Monday, April 10, 2023
Columbo, Our Ethical Ghost
COLUMBO’S PHANTOM WIFE
https://medium.com/@jacquescoulardeau/colombos-phantom-wife-8ee4bc87f627
The
series as such deals with the top of the social top, the cream of the effete
world in and around Hollywood. These people are rich to the point of drowning
in their greenbacks or drowning in the common accompaniment of these greenbacks
that whisky, or should I say bourbon, is. They have cars that are as long as
trains and homes that are as big as the castles of the crazy Prussian emperor Friedrich,
or was it a Bavarian Duke or something like that? They live in a dream in which
their own umbilical logic — which is pretty obtuse — is the law reigning over
the world and is re-enforced by their propensity at calling the top politicians
and making them sing the song of the death of Columbo, as if Columbo were a
swan, in other words pressurizing if not blackmailing them.
Éditions
La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023
