The vampire mystery in undead murder farce ended and I was not correct. I'm trying to decide how well I like the actual solution. There's at least parts of it I don't like.
The injury red herring felt very cheap. If vampires can regenerate that way by cutting off affected areas, why was that even brought up in the first place? I mean, clearly to force the viewer into not making the right prediction by effectively lying about the rules.During the noise part, there was a 5th reason why they might not have heard the noise. Because there was a louder noise drowning it out. AKA the singing. This wasn't even considered for some reason.The convenience of finding the stake and getting it to the study feels like a bit much. If that was the only coincidence, maybe, but it's not.The motive was uninteresting. I mean, it's what I suspected of the motive, but it's still kind of lame. If he wanted to be a "solitary noble creature", why is he with his family anyway? Go live on your own. His justification for not wanting to be a human ally felt very flimsy.The dusty bottle. This might be the worst part. Why the hell would someone who can create this conspiracy, think to take the stake holster and freeze holy water inside it to make a perfect stake and think to bring a bottle to make it look like holy water was scattered around NOT use a bottle that had been washed out recently. In fact, why wouldn't he specifically store holy water in there so there'd be trace amounts on the inside? That seems very dumb especially when the bottle is visibly dusty.
I honestly like the idea of using frozen holy water as a stake, that part is clever, but the clue it left behind was very dumb. I did say if the boy was the killer, it would be the weakest plausible answer so I'm kind of disappointed that I still feel that way after the reveal. The show was pointing at him to make him guilty from the outset and I'm not sure I can give the show enough credit for that to be a double fake, especially not when other plausible methods for the crime weren't explored and the motive was so mundane.So after more thought, I guess I don't like how it turned out very much. I will still keep watching though. The dialogue is witty and the world and characters at least somewhat interesting but I really hope the next mystery has a more satisfying solution.