'Professor T's “You Can’t Kill Me” Is Tonally Inconsistent Fun

The title of this week’s Professor T episode, “You Can’t Kill Me,” along with Aunt Zelda opening things with a tarot card reading, suggests a more playful story. The unraveling of this week’s murder is far sadder than what the expectations set. Yet it also manages to be fresh and entertaining, and we’re slowly getting character growth from Jasper again.

Regrettably, the show is leaning harder into its preferred trope of Jasper always being smarter than the police. Yes, he’s supposed to be a genius in criminology. But it’s getting near catchphrase level when the police announce who they’re arresting, only for Jasper to proclaim, “There’s just one problem…” and pronounce their lead suspect is definitely not the killer. Even the other characters are openly rolling their eyes.

Our poor green Highsmith is tripping all over herself and not demonstrating critical thinking. She really steps in it when she takes over guard duty for a vulnerable witness without proper authorization, falls asleep on the job, and tackles the witness’ father after mistaking him for an intruder. She’s lucky not to have charges pressed against her, and that the worst she gets is a stern lecture from Goswami.