A new ‘reality’ show debuted on television this summer, and if you haven’t seen this, it’s rather interesting.

It’s simply called MURDER.

Tailor-made for most armchair detectives (and who isn’t?), it features two teams of three people each—average citizens who believe they have a knack for solving crimes. These people are given 48 hours to investigate the forensics of a perfectly recreated crime scene, listen to interviews of suspects, and question a coroner about the details of the murder (based on a REAL murder, btw). They must then present their theories to a real-life detective who reveals where they went right…or terribly wrong.

It’s not only fascinating to guess for yourself what happened and who the murderer is, but to watch the interaction between these people—most of whom have obviously watched a LOT of CSI, lol, and a few who are obviously in the wrong line of work, letting their imaginations carry them far, far away from any factual conclusion.

The only drawbacks are that the viewer is at the mercy of the clues found by the teams (they often miss a lot), and the show has a tendency to be rather gory at times. I SWORE it was a real, bloodied body they were examining when I first tuned in (it’s turned out to be a mannequin, but ya coulda fooled me). :shock:

In my neck of the woods, it comes on cable channel SPIKE TV on Tuesday and Saturday nights, but check your local listings if you’re interested. I believe the videos are also available for watching here.
A very unusual show.