Ewen Macdonald has been acquitted in a trial that went a bit like this …

It was like something out of Shakespeare.

It was like King Lear.

It was like a horror movie.

It was like a proverbial and classic whodunit.

(It was not like a whodunit.)

It was like “a film director, panning in and out”.

It was like a rock concert.

It was like a TVNZ Sunday night drama.

It was like a soap opera.

It was like Midsomer Murders.

It was like Dallas.