Figuring it out or completely stumped!

So my question to you is... Just how good are you? When you watch a mystery on TV or a movie are you so fine-tuned that you know just the clue to pick up on? The key phrase or event that changes everything? The clue buried under a mountain of dialog or events?
Or are you completely surprised at the end?

Foul! Once upon a time writers could get away with this crap but no longer. All the clues must, must, must be there.

So that said, are you good at finding them or are you stumped? I’m getting better at figuring out the killer but I still get stumped. When I attend those mystery dinner parties I can never figure out the killer. In fact I’m usually the worse one in the group.
But at movies I’m getting better at tuning into the little clues intended to be lost in the shuffle. I think that’s because that’s exactly what I have to do when I write...bury the clues?

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Published on January 23, 2018 23:00
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