Agatha Christie at full speed. Similarly, former DCI Barnaby John Nattles profiled Midsomer Murders in a special documentary to celebrate the show's 25th year on the air, and it's hard to imagine a more fitting summary. Over the years, we've seen the towns of Midsummer play host to a man with British acting chops, and the most inventive and gruesome murder to date has been brought to the screen. And yet, it has always been balanced with the strange country atmosphere and indistinct air of the dark English. It's a formula that fans keep coming back to year after year The truly terrifying forms seem so suitable for midsomer that it's surprising they weren't born earlier.
We had a new midsomer to celebrate the birthday with the documentary, which was put in the middle of the murder of Barnaby Neil Dijon in a horrible festival to enjoy. Coming out, even after 25 years, still feels fresh and familiar and while Id Scarecrow prevents Murders from being called a necessary outing, it's a fun episode with lots of interesting elements that are mostly successful.
It's an annual fundraising festival for the church, but things take a turn for the worse when local PR consultant Naomi Ashworth Emily Beyonce's body looks like a skewer. Barnaby quickly learned that Naomi was not the most popular woman in town: she was involved in a feud between her father, Reverend Oscar Hayden Simon Shepherd, and former Fergus pastor Ronnie David Yap, as well as her involvement in a series of illegal . activities, she was responsible. But what if any of these factors led to her murder? And as more bodies surface, will Barnabas be able to determine who is responsible for the murder?
There really is such a clear fit for Skecro Midsomer that it's surprising they weren't born sooner. The production values are usually higher here, and the use of scratches adds an extra layer of danger to the event, in which I have to point out another murder, which is honestly done like a horror movie. All the essentials of a midsomer are here, and the strong cast is no exception: seeing Simon Shepherd in weird form on TV and Beyonc ڈ pulling double duty as Naomi and her twin sister Bryony. Yap has some emotional moments and I must mention Jessica Allerby as Caitlin Dawson - her role doesn't add much to the action, but it's interesting to see her play DS Winter against her husband Nick Hendricks.
25 years later, Midsomer Murders is true to itself as time goes on.
There are a lot of moving parts in The Scarecrow Murders on this note and I think Helen Jenkins could have improved by cutting back on the script and focusing a bit more. The Caitlin-Winter subplot is resolved very quickly and contributes very little to what is really needed and shows that pathologist Fleur Annette Badland is afraid that they are going nowhere. Character moments are good, but they get lost in the moving parts; just missing a subplot that doesn't add much to the episode, for example the mischievous adventure of Stephan Jason Wong, Naomis's husband, would be very welcome.
It's frustrating to write this because I found the main mystery of the incident really interesting and it actually addressed one of my recurring criticisms of modern midsoom when the killer describes the murder in detail around some tangled themes and why try so hard to connect? Resolution was a unique and substantial novel for the show, but I thought there was no room to fully set it up: the episode wants us to be emotionally attached to this goal, but it needs to do more because it was definitely on the victim. Towards one of death. There were some really clever predictions, but there's no reason Barnaby should make any assumptions unless it's for the audience.
25 years later, Midsomer Murders is true to itself as time goes on. And if it does result in episodes like The Scarecrow Murders, it could go on for a long time - it's far from the best exit show, but it's still the strongest one that's most successful and totally blew me away.
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