Who Shot Otto Mueller?

This Estonian production was interesting enough to watch over a period of 24 hours. Production values and acting were good, characterisation somewhat less so. Unfortunately, many of the attendees at the birthday party were caricatures of what they could have been with a little more thought.

I liked the format of the series, each episode of which which proceeds from interviews of the people present in the Manor when Otto Müller was shot and segues into the events of the preceeding day or days from their point of view.

There were the usual red herrings, of course, and one of them even had me thinking that the most unlikely person (who hadn't been at the dinner perty) might have done it. However, it was possible to narrow the murderer down to one of two people but I wasn't sure exactly which one it was.

The true murderer was revealed in the last episode, naturally, but the manner of the dénouement was rather contrived. The contortions and false paths taken to deflect the investigation were so complicated that I didn't feel bad at not having worked out how it had all been done and by which of the two I'd narrowed it down to.

A definite recommend.