OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Kageyama helps solve the current case.OUR TAKEWow, we’re already a quarter done and we’ve got two completed mysteries under our belt. Or rather, Kageyama once again comes in clutch to reveal the unforeseen details that solve the case after Kyoichiro and Reiko waste an episode and a half on bad leads and coming to wrong conclusions, making me genuinely wonder why we are following them as protagonists at all. Yeah, I understand that Kyoichiro is SUPPOSED to be the charlatan blowhard who is only putting on the airs of being a detective and often doesn’t know what he’s talking about. His foibles are then meant to be a foil to Reiko and how despite seeing very unassuming looking, she is actually the much more knowledgeable and brilliant of the two. She IS the titular “Dinner Table Detective”, right? Well, maybe I got that wrong, because twice in a row now, she has basically been as clueless as Kyoichiro and needing Kageyama to come in and reveal a previously unconsidered angle to the mystery that blows any pre-existing theories out of the water, which Reiko then uses and passes off as her own discovery to solve the case and get the credit. Now I’m not saying that Kageyama is anything like a victim here. It’s clear that he WANTS to help Reiko, even if the reasons for that are currently a blank. But I was under the impression that this was about HER being the cool detective, not copying answers off her butler.But whatever, it’s not like this one’s mystery is that interesting to begin with, as it ends with the most basic cliche of murder mysteries: that the butler did it. Again, not Kageyama, but the butler for the real estate mogul who he murdered when she fired him for…being the son of a business owner who owned the property before she bought it? I mean I guess it’s giving the criminal some consequences unlike the last one, and it’s definitely more intense than the last one too. But similarly, this one also was covered over the course of an episode and a half. If this keeps going at this same rate, they’ll run out of the five books they have for source material by halfway through the seventh episode, so I’m not really sure what their plan is to slow down the pacing, considering these stories are paper thin and are not the most interesting. Maybe they’ll take Kageyama out of the story for a bit so Reiko can FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT FOR HERSELF GOD DAMMIT.