dragged there from the yellow oval office before being moved to room 301. Of course Bruce moved the body thinking he was protecting Elsyie. He carried the body upstairs into room 301 where he lost his keys, that Tripp put in AB’s pocket. Now they’re al in the yellow oval room, to find out who did it. Could someone come in and kill AB before Elsyie and Bruce saw the body? - and once again, as it often happens, and has happened in this show, there’s much talk of: why looking for something else, why, when you already have likely suspects right here?… I mean, seriously? Nobody cares that they might not be guilty? disgusting. So, AB met someone in the yellow oval room, wanted to poison him, but AB only took a sip and poured the rest in the vase next to him, and that’s what ruined the flowers. So the person with him took the big clock and hit him with it. There was a hidden door there that this person used to escape, that has been closed now. Jasmine ordered the door to be sealed under Elliott’s orders, the first gentleman, but Lilly admits she gave the order to seal the door pretending to be Elliott, because she was there and saw AB dead after Elsyie and Bruce killed him. Lilly had already ripped a piece of AB diary in anger, and now used it to protect them, gave it to Bruce who put it in AB’s pocket… but Cordelia opens the door and finds the clock full of Lilly’s prints, because she hated the house and all of them. And because AB knew she had stolen money, all her tricks. She’s arrested, case closed. Good. She was the one creating troubles everywhere, for everyone.
AB Winter is Giancarlo Esposito
Stephen Roos is Julian McMahon
Kylie Minogue is herself.
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