>>213421014 (OP)why is Gus there and not Shawn?
>>213421222Gus was the main character.
>>213421356They remade this but with a girl?
>>213422634Correct
Learn to be like Lieutenant Columbo
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2011/06/29/learn-to-be-like-lieutenant-columbo
From The Economist
>>213421014 (OP)Columbo~=Poirot > Psych > Murder She Wrote > Nero Wolfe > Matlock > 2000s hallmark mysteries > non-columbo 1970s wheel movies > 2010s+ hallmark mysteries > Monk
>>213421014 (OP)Monk sucks, it's the same shit dragged out 5x as long as it needs to be.
>>213421014 (OP)Columbo and second place is Jessica Fletcher.
Columbo and it's not even fucking close.
>>213422535But she's on a never ending road trip, which is a kino trope.
>>213425881Because they're kino you retard
>>213425881because autistic supergenius and his cop handler/tard wrangler is a fun pairing.
>>213425881Columbo is literally just a manlet
I want to criticize these shows, but ive watched house 20 times through.
>>213425937We love their competence but laugh at their incompetence. The duality humanizes them, otherwise they are just superhuman, like Sherlock Holmes in the books.
>>213425969Psych, the reveal in The Mentalist made the whole show dogshit
>>213421014 (OP)Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews in Life, the falsely imprisoned turned rich buddhist nepo-detective on a revenge mission to catch the corrupt cops who framed him in between solving murder cases.