Quite good fun, but too many coincidences
This show will probably always defeat some viewers, daytime TV is like that, though the review who needed the plot explained may need a greater degree of help?
This last episode of the series had a pretty good plot (compared to some), with 3 murders on the same day, all at weddings in Bath, with the culprit trying to conceal one targeted murder in what apparently was a maniac serial killer's work (this plot device isn't uncommon -- Midsomer must have had it dozens of times?). This one mixed in an unusual twist, a jet-lagged detective having flashbacks of a dream in which the main suspect had a leading role? Bizarre.
But the story flowed along for the best part of 2 hours, police running around in circles until they started to work out what the key facts were.
And it was helped by a strong cast, for the genre, with a former Midsomer detective having a key role (and what seemed his new hair?!), and Victoria Hamilton (famous for having been Victoria and the Queen Mother!) providing a mysterious presence at the weddings, and getting up close and personal to Dodds ("have you got time for sex"?).
When you settled down and reviewed what happened, there were just too many coincidences, but that's hardly uncommon in detective fiction, Agatha Christie had loads, and after all, this isn't Shakespeare.
This last episode of the series had a pretty good plot (compared to some), with 3 murders on the same day, all at weddings in Bath, with the culprit trying to conceal one targeted murder in what apparently was a maniac serial killer's work (this plot device isn't uncommon -- Midsomer must have had it dozens of times?). This one mixed in an unusual twist, a jet-lagged detective having flashbacks of a dream in which the main suspect had a leading role? Bizarre.
But the story flowed along for the best part of 2 hours, police running around in circles until they started to work out what the key facts were.
And it was helped by a strong cast, for the genre, with a former Midsomer detective having a key role (and what seemed his new hair?!), and Victoria Hamilton (famous for having been Victoria and the Queen Mother!) providing a mysterious presence at the weddings, and getting up close and personal to Dodds ("have you got time for sex"?).
When you settled down and reviewed what happened, there were just too many coincidences, but that's hardly uncommon in detective fiction, Agatha Christie had loads, and after all, this isn't Shakespeare.
- Tony-Holmes
- Aug 12, 2024