"The Crossword Mysteries" A Puzzle to Die For (TV Episode 2019)

A Puzzle to Die For: Directed by Don McCutcheon. With Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, John Kapelos, Barbara Niven. A crossword is found on the murdered owner of a burglarized art gallery. Tess, a Sentinel crossword editor, finds clues in crosswords. Eventually, detective Logan accepts her clues and help. Tess is also running a crossword tournament.

“Tess Harper (Lacey Chabert) is the crossword editor for a New York newspaper. She discovers that someone may be hiding clues to a string of art thefts in the crossword puzzles the paper publishes. The police think sheu0026#39;s a crank. However, they change their opinion when one of Tessu0026#39; colleagues at the paper is murdered.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI know I havenu0026#39;t rated A Puzzle to Die For very highly, but honestly, itu0026#39;s not as bad as I feared it would be. Thereu0026#39;s a reason I donu0026#39;t watch Hallmark films – they usually donu0026#39;t appeal to me. But this one, the first in The Crossword Mysteries series, really isnu0026#39;t half bad. Thereu0026#39;s a certain charm to the production that I enjoyed. Plus, there were several aspects of the mystery that had me engaged. Finally, I find it impossible to watch Chabert and not be drawn in by her screen presence – and that incudes her role in the dreadful Lost in Space. Sure, sheu0026#39;s not going to win an Oscar, but sheu0026#39;s solid enough in this movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo, if A Puzzle to Die For isnu0026#39;t half bad, that means itu0026#39;s not half good also. For starters, without naming names, I found some of the acting weak. And, I found way too much of the dialogue childish. There are several groan-including scenes where grown humans say the most ridiculous things. Finally, I really didnu0026#39;t care for the ending. I found it completely unbelievable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFinally, even though Iu0026#39;ve only rated this a 5/10, I can see myself checking out the other films in the series. While this one may not have completely worked on me, I see enough promise to watch more of The Crossword Mysteries.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEdit: Since I finished writing this last night, I canu0026#39;t stop thinking about this silly film and how much fun I actually had watching it. Iu0026#39;m thinking I may have been too hard on it with my preconceived bias against Hallmark films. As a result, I think a bump in the rating is deserved.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e6/10.”