The Secretly Recorded Confession Has Got to Stop

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I have seen two television finales just this week that hinged on one of the oldest, most overused narrative shortcuts: the secretly recorded confession. Y’all, it needs to stop. Spoilers for The Beast In Me and The Morning Show , among others, below:

It happens in Netflix’s latest thriller, The Beast in Me , starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys. Rhys’ character — the villain — spends most of the season meticulously orchestrating a murder and framing Danes’ character for it. The plot is tight, almost maddeningly so. She’s arrested, charged, locked up — the frame job is ironclad. But all the writers have to do to undo their own perfect crime is rely on the villain’s arrogance. His wife convenie

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