This is what Agatha Christie's stories and their adaptations so good. The murder usually only happens at the end of the first act or halfway through the novel, where we get a good look at how the victim interacted with the suspects to get an understanding as to why they would want the victim dead.

A great example of this is the film version of Evil Under The Sun, where Poirot is asked to go in holiday to help confront a suspected jewel thief and along the way, we see the victim interacting with the other characters and it's made clear that nearly everyone has a reason to want her dead. She's only murdered halfway through the film, with the first half revealing;

• She jilted her ex-fiancé to go off and marry another man, stealing a million-dollar diamond from him in the process;
• She's secretly brought the man she's cheating on her newlywed husband with on her honeymoon;
• She's rubbing it into the face of her affair's own wife;
• She's a truly wicked stepmother;
• She's screwed her publicist out of thousands by refusing to sign off on the release of a book;
• She bailed on a major Broadway production and got it cancelled three weeks into a six-month contract, leaving her bosses broke;
• She may have ruined a rival actress' career and is currently married to the man the other actress is in love with.

Edit: Also, fun fact - the victim in that film, Arlena Marshall, was played by Diana Rigg AKA Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.

So far, The Last of Us is more like a post-apocalyptic road trip movie. Easy Rider with zombies.

It's not how popular a show is, it's how many people watch the show. Ratings is usually what a Network cares about m.

Do you think Netflix is going bankrupt?

By that logic, GOT is a western with the hound saving Arya and putting in front of him on a horse.

...and the 'totally not a virgin' in Wet Hot American Summer.

I definitely get the 'western vibe' you are describing with The Last of Us. It might not tick off the boxes for what technically makes a western, but it definitely has that same sombre tone as a Johnny Cash song.

Maybe 'western' isnt the right word, but it definitely feels 'country'.

Socialists abandoned the idea of a moneyless society a century ago.

Cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve too

White tee, denim vest, tool belt & a mustache; peak 80s manhood

Well the having money part is pretty key.

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How so?

Meh. The second one was mediocre.

I think the western hero on horseback with a girl he's saving is a trope that has been used in the genre. Joel in general is very western lead character-y I think with his rugged old school loner vibes. Maybe I'm putting too much on episode 6 being western like compared to the early ones.

I agree Yellowstone may actually be the least western, it's more of a mob show at heart and appealed to the people watching Godfather reruns on the former Spike TV. But it still has a lot of horsey and cowboy hat guys so I think it's still a bit of a western.

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Very excited for the Taylor Kitsch project coming American Primevil

Terribly written character. Wasn't sad to see her die

I didn’t appreciate the lengthy application process though.

It’d be pretty cool to see IT in it’s other forms before the clown. With HBO production value I’m here for it.

Incidentally RDR had a Zombie expansion.

You put it together so we’ll, take the award!

> But to defend the point, western genre is about the struggle against a frontier without a justice system, with disjointed or no support of authoritative body, hostile locals, tryically set in the American West which is usually depicted as hostile difficult to live off of land.

you could say that about any post-apocalyptic media.