Midsomer Murders

I agree Cully is boring, but I think she was put on the show for eye candy. She resembles Gwyneth Paltrow circa "Sliding Doors" in her styling and haircut in the early seasons. There's one episode where she's at a carnival wearing a revealing dress with no bra. My favorite episode is the one featuring very young and hot Orlando Bloom and DL fave, Tobias Menzies. Orlando shows skin too. Definitely one for the rewatch list.

Thanks R1 I saw that one, Orlando shows his bum after sex with an older woman then gets stabbed with a pitch fork!

Any others that you remember?

Just watching "Strangler's Wood" tonight. Love the village names!

Poor Cully! She got replaced by a dog.

My favorite episodes are the ones in which Jason Hughes gets naked.

Where does Jason get nude?

Emily Mortimer, incest, murder, and murder suicide - the pilot prerry much had it all.

The episode with Honor Blackmon is one of my favorites. Also, any episode with the original Barnaby is great.

Gwilym Lee can currently be seen as Brian May in Oscar-nominated "Bohemian Rhapsody."

I like Murder on St. Malley’s Day because I think I’d like to belong to the Pudding Club.

[quote]Anyone got a favourite episode?

My favorites tend to be the ones with actors whose work I've enjoyed in other programs, e.g., Anna Massey, Rosemary Leach, Richard Briers, Judy Parfitt, Phyllis Calvert, Nicholas Farrell, Elizabeth Spriggs, and so on. There's something cozy about seeing so many familiar faces.

Despite that, the episode I think I like best has no guest stars I've ever seen before. I've forgotten the title, but it has the elderly couple devoted to marijuana. I love how Super Sleuth Barnaby is oblivious to the evidence right under his nose - LITERALLY - as he devours their special brownies. It's an all 'round fun episode.

Whenever I watch the show I can feel my IQ dropping. The show is cosy but it's so infuriatingly predictable. These days my only reason to watch the show is admiring Nick Hendrix in his tight pants. He used to visit my wank fantasies at some point.

Where's the tight pants, ayb?

R12, are you accusing me of being that little Nazi cunt? In any case you see his body and tight suit better in the show when he's moving around. I couldn't find any good pictures of it. At least he's packing something unlike his predecessor.

My PBS channel showed the same dozen episodes for 5 years.

"You've got a right cuntstable there."

OP, I'm doing the same! I never watched the series before, so I've about 18 seasons to go!

"Husband doesn't care for wife's cooking" motif was in Hitchcock's "Frenzy," 1972.

Love the "St. Mary Mead" quintessential British scenery.

Here you go, R5.

And his cute little butt.

I just discovered that Season 20 is now available for FREE on the IMDB channel. (It says "with ads," but I've watched the first two episodes and there were none.) There doesn't seem to be any way to get the IMDB channel on Roku, but I think it might work through Amazon Prime (Amazon owns IMDB.) I was able to watch it on my Amazon FireTV device.

The funny thing about this and most British shows is everyone looks "real" and not Hollywood bimbo types. If this was an American show Barnaby would have a 24 year old blonde wife with inflated tits and lips. His wife was a middle-aged matron and looked it. Awful haircut though.

It's such a lousy, tedious, boring and predictable (as has been noted) show.

And beneath that "cosiness" are messages of how hateful people are, including all the leading characters, how hectoring and controlling all the cunt-wives and cunt-daughters are, how low their interests are, how much the writers hate anyone with a title, money or pretensions to taste, and how soulless they think the countryside of England is.

Of course all the other "realistic" shows since 2000 would have you think that 40% of the English population derives directly from African colonials, that everyone who is Muslim is a murderer, especially of their own families, and that Indians are fools.

[quote]how much the writers hate anyone with a title, money or pretensions to taste

Bloody England and its class obsessions/hatreds.

[quote]His wife was a middle-aged matron and looked it. Awful haircut though.

Not true of the current wife.

The current DS has a nice body hiding under those suits.

Divine diva Elaine Paige is in the first episode of Season 20.

I like the newer Barnaby better than the old one. Is that heresy?

I'm loving burning through this show during the COVID-19 epidemic. Almost finished with the John Nettles episodes. Loved all the DTs so far, but was surprised that John Hopkins as Dan Scott didn't last very long. Loved the surprise visit of Daniel Casey as Troy for the Cully marriage episode. The show isn't kind to the British upper classes. Also, the gay characters tend to be stereotypes. Maybe that gets better.

I see each episode as a two-hour long show... how was the show presented in the U.K.? Was each episode one hour long with a cliffhanger and conclusion the following episode? And some seasons have many more episodes than others.

R27 As two hour episodes on the same night

When you watch it without ads on Prime/IMDB, it's a little over 90 minutes.

Just finished episode 4 of Season 20, which features [SPOILER ALERT!] the first man-on-man kiss in MSM history!

Filming begins on the 22nd series of Midsomer Murders

A spate of bizarre deaths will occur across middle England as filming begins on a new series of the much-loved ITV detective drama Midsomer Murders.

Neil Dudgeon returns to play DCI John Barnaby for his 10th year in the role, Nick Hendrix is back as DS Jamie Winter and Annette Badland resumes her role as pathologist Dr Fleur Perkins. Midsomer Murders is made by Bentley Productions, part of ALL3Media and is the UK’s top-rated drama export.

Also returning to film the 22nd series is Fiona Dolman as Sarah Barnaby followed closely by Paddy the dog as the Barnaby’s faithful canine companion. Guest cast for the first film includes Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Mark Williams (Father Brown) and Maimie McCoy (Van Der Valk). Further guest casting to be announced.

This series follows Barnaby and Winter as they investigate an urban myth becoming a murderous reality, a post-operative heart rehabilitation club whose members’ dreams of a second chance at life are cut short, a murder mystery weekend, a twisted scarecrow festival and an amateur dramatics company with deadly secrets.

Season 1 was enough for me. Substandard.

Ingredients for a MSM epi:

1) a pub and other scenes featuring drinking

2) a festival of some sort

3) some scenes filmed from above with a drone

4) menacing machinery of some sort

5) heavy reliance on mobile phones, esp. tracking and call lists

6) unhappy marriages in every episode

7) bone casting (as in, throw a one to) every B and C list Brit character actor & actress

Sorry that we never got to see Gwilym Lee shirtless.

i prefered the second to last sergent rather than current one

I think it would be a comedic device if little Paddy became an inveterate leg humper on the show.

Especially since Dr. Perkins keeps wanting to cut his bollocks off!

My friend loves it, always talks about it and shows me scenes from it, I just never got into it.