Last week Hulu canceled “Death and Other Details” which isn’t surprising considering what a derivative concept it was working with. Setting a murder mystery on an exclusive cruise isn't enough to make its predicaments distinctive. Besides, we have plenty of alternatives that are better at seizing our attention. Documentaries about unsolved murders, grifters and cults proliferate now and forever.
The weekly whodunit was never entirely absent from TV, even if for a long stretch it was dominated by Dick Wolf’s copaganda crusades. Streaming’s expansion brought more British mysteries and private detectives into our view, along with a resurgence in Agatha Christie’s style of crime solving, courtesy of Rian Johnson and “Knives Out.”
