And Then There Were Fewer

This would've made the perfect family guy finale since it had all of the main and secondary characters excluding Cleveland and it has a perfect final plot.

I love Family Guy but this episode just wasn't very funny at all. They have obviously stepped up the quality of animation. It looked fantastic and it was a great premise for an episode, spoofing Agatha Christie thrillers. However it was let down by a serious lack of actual comedy. I laughed out loud twice in 50 minutes of screen time. The writer had no idea how to write lines for many of the characters apart from occasionally Peter and Quagmire.

It was intriguing that they killed off some of the characters but personally I would have gone further, slight spoiler follows as I name people that survived. Can they do anything more with Herbert, he has harassed the hell out of Chris for years and it just isn't funny anymore? Or with Consuela who was a one joke character anyway? Or with Mayor West who again seems to have run his natural course in the show?

For me, the quality of Family Guy went down a lot in Season 8, but they can still make really amazing episodes, this one being an example.

This was a great start to Season 9, and iirc the third one with James Woods in it. Peter gets invited by Woods to go to a special dinner in his honour, where it turns out that he has actually invited almost everyone in Quahog to make amends for what he has done to them in the past. Then, Quagmire's annoying guest Stephanie suddenly gets murdered, followed by James Woods.

This is a murder mystery episode, and not one where at the end one character says 'WOAH GUYS! THIS WAS ALL A GAME!', no, the characters that die here are gone from the rest of the series.

10/10

P. S. Do not expect the same level of quality from all other Season 9 episodes.

Other than that, this was done great.

Nice twists and turns with them looking for clues about who was the murderer.

That plot where everyone is in a mansion and, one person is a murderer but no one knows who and there is no escape.

Have seen that type of plot used in other media before, at least a few times.

The Griffin family are invited to a dinner party in Peter's honour, when they get there they discover the entire village have also had invites. A tree crushes the bridge that leads out of the grand house, so all are trapped, and soon the murders begin. All fingers point to Tom Tucker, but Lois discovers who the real killer is.

Firstly the animation is superb, it looks amazing, almost what you'd expect on the big screen. Great to see all the characters together, even the show pokes fun at having Seamus and Doctor Hartman in the same scene.

Loads of jokes throughout, it's really very funny. Lots of jokes coming from the darker side of Stewie, Peter and the late Adam West. Drew Barrymore really funny again as Jillian. A good move to kill off some of the characters, keeps the show fresh, although I keep waiting for a shock Diane return.

Still my favourite episode, so much going on, looks awesome and packed with laughs. 10/10