I’ll see your Sherlock Holmes bare-knuckle boxing and raise you Edgar Allan Poe as a crime-fighting detective:
ABC has ordered a crime drama where Edger Allen Poe solves mysteries.
I know. It sounds like some kind of dream within a dream. But here’s the official description for Poe: “Crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe as the world’s very first detective, using unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston.” [Inside TV]
Um, I hate to split hairs when we’re already making gigantic leaps through B.S. to get “depressed alcoholic author solves crimes,” but I think detectives existed before the 1840s. (Update: a commenter confirms this.)
Anyway, if you’re anything like me, you’re thinking, “Hey, wait. Wasn’t Poe from Baltimore?” But no. He was born in Boston and raised in Virginia, and although he was married (to his 13-year-old cousin) and died in Baltimore, he did spend a fair amount of his old life in Beantown. DO NAWT DISRESPECT A MEMBAH OF RED SAWX NATION!
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Unless this has sexy young doctors and/or lots or cheesy relationship drama, it’s probably doomed on ABC.
I’ll be sure to quote that story the next time someone tells me I’m as slow as molasses in winter.
/Oh, you mean like 35 mph?!
//yeah, that’s a burn.
[en.wikipedia.org]
In a related story CBS has divorced single father Washington Irving move in with his shiftless, minstrel singing brother. Comedy does not ensue.
I’d like this more if Poe fought vampires with a young Abraham Lincoln. They should cast that “Are we having fun yet?” guy from those beer commercials.
OW-UH CAH-ZINS AH HAWTER THAAN YAHR CAH-ZINS!
This sounds like a dream within a dream!
As a Boston native, I can confirm that on hot summer days, the North End does smell like molasses…if molasses smells like garbage and piss.
I move for a wise-cracking dog sidekick, named “Poechinski.”
Bring back Frank Gannon P.I. P.I.!
Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered the first novel of the detective genre so this almost makes sense.
Can’t wait for the name. Poe-Etic Justice! Law & Order: Rue Morgue! Raven ’bout the Sawx!
Goddammit, DG. Leave some references for the rest of us.
@Otto: yeah, but at least it was a *good* reference. I miss that show.
I’m not sure you can call his sleuthery unconventional if he is supposebly the very first detective in the history of ever.
I love the smell of molasses in the morning.
Goddamn- Danger stole my sole reason for commenting.