2nd May 2020
Episode #4.7 - S4-E7
Stupidity: It is stated that the police got the fingerprints of the culprit thanks to a certain object. In other words, they investigated the murder without taking any fingerprints from any suspect - even the one who has been jailed for shooting the corpse - and they even had his file already from the previous inquiries.
2nd May 2020
Episode #4.6 - S4-E6
Stupidity: This is another episode when with a very limited number of suspects, not checking the phone records makes the case more complicated than it would be, but more importantly, the bad guy keeps the phone used for the shady affairs constantly switched on for no reason. No attempt is made by the police to trace the area it comes from, either - in fact it's very naive of the Commissioner to even try to call the number - but it works.
2nd May 2020
Episode #4.6 - S4-E6
Stupidity: The police finds a message the victim recorded on the phone. Conveniently, there is no timestamp on the message; it's a vital clue and with a modicum of effort surely a date of the recorded file could have been determined - but of course it would have made the mystery easier.
2nd May 2020
Episode #4.2 - S4-E2
Stupidity: The way the investigation proceeds makes no sense - it is especially obvious for us viewers having actually seen the scene; Karl arrives and meets the wife of the victim, who is busy in the kitchen. He walks just a few feet outside, placing his doctor bag on the bench that is right there, and again, right there with no wait, he pulls a deck of cards out of his pants and puts that on the table. A gunshot is instantly heard. Karl and Katie Peters should be perfectly able to validate each other's alibi, because there's no way that either of them could have shot the victim.in the shack in the less than 10 seconds they lost sight of each other. Instead, the whole episode goes on as if it could be possible for everyone to just go on and shoot someone while being mere meters away from each other.
2nd May 2020
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Stupidity: The detectives suddenly bring everything to a dramatic halt to have a word with Joseph, because Fidel has been able to check the prints and his were the only ones on the gun and therefore he became really suspicious. It's his own gun, and people can wear gloves - in fact they do all the time! The fact that they automatically turn on him and he is unable to defend himself is simply 'because the plot this time says so', since in every other episode Joseph's prints would have been exclusion prints - they are supposed to be there and there's nothing suspicious about it.
2nd May 2020
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Stupidity: Humphrey picks the gun from its case using a pen to avoid leaving prints (since for some reason he's not wearing gloves), but then starts messing with the box with his bare hands without having it dusted for any print. Since the box was owned by only one person and hidden under his bed, any other print would have been important evidence. (00:11:40)
2nd May 2020
Episode #3.6 - S3-E6
Stupidity: The villain concocts a demented plan that puts him at absurd risk (if anything goes wrong, he is caught red-handed) and accomplishes nothing, since it does not make him and his accomplice unlikely suspects any more than anyone in the group. It does not make it look like it was an outsider doing it (no attempt is made to fake a robbery), nor a result of an accident. It makes obvious it was a murder (a knife plunged in the back!) but does not pin the guilt on anyone else in the team, which would have been really easy to do (plant the knife or any of the victim's belongings in anyone's tent) and with the two being in on the scheme without anyone suspecting they were connected to each other, it would have been easy to create an alibi for each other, but they don't have any. It should also be noted that there's no reason why the victim wouldn't have exposed the culprit's crime earlier to his fellow birders, since he knew he was going to harm the animals.
1st May 2020
Episode #3.6 - S3-E6
Stupidity: At Catherine's, Humphrey is browsing the photos; neither he or his agents noticed before amongst all the bird and wilderness pics the very obvious series of shots of a woman in a hotel poolside and in close-ups. And yet he has to have printed the (obviously enormous, since he already went through them in the afternoon and investigated the cane seen in them) amount of photos entirely, but finds the photos dining outside from a very small pile on his little dinner table. Those pictures stand out at first glance.
29th Apr 2020
Encounter at Farpoint (2) - S1-E2
Stupidity: Picard has to stop Worf from blasting a hole into the front visor of the bridge when Q appears in it. Even back in the XX century nobody would try to shoot at the TV screen because something appears in it (our TVs being also placed generally in less important positions)! And someone with this degree of imbecility is the high ranking security officer, even.
26th Apr 2020
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Stupidity: Throughout the whole episode, no effort at all is made to find out where were the chocolates purchased, and the bottle of champagne that accompanied the box(es) is completely ignored, not even addressed in a throwaway line (such as that it's too common to trace, or whatnot). It's not directly part of the murder trick so it not even considered. The explanation of why the other incriminating box is still there is also quite ridiculous, since the murderer is left alone for enough time to do strike again with a very timely effort involving her leaving the only room of her bungalow (which involves her, the most known and conspicuous person on set, stalk her in plain view for an undisclosed amount of time), but could not find a few seconds to take a walk a few feet away and bury the box in the sand or bushes, flush the poisoned chocolates down a toilet, throw them at sea, just about anything. It's a bit of chocolate and cardboard, not exactly hard to dispose of that in a big set in the wild.
26th Apr 2020
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Stupidity: Spoiler - In the flashback, apparently the killer 'framed' Susie by going as herself and on the phone going "Helloo, Susie speaking" next to the one guy that is a police informant - not the guy who sold her the fish poison. It would have made sense if she did that while she was buying the tetrodotoxin, but there's no way she could have known that that particular guy was going to talk to the police and they wouldn't be able to instead get a description from the original poison seller (that the police seems to ignore anyway and just let him deal unscrupulously - nobody has a good reason to own a bag of venom - in deadly substances).
26th Apr 2020
Episode #3.2 - S3-E2
Stupidity: The whole case could and should have been solved in 5 minutes if only the cops did what any normal cop would have done; once it became clear (very early in the case) which rare poison was used; trace where it came from. Which in this episode is depicted as being ridiculously easy (all it takes is send Dwayne to the docks to give 20 bucks to his buddy), and is instead resolved very late because it is relegated to a little side-quest Fidel has to deal ineffectively with while the main characters psychoanalyse people and air their dirty laundry.
26th Apr 2020
Episode #2.7 - S2-E7
Stupidity: For his experiment, Richard times Dwayne's departure with exact precision including a 3 count, getting angry because he 'cheats' taking off before it's over...but does that while the others, and himself, have yet to even get to their parallel parked cars. That makes no sense at all. (00:13:55)
26th Apr 2020
Episode #2.5 - S2-E5
Stupidity: For the plot to go the way it is shown, the police, that were specifically looking for poison from an unknown source, had to completely neglectful checking the trash bin (or they'd find a bottle with - literally - the name of the victim in big glitter letters, which is sure to draw attention!) and somehow miss the fact that the victim's food and drink were into a mess of shattered glass that made at best dubious which one her real glass was. Both are pretty huge oversights nobody seems to care about and that would have raised at least some suspicion from even the most casual investigator, especially when no poison was found in the glass.
10th Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Stupidity: Richard is hellbent on proving what really happened, but he sits for more than a whole day on a vital piece of evidence (the phone), does not check it, and despite the fact that the victim was reported being in heated arguments with someone on the phone, he asked for no record of the calls (nor checked whose phone was it, which would have required simply inspecting the SIM card), which would have cracked the case instantly.
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: The building is supposed to be without power - at all since the generator has been destroyed - and life support machines are not powered up, but the 3D printers in every room are powered up - so that the good guy can squish the bad guy's head in it, and the elevators, so that the good guys can escape. What sort of hospital has its electric grid rigged in a way that the elevators keep working but critical surgical equipment goes dead the moment the power fails? (01:12:00)
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: The whole episode has heavy farce tones and shouldn't be taken seriously, because the main plot point does not make sense; unless somehow he was able to produce remains of a body in the plane wreckage, Mr. MacLeish would have never been legally declared dead.
10th Apr 2020
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: With automatic weapons at the ready, doing a hit that takes less than 5 minutes (going by the hotel security footage), somehow one of the two robbers found time to give constant unnecessary update whatsapps to the guy in the car, with things like "Almost at the door" and"Keep the engine running" and "About to breach", all stuff that he didn't need at all for his job. Absolutely fantastic the "Meet you in garage" bit. To the getaway guy with his engine running in the garage. How logorrheic can you get? And those are trained Navy SEALs.
10th Apr 2020
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