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Unashamedly campy. If you were about in the seventies, you'll get the reference. The people who feel compelled to review this series when only half way through one episode, should be ashamed. It's a confused show with a lot happening. When it concentrates on the flashbacks of the concentration camps it comes alive. We need the lightness to enable us to absorb and compute the atrocities. Yes it's real situations fictionalised for our delicate sensibilities. It's compressed into various times and places but we realise why the team is doing what they are doing. Forgotten? Surely not ,but to live with that frustration and helplessness of loss that only the later generations could equate to the favourite latte not being available or finding a favourite programme has been cancelled is reflected in some of these downright pathetic reviews. It tells me so much more about the views of those people than a fictional programme lightly depicting the fear, hate and treatment of the 6 million. I'm neither Jewish or fascist. Just a human . This series has taught me about loss and fear. I shan't complain about losing my job again, or hating Monday mornings.

Nick Mohammed is very good as are the support. His writing is very good. Schwimmer shows his ability as a support not a lead. His comedy timing is second rate compared to the the rest of the ensemble. In response to one reviewer who thought anyone who didn't rate this 10 was a boring , I'd write anyone who finds this laugh out loud and rates it 10, is a thick.

Oh for the halcyon days when id sit glued to the tv absorbed by the way these stories would play. Beautifully crafted scripts, plot twists, super acting, great locations and final revelations in Midsomer Murders. I'm aggrieved to write it has, for me, no longer many of these attributes. Plots are thin, scripts seem confused, the final whodunnit staging is now very hamm," Am-Dram" and poorly staged. Neil Dudgeon even seems bored. He's never seemed comfortable with the responsibility left to him by John Nettles and the producers. He's never been a lead actor . Sidekick certainly. All his grimmacing and hang dog expressions have never sat well as a lead detective. I now watch Vera or Endeavour for tightly crafted scripts , great plots, characterisation and beautiful locations. . MM is now in the background as a comfortable noise. It's time for a final curtain call. Can't live for the past forever.