Your Sudden Death Question

Ive just watched this right through for about the 4th time and I still don't can't remember who did or why. That's the epitome of the perfect murder mystery to me. Also included in this episode which helps the story along is an amazing cast of actors and great characters, a favourite being Alan Davies. Love the quiz background as well along with other things afoot. One of the classics.

PS just watched for about the 10th time know and remember who and why now yet I still love watching it, that's how great it is. And so is Alan Davies.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, it's perhaps one of my favourite episodes of Lewis, several reasons, the originality of the script, I can't think of many shows set to a Quiz show, I love the depth of the mystery, it's definitely one that gets the grey matter working, I also loved the wonderful cast. It took a second watch for me to fully understand what was going on, the killer's motives etc, there were plenty of red herrings to mull over.

Great to see Alan Davies here as a suspect, and host, as opposed to a Gameshow Guest or Detective, cast against type. I loved the duo of Nicholas Farrell and Timothy West, there truly was a lot of talent here. The side story of Hathaway's guitar was also a nice touch.

Innocent kept up the theme of dressing as though she were off to an evening Soiree.

Ticks all the boxes, 9/10.

A group of people gather at an Oxford college to compete in a quiz contest for a large prize. One of them, an annoying, know-it-all womaniser is murdered. Due to his personality quite a few people would loathe him, but murder him? Lewis and Hathaway investigate.

One of the better Lewis episodes. A classical whodunnit in the Poirot mould as all the possible suspects are locked in a location. Now Lewis and Hathaway just have to figure out who did it.

Better too because the plot and evidence builds up to the revelation rather than like many Lewis episodes where revelation of the guilty party comes out of the blue as a wild twist in the last 10 minutes.

Some interesting, engaging sub-plots too. Good to see that at last there might be some progress on the Lewis-Dr Hobson relationship. That's been due for some time now.

Not a full review, just a correction to an earlier review.

Ava Taylor and Ethan Croft's team is called Nuts, from the National Union of Teachers (NUT), and the town they work in is Reading, not Redding (but it is pronounced redding!)

Also, it's Old Contemptibles, not contemptables.

When regularly bland Lewis and Hathaway are the most charismatic characters in an episode thats not good. A rare British detective mystery without one standout in and out character. The episode got off to a rocky start and slightly rebounded. The early scene of quiz competitors introducing themselves was reminiscent of a much mocked 90s Levi's jean commercial with the annoying forced fakeness of the personalities.

Alan Plater Lewis scripts so far have one gem and the rest only mediocre to dreadful. The stories rarely produce any stellar suspense or classic characters. Here the red herring out of the blue reveal that a suspect's wife was the assault victim of Croft's was awkward and drew little outrage from Lewis that this was withheld.

Probably the most memorable part of the weak episode was Rebecca Front (Ch. Supt. Innocent) filling out her cute purple dress in multiple scenes. The final scene of Lewis and stunning Clare Holman (Dr. Laura Hobson) was quite awkward and poorly written.