'The Residence' Review: Move Over, Benoit Blanc; Uzo Aduba's Quirky Detective Elevates Netflix's White House Murder Mystery

You know the murder mystery genre has made a resurgence — or perhaps never truly died — when there's even a scene in a new murder mystery show remarking on it. That's the case, no pun intended, for Netflix's new series The Residence, produced in partnership with Shondaland and created by Paul William Davies (For The People, Scandal). But it's not enough to merely acknowledge the uptick in onscreen mysteries that people love tuning in to solve; in order to stand out from the rest of the pack, which now includes mysteries of both a whodunit and a howcatchem-style nature, you have to offer a new concept while unspooling twists and turns that keep viewers reeled in.