Review of Moonlight

The first episode was okay. It had a few problems but that's to be expected with a pilot. But then the second episode.

It's clear that the writer of the second episode has no understanding of revenge or police forensics. The only thing that allowed this episode to exist is that all of the characters in it acted like idiots (i.e. had no ability to reason about the events that they witnessed or participated in).

If you want to kill someone with some celebrity status, confronting them in a public place may not be a good idea. If you have a lot to hide, it's idiotic. If you want to frame someone for shooting you, they have to have fired a gun recently. The tests for gunshot residue really do work. If you're a vampire that has lived in the same city using the same name for decades, drawing attention to these facts and having only implausible explanations for them is incredibly stupid.

This show might have gotten away with some of this stupidity if it was spread over a season, but to cram so much into the second episode was for me the end.

I'm disappointed, I had hopes that this might be a smarter entry in the genre. Instead, it's the idiot entry.