Representation Matters: “Murder, She Wrote” Rebooted With Male Lead
After decades without representation, young male fans of the smash series “Murder, She Wrote” are finally getting a dose of Boy Power on their TV screens!
The role of Jessica Fletcher, the Crimestopping Curmudgeon of Cabot Cove, has traditionally gone to a woman. In fact, it’s been a woman…every time. While fans of both genders have stuck by the show through its ups and downs, the drums were pounding louder and louder to finally do right by the other half of the population and give the part to an unsung male actor.
Now, boys can crowd around the television and see themselves on the screen as the hero, as 96-year-old Pritchard Bertlewhether has landed the iconic role of Fletcher! Cameras are to begin rolling on Season 9 in August, but fans will get to see Bertlewhether make a cameo appearance at the end of this year’s “Murder, She Wrote” Christmas Special, as Lansbury explodes into a ball of hot neutron star gas.
Witnessing a male actor wield Fletcher’s incredible array of mystical gadgets, from the Time Typewriter to the Small Grenade, will be life-changing for many young boys who previously only had a handful of television heroes to look up to:
- Raphael, the sole male Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
- Billy Zane from Titanic LIVE!
- Diddy Kong
- Jeff Sessions
- Skeletor (note: Not a hero. A bad man. Makes many attempts to kill He-Man, one of pop culture’s most famous warrior women)
- O.J. Simpson (note: Not a hero. A bad man. He walks the streets once more, secure your belongings and get in the escape van immediately)
- The Corpse Bride
Add one more masculine hero to that ever-growing list, little boys: Pritchard Bertlewhether as the Mad Maiden of Maine, Jessica Fletcher himself!
Parents across America are showing their support for this revolutionary, long-overdue casting change:
Representation. Matters.
