The original post: /r/television by /u/-Clayburn on 2024-05-27 23:06:07.
A lot of mystery shows seem to throw a lot of red herrings at you constantly. A common structure seems to be dropping heavy clues and hints at a particular outcome in one episode, and then an entirely different outcome in the next episode, and so on.
This can end up making the reveal feel a bit cheap because it comes out of nowhere, and while even if it’s plausible, the clues along the way don’t really seem to support it or they’re revealed as “clues” after the fact but were clearly misinterpreted or flawed in the initial presentation. Like they’ll find a note ripped in half that says “lee is the killer” and everyone is like “Lee did it!” and at the end you find out it was “Hailey” and the victim thought her name ended in -lee.
So what shows laid out clues in a way that actually allowed the ending to be figured out? (I do want to rewatch Westworld Season 1 because apparently the Internet figured it out early on.) Please use spoiler tags!