Narsham posted:

Last Salute's bad choices fail so badly that the good ones (like having a howcatchem turn into a whodunnit) get completely overwhelmed. But they really did decide they wanted Columbo to start physically doing what he's always done to people verbally, and to play around with the idea that Falk was done with the series, and to make almost every single character profoundly unpleasant. (That last one is a common mystery trope that Columbo usually refuses to engage in.) It plays like an episode of Columbo that wants the cast to be having a good time and doesn't much care about the audience.