You don't like Columbo, if you like 'angry Columbo', because that breaks the whole premise and kills the immersion.
A hot-tempered man could NOT do what Columbo does so well; slip into the role of a bumbling fool, take all kinds of insults, pity and people thinking he's a homeless bum just so he can get the crook. He would be flying off the handle all over the place all the time, ruining the illusion that he doesn't know the murderer is the murderer.
Hot-tempered man could never keep so calm and act so friendly towards people he KNOWS murdered innocent human beings, now could he?
IF he could, then he would NEVER have lost his temper.
This show tried to have it both ways, and it kills the premise. Angry, hot-tempered Columbo as shown a couple of times, should NOT exist, because he CAN'T exist, for the Columbo formula to work. He's not charming, likeable, poverty-stricken ignorant bumbling fool that can slip under the paranoia of the murderer, if he flies off the handle all the time.
The only way that 'sweet persona' to be able to fool anyone, is if the man playing that role is so convincing that he can keep the persona consistent 100% of the time he shares space with the murderer.
A hot-tempered Columbo would get visibly angry, irritated, annoyed and eventually blow up in unbridled angry hostile fit with every single murderer, except maybe David Pleasant. Sorry, Pleasance.
It might be an interesting TV show to watch, but it would _NOT_ be Columbo.
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