Why do, mostly, American shows feel the need to do this? "I've run out of ideas, so let's rewind 50 or 60 years!"
Castle did it terribly with Blue Butterly and Lucifer has done it with this.
This is awful. The script clunks like a toolbox falling down some stairs. The actors seem embarrassed to be in it and whoever shot it, will be crying themselves to sleep for wanting to make an actual noir.
Dreadful. Not full of dread...just dreadful.
