Season 2 of Mrs. Columbo (aka Kate Loves a Mystery) does everything it can to cut ties with Columbo and become something else – a truly idiotic idea. Responding to negative fan reaction to season 1, Kate Columbo gets divorced and becomes Kate Callahan, and the weekly neighborhood paper she works for is transformed into a major metropolitan newspaper with Kate on the crime desk. This change in direction also effects the tone of the show, going darker with Kate investigating prostitution rings, serial killers, and crooked politicians, and often becoming a target of the killer. Yet the show tries to have it both ways, never saying that Kate’s ex-husband wasn’t Lieutenant Columbo; which only serves to further alienate Columbo fans by making him into a bad husband and an absentee father. And Jenny, the daughter, becomes kind of a problem, as she doesn’t fit the new tone of the show. Still, a couple of interesting guest stars appear, including Dee Walace, Ted Danson, and Rene Auberjionois, and there are some exciting action sequences (which is yet another format change). Unrecognizable as Mrs. Columbo, and purposely so, Season 2 is a hot mess that was cancelled after 8 episodes.
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Season 2 of Mrs. Columbo (aka Kate Loves a Mystery) does everything it can to cut ties with Columbo and become something else – a truly idiotic idea. Responding to negative fan reaction to season 1, Kate Columbo gets divorced and becomes Kate Callahan, and the weekly neighborhood paper she works for is transformed into a major metropolitan newspaper with Kate on the crime desk. This change in direction also effects the tone of the show, going darker with Kate investigating prostitution rings, serial killers, and crooked politicians, and often becoming a target of the killer. Yet the show tries to have it both ways, never saying that Kate’s ex-husband wasn’t Lieutenant Columbo; which only serves to further alienate Columbo fans by making him into a bad husband and an absentee father. And Jenny, the daughter, becomes kind of a problem, as she doesn’t fit the new tone of the show. Still, a couple of interesting guest stars appear, including Dee Walace, Ted Danson, and Rene Auberjionois, and there are some exciting action sequences (which is yet another format change). Unrecognizable as Mrs. Columbo, and purposely so, Season 2 is a hot mess that was cancelled after 8 episodes.