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@I_amGermany As someone who wrote a literature dissertation on the subject of crime fiction, let me just leave here one of the axioms of Krimitheorie: the predictability and the flatness of the characters isn't a bug, it's a feature. Think of it as narrative junkfood: paprika chips, zB.
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@I_amGermany (In the US, our most popular and long-running crime shows are, objectively, the dumbest and flimsiest ones. But people bond over their guilty pleasures more, the guiltier they are. Makes for better communal watching: everyone else is that much more complicit.)