Tag: midsomer murders

Not enjoying the commercial I quickly skipped through that was just them chanting the name Jack Reacher as some sort of psychic attack.

Okay so this episode is about rural British people being godless pagans. Let’s do this.

Stage magic offends God, but probably for different reasons than you’re thinking. I mean, in general. I don’t know why in the show.

Luke? Gideon? Hannah? This is very biblical. BUT YET the pub is called THE GREEN MAN.

That’s symbolism, guys.

15 minutes in, only one death so far. But the night is young! Fortunately the cult activities just started. I have no idea if this is sensitive or not to actual British pagans on account of that Island being very weird.

Second show of the night that I would describe as having an ‘Oedipal hellscape’. That’s fun! Really! Oh god.

“This made you mad, of course”
“Of course it did. But that doesn’t mean I killed them”
– Hymn of the murder show

32 minutes in: SECOND DEATH! SECOND DEATH! And a jogger to discover it. Classic. This is why I don’t jog, there’s just way too many corpses out there to be found. Especially ritualistic killings.

55 minutes in: THIRD BODY THIRD BODY. The Oedipal Hellscape continues.

1:24 minutes in: Oh my god it’s the SAME Oedipal Hellscape.

Murderer type: Not Murder Wizard, but Murder MAGICIAN.

That was delightful.

When a wealthy farmer is covered in truffle oil and mauled to death by a wild boar, Barnaby and Nelson’s investigation leads them to a tyrannical celebrity chef.

There was apparently an extremely gory death )the boar thing) in this episode they completely did not show. Just the face. I feel cheated, usually Midsomer is never coy.

Murder was pretty satisfying. Actor playing Nick Ivers was very handsome. Good Sykes subplot. An entire family was wiped out by just being adjacent to the actual target which was delightfully over-murderous.

Also Ruth Cameron’s actress had the best accent. Loved hearing all her lines.

Not a period piece so I have nothing to say about the clothes, but I point out Midsomer Murders has been going on so long that the first season does technically count as a period piece. Watching the evolution of the cellphone through the eyes of Midsomer has been quite the thing.

My grandmother was all about Murder, She Wrote, but my grandpa is all about Midsomer which means I can enjoy the same show as him while he’s still around to talk about it. I had to watch Murder, She Wrote after the fact to get to know my grandma better.

It’s nice to be in the episodes with the second Barnaby so I can understand why we kept using different names for the lead…