Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24' - Death and Other Details - Season One

Following A Murder at the End of the World on Hulu, comes another murder mystery series or maybe this is also a miniseries? It does mention on Wikipedia that it has come to an end at the end of its ten episode run.

Death and Other Details created by Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams, stars Homeland vet Mandy Patinkin along with Violett Beane, Lauren Patten, Hugo Diego Garcia, Angela Zhou, Pardis Saremi, and Rahul Kohli.

Commencing mid-January, the season concluded last night in Australia on Disney+. Yes Disney+ the home of Hulu content in Oz. 

What is the Patinkin series all about? Rufus Cotesworth finds himself on a luxury cruise liner when a locked-room murder takes place.

The show obviously leans into some Agatha Christie style TV. While getting inspo from Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, and Philip Marlowe. 

So was this any good? Better than the previous A Murder at the End of the World? Well yes and no. The previous series was a bit more tech versus humans in the middle of nowhere. This was more a cruise in the middle of nowhere to hell with a big ass backstory.

It did lose it's way a bit in the middle, while rushing a double premiere then double (shorter two episode) ending, I felt maybe this should just have been a one and done day drop. All episodes in the one hit. Much like Hulu did with Life & Beth. Which I am now watching and  LOVING sick!

Why is that relevant? Well Disney+ has been struggling to get a hit out there for a while. So it's refreshing to have Life & Beth covering for Echo, and these two rather average whodunnits.

Will Death and Other Details return for a second mystery? My bets are on no, however it did leave you with a wee bit of a cliffhanger. Which I didn't enjoy!

Next up this week, we will say goodbye to Hightown for good.