Greenville, SC - The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show

"I really enjoyed the dinner and the interactions. I paid to have my hubby involved and it did not disappoint in any way. Some of the guests even thought he was the actual killer!!!"

"I bought tickets for my wife’s birthday because she loves everything dateline, murder mystery, and serial killer related and I thought this would be something we could enjoy together as a date night. Based on all the positive reviews I expected a dinner theatre style show that would be a compelling murder mystery and fun for us to solve. Maybe our expectations were too high. What we experienced instead left us very underwhelmed. There’s a “murder” in the room with zero setup and then the majority of the time it is two detectives reading off clues that they then give you on a phone to review later. The problem is the discovery of these clues have no setup (they just pull pieces of paper from their back pocket) and the story isn’t really compelling enough to care. The whole show is basically just two people talking with tired dialogue and cheesy jokes mixed in with audience interactions where half of it is “interrogations” to find out if they are the killer and the other half is meaningless antics just to fill time. Like making people do cat walks or having them pretending to stab a corpse as a robot, vulture, or a unicycling clown juggling knives. We were so bored we almost contemplated leaving after the 2nd act realizing that things weren’t going to get any better. By the end I didn’t really care who did it, even though I guessed right, but I wasn’t invested in the story due to all the silly acting and antics. The food was ok at best and service was fine but the show overall was very disappointing. To top it off once the show was over they were giving out free shot glasses to anyone who wrote a 5 star review. (Company responded saying this wasn’t true, but that’s the exact words that came out of the hosts mouth that evening) So that is why I felt compelled to write this review tonight, because sometimes a bunch of 5 star reviews are not what they seem."

"What a time... let's start with the mechanics of the show. There are several scenes, in which they give you clues. The clues are also in a digital format, so during the scenes they basically just read what is already in the digital clues. The rest of the time is audience interactions. They "interrogate" audience members, including a few obvious actor plants. But the interactions with the other non-actor audience members were hard to watch, like making three audience members do a catwalk, or making another do a "lie detector" bit and asking if he was wearing underwear. They didn't add to the murder mystery element at all, I guess that is the "comedy" element of the show. It was not funny. They relied on cheap sexual jokes, and crass childish humor, for example at one point they ran around the room with a pair of underwear, putting it on people's face and heads. Most of the audience was incredibly drunk, maybe I was just too sober to enjoy it, or I wasn't the target demographic.. but the others at my table had similar opinions... I was shocked that this has as many 5 star reviews as it does, but then at the end they were giving out shot glasses to people that gave 5 star reviews, so I'm curious how many of these are because of the bribery. If you are looking for a mystery solving event, I'd suggest an escape room (Escape Artist is the best in Greenville) and if you're looking for comedy.. definitely look elsewhere."

"Fun, interactive and clean! A great night to spend with family or loved ones! Watch out for the red herrings, they're everywhere! We had such a blast! Good food and great atmosphere!"

"It was an amazing show, lots of laughs, mystery, song, dance and a great time. Highly recommend."