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Murder, She Wrote: Mourning Among the Wisterias (1988)
Stereotypical Southern Characters
An excellent cast is largely wasted here as all except Rene Auberjonis and Beah Richards talk as though being Southern requires a mouth filled with mud. Auberjonis, however, suffers the indignity of playing a police detective who wears a Colonel Sanders white suit and black string tie. What police officers would dress in white suits? The playwright is a womanizing Tennessee Williams knock off - there's a concept - right down to his hypochondria and roman a clefs. The great Frank Gorshin is underutilized as a theatrical producer, while Lois Nettleton chews every piece of scenery within reach as an aging actress seeking her comeback role. (Why is she invited to the house when the playwright is adamantly opposed to casting her?) Why does the show insist on making Southerner characters drawl while Maine-based Jessica Fletcher has no trace of a New England brogue? Guess it's easier to mock Southerners.