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Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried

Name: Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried
Director: Mark Jean
Released: 2017
Duration: 83 min

Representation Score

5.3/10

Fair

2017

TV-G

Director

Mark Jean

Runtime

83 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried is a typical cozy mystery that prioritizes plot resolution over exploring diverse identities. The story follows a traditional detective duo through a local crime, sticking closely to established genre conventions. The production does not intentionally address overlapping aspects of identity. It maintains a conventional tone that respects traditional social structures without challenging them. Ultimately, the film serves as a procedural that avoids disrupting social hierarchies, focusing instead on resolving a historical reenactment gone wrong.

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Category Breakdown

Does Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film adheres to traditional social norms and does not include any characters with non-binary gender identities or sexual orientations. It also does not question the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.

How does Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried portray gender?

Fair

Maggie works alongside Henry as a co-investigator, indicating a sense of professional equality. However, the film sticks to conventional crime-solving dynamics and does not challenge traditional gender roles.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried?

Limited

The story revolves around a small, likely homogenous community. There is no indication of a racially diverse cast or actors playing roles outside their traditional ethnic backgrounds.

How does Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried represent religion and culture?

Fair

The narrative emphasizes restoring order through traditional customs and lacks any critique of Western institutions or secular values. It upholds conventional social norms without questioning them.

Does Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried include disability representation?

Limited

The film does not feature any characters with visible or hidden disabilities. The plot focuses solely on solving the crime and investigating the events.

Present on Screen

Maggie provides a sense of professional equality as a co-investigator.
The film avoids the cliché of passive female characters through its central duo.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or queer-coded subtext.
There is no evidence of racial diversity or non-Anglo-Saxon casting.
The narrative does not include neurodivergent or physical disability representation.
The story does not challenge or critique established cultural or social hierarchies.

Official Synopsis

Henry and Maggie attend the birthday party of a local publisher, where his son and stepson reenact a historical 18th century dual. Someone, however, has loaded the antique pistol with a real musket ball, so when son pulls the trigger, he kills his stepbrother in front of a roomful of witnesses. Henry and Maggie have to figure out who wanted the stepson dead and why.

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