Midsomer Murders - Market For Murder (DVD)

Advantages: Easy to watch and very entertaining
Disadvantages: Could become repetitive?

...of Box Set One The Killings at Badger's Drift Badgers Drift was the pilot and what a way to start. An old lady is found dead in her cottage. No-one can understand why as she was a lovely lady who kept herself to herself. The only indication that the viewer gets is that at the start of the episode she witnesses something unsettling in the woods. Written in Blood Midsomer Worthy is the setting for this gruesome murder. The victim is Gerald Hadleigh, the secretary of the writers circle. All is not how it first appears as the plot unfolds Barnaby and Troy discover this man had no formal identification. Was he indeed who everyone thought he was? Death of a Hollow Man An elderly resident is found drowned after a violent attack in a nursing home in the village of Ferne Basset. Meanwhile, elsewhere a local amateur dramatic... Read review

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Advantages: Great story lines. Mysterious. Well produced.
Disadvantages: None

...This is one of my favourite programmes on ITV1 at the present time. It is about murders and the solving of them in deepest rural England, known locally as Midsomer. There are various country villages littered in this area. The main town is Corsten, where the two main characters live and police from. These characters are: Dectective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, who is played by John Nettles (of Bergerac fame). Sergeant Troy, played by Daniel Casey. During a typical 2-hour long programme, there could be as many as 4 or 5 murders, and up to 10 or 12 different suspects. All of the latter try and throw The Chief Inspector and the Sergeant off the trail of devastation., by giving false alibies. Along the way of solving the murders, Tom Barnaby also has to keep his wife and family happy. He does this by either bringing them to... Read review

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Advantages: Fascinating case, Fuhrman is a really interesting guy
Disadvantages: Plodding and unconvicing film

...without a cinema run. The second reason is that the film is very linear, it's a murder film without any real violence or horror, because that's not what the film is about. So the film in my view falls between being entertainment and a documentary programme, because it's neither. I'd really rather watched this having been made in a documentary style, but because the murder of the girl was real, it is difficult to gain any "enjoyment" from it being a horror film. The DVD has very few extras, just the standard sub-titles and a couple of trailers. I've mentioned in the past in my reviews that I always like extras as I believe that they add some extra depth to the film, and so it's disappointing that there aren't any on this DVD. I suppose however that this is understandable given the low production costs and the intention in making the film a non... Read review

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