Ah, just one more thing ...

Robert Lloyd (LA Times) writes an appreciation: "Peter Falk, who died Friday at age 83, was an actor of great and invisible skill who played many parts over a five-decade career. ... But of all his roles, the one he played the longest will be the one longest remembered: Lt. Columbo of 'Columbo,' of all American television detectives certainly the greatest. ... From beginning to end, the show cleaved to its formula: There is no mystery in 'Columbo.' We know whodunnit from the beginning, and we presume that he does too. All the pleasure comes from the slow springing of the trap, the unraveling of the game the victim he imagines he is playing, and Columbo's final minor variation on the phrase, 'There's just one other thing,' delivered with a hunched half-turn upon his arrested exit." R.I.P.