There was a time in TV history when genius detectives needed to possess some quirk or defect. In one show our hero was in a wheelchair. In another he was blind.<\/p>\n
Yet another show had a genius detective notable for being overweight, another for being well past retirement age. A more recent example was Monk, who was seriously OCD.<\/p>\n
I am imagining an executive memo at the studio seeking ideas for quirky genius detectives, looking for that next hit show.<\/p>\n
Some of these ideas would be accepted without hesitation, others met with indignation, perhaps in need of correction. I imagine, for example, that the idea for Dexter<\/i> — a very effective sleuth who happened to be a sociopath — might have been met with some resistance.<\/p>\n
You might say it was a case of defective effective detective directive selective corrective invective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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