I miss the 'murder replay'

I miss the days of the crime drama that would 'replay' the murder at the end so that you could see who did it and how (and probably why).

I know what I'm describing sounds like 'dumbing-down' which is usually to be avoided, but having invested two hours into watching shows like "Vera" or "Lewis" I would quite like to see who committed the murder, because just adding a casual aside into the script of 'and of course Mr Brown killed Miss Jones because he was being blackmailed' just leaves me wondering, who was Mr Brown? And was Miss Jones the mother or the daughter?

As a sphisticated television watcher I shouldn't need to have the solution spelled out to me (a la "Murder She Wrote"), but there is something to be said for this method of story telling, particularly for mysteries. It leaves the viewer with a story they can remember.


Let's see if anyone tries to kill us and work backwards