It's everyone's favourite murder mystery programme; and this time, when season four returns to screens on August 27th, the star-studded series will turn its magnifying glass on murder from the streets of New York to the glamour of Hollywood. In this feature, first published in 2015, David Jenkins questioned if peace had finally come to Jamie Blandford..
.and what sort of man he is ‘The place is unreal,’ Ethel Barrymore once said of the City of Stars. ‘The people are unreal.
The flowers are unreal – they don’t smell. The fruit is unreal. Even the streets and buildings are unreal.
I always expected to hear a carpenter shout “strike!” and the whole place come down like a stage set. That’s what Hollywood is – a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set erected in the desert.’ It’s a sentiment that rings true to this day: at the heart of the world’s film industry often feels like a movie itself.
From superstars strutting down sidewalks to up-and-comers backstabbing their way to a big break, from plastic faces to porcelain smiles, Hollywood glamour hides an un-reality hollower than the cheeks of a starlet after buccal fat reduction. There’s a reason they call it Tinseltown. Perhaps this film set facade explains our grim fascination with the moments real-life murder comes to the .
Whether its spider web conspiracies or brutal acts of sudden violence, a murder in Hollywood is simultaneously a visceral reminder of the all-too-human nature of even our greatest stars, and.