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\u201cWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a>\u201d is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun \u2014 a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago by \u201cKnives Out<\/a>,\u201d which offered its own perfect revival of the Agatha Christie<\/a> spirit, with a tasty frosting of meta cheekiness. (It invited you to watch yourself watching yourself try to solve a deviously orchestrated crime.) Three years ago, \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a>\u201d was just as clever, but like a lot of sequels to iconic hits it brandished a go-big-or-go-home quality that made it, in the end, a bit too top-heavy. It was still good, but not as good.<\/p>\n

\u201cWake Up Dead Man<\/a>\u201d gives us the best of both worlds. It, too, is trying for something grander than the first \u201cKnives Out<\/a>.\u201d But this one is more rooted and organic than \u201cGlass Onion<\/a>,\u201d and it returns…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun \u2014 a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago by \u201cKnives Out,\u201d which offered its own perfect revival of the Agatha Christie spirit, with a tasty frosting of meta cheekiness. (It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2003432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2003431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Wake-Up-Dead-Man-A-Knives-Out-Mystery-Review-Set.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}