There’s a similar idea at work in The Widow, and Unusual Suspects, although most people would call it fate. I’ve written before about interconnectedness, and how I’m obsessed with the idea that everything you do connects you, no matter how tenuously, to everyone else in the world and everything they do. The answer, I think, is that it is the inevitability that interests me. Sure, I like his style, his prose, and I’ll come back to that later, but I like his plots too, even though they are, almost without exception, absolutely predictable. It’s a question that applies to my enjoyment of Georges Simenon’s novels too. Yet, despite the familiar formula, despite the inevitability of the whole thing, I still enjoy it. Some of the outcomes are surprising, but, all in all, it’s still pretty formulaic stuff I mean, if you know, by virtue of the title of the programme, that the murderer isn’t going to be the most obvious suspect, then one needs only to keep an eye on the unlikeliest to find your man. It’s a true crime documentary series, the premise of which is that murders are not always perpetrated by the most obvious candidates. Recently I’ve been watching a programme called Unusual Suspects.
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