Oct 17, 2023
The case of Undead Girl Murder Farce is a simple one.
It was supposed to be a detective show, but it insists on focusing on action scenes. It might be for the better as action scenes deliver great amount of fun. Sadly, the same cannot be stated about detective part.
Show about detectives are awesome, but it preparing the cases for the viewer to solve and enjoy is an extremely hard task and not every show delivers on that. In UGMF the cases are interesting but their presentation is lacking. The best case is the first one in vampire manor. Why? Because it creates tension, leaves the
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identity of the murderer as a real mystery, let's the viewer learn the clues that make sense, while putting in the plain sight some red herrings. And then it decides that it will be enough of being real detective for the rest of the series. None of the cases later are real mysteries, as people act very obvious, red herring does not look believable, and main characters picking relevant evidence becomes just a make-believe game. The biggest crime in all of that is yet to be unveiled. UGMF deprives you of probably the most important parts of visual storytelling in detective stories: reactions of the questioned people and an insight to the thoughts of the main characters.
But the action scenes are cool. It just would be nice if they would fit with the story. Unfortunately, the viewer is often presented with sequences that make no sense story wise and within the set rules of the world, but are at least bringing back the fun and excitement with fighting scenes.
Lastly, the show clearly have some pacing issues, as through out the season it reaches climax few episodes before the end of the season and then the hype is slowly dying. After closing vampire manor arc, UGMF gives the viewers perspective of main characters entwining with bigger stories in big world. It throws great new characters (and not just small fish - REALLY big names - massive expectations) but then for last few episodes UGMF offers you a small town mystery.
Overall, I rate it 7/10 for the great first case and amazing promise of the second arc. Sadly, the show just crumbles the further it goes, while forgetting what it should focus on.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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