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I loved the original British version. The city setting is great for the tough female lead. However, I find myself being annoyed by all male cast of wise cracks. They are not funny and the all male crew is neither realistic or appealing. The first scenes of a brutally murdered female body -- is that really necessary expect as a fuzzy background? I'm not into the casual gore anymore. With the prevalence of cop shows, the shock value of the bloody female body is just artless. Overall, the wisecracks and toughness seem to mask a lack of depth of character. There's too many other shows to catch up on.

I'm glad they are back with season 24. But I'm swearing off serial killers shows and tho they don't advertise it as such, there are serial killings in every show. This is easily my favorite cozy mystery show but i hope they can cut down the killings and amp up the village characters.

To list all that works in no particularly order: scenery, the even pace of the investigations, the level headedness of the investigators, the dialogue and the villagers.

At some point, very late in the seasons (of season 24), they started including Black and Brown characters which earlier on would have been unthinkable. Fortunately, the english village quality did not change. I hope they are able to make a similar shift with the extravagant number of murders. At least make a few that involves only one murder!