Murder mysteries have been having a moment in the pop culture limelight, but why?
Throw a stone and you’re bound to hit a new murder mystery released in film or television in the last few years. In 2022 alone, The Afterparty, Death on the Nile, See How They Run, and Glass Onion dominated screens big and small. While the 2019 feature Knives Out certainly helped to bring the murder mystery to new levels of modern fame, just two years before it debuted, Murder on the Orient Express drummed up big numbers at the box office.
With Britain’s renewed presence in American pop culture, audiences in this territory were bound to also have a reappreciation of the murder mystery. Plus, streaming services like Acorn TV make it clear just how many murder mysteries are already readily available to viewers, with plenty available mysteries ready to be explored and solved. This makes the period of time when murder mysteries were lacking all the more noticeable.
Murder mysteries, then, are the perfect balm for a world that’s unavoidably chaotic. The very fact that these stories are predicated on murder, for starters, makes them ideal for modern audiences. These tales acknowledge the presence of violence and how randomly people can just die at any given moment. However, while occupying some parts of reality, murder mysteries also bring someone like Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc to come in and solve the case.
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