Re:Columbo: an origin story (2018)
by throw0101a on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:43AM
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The short-ish lived Veronica Mars was quite good a having both a season long story arc, but having self-contained mysteries as well. Some episodes leaning more one way or another, but there was usually some mix of both.
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Re:Columbo: an origin story (2018)
by HideousKojima on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @09:33AM
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The X-Files did a goodish job alternating between standalone episodes and overarching plot. Roughly 2/3rds of episodes were standalone monster of the week episodes, while every third episode or so was about the conspiracy to help aliens colonize Earth. Also occasionally stuff in the standalone episodes had effects in later episodes (for example Scully's dog is from a person who died in a standalone episode)
Re:Columbo: an origin story (2018)
by at_a_remove on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:13PM
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Yes, that's one of the things that impressed me most about the show before it went off the rails. You had your season-long mystery, some multi-episode questions, and then your single episode mysteries.
It also has one of the best father-daughter relationships I've seen on screen.
I have noticed that quite a lot of how Veronica Mars "worked" got shifted over into iZombie.