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baxtrtoday at 4:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Another counterpoint: Columbo


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jsolsontoday at 5:35 PM

Columbo is anything but a failure, though, and the audience knows that. His genius is leveraging humility to convince killers that he's a bumbling idiot, while in reality he's onto them from the first encounter.

_Slow Horses_ came up in another thread. I'd argue that Columbo has more in common with Jackson Lamb than with Charlie Brown.