Midsomer Murders - Echoes of the Dead [DVD]

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Midsomer Pastures is on the map due to its famous connection with producing the Midsomer Blue cheese. When Debbie Moffett is lured to the caves and is subsequently bludgeoned by a wheel of cheese, it leads the detectives to investigate both the secret, controversial plans to modernize the dairy and the private lives of the parents of children at the local preparatory school in the same village. During the family dinner, Poppy Ordish, daughter of Beatrix Ordish and Oliver Ordish, refuses to eat beef. When more people are killed, long-held secrets about the dairy, school, and villagers are revealed and play a key role in catching the killer. In the end, John, Sarah, Sykes the dog, Ben, and Kate celebrate the Barnabys' 15th anniversary.

Barnaby and Jones investigate the death of a young woman, found in her bath tub, the investigation leads to strange goings on, voyeuristic landlords etc. Earlier on, we are tipped who the guilty person is. How? Well. throughout the history of MSM the Christian religion has received quite a bit of bad treatment by the writers/producers. And here, early on, shortly after the first victim is discovered, the man that is the murderer is sitting at the local pub. Where he tells those near him that they ought to go to the local church and pray for the victim's soul Their reactions to this tells it all. Had I been more alert I would have known that he was the murderer, it is all so obvious.

Her career started as a child in the television series Woof! [1] She is known for a series of television roles including Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites. [3] Sparkhouse ( Red Production Company/ BBC 2002) and her appearance in Jane Hall (Red Production Company/ ITV1 2006) marked a link between Smart and television writer Sally Wainwright. Between 2008 and 2012, she played Ann-Britt Höglund in Wallander, nine feature-length adaptations of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, for the BBC. Smart has also been featured in a number of radio dramas. In 2011, she appeared in a two-part story for the sixth series of the BBC series Doctor Who as the sympathetic 'villain' of The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People. [4] Selected filmography [ edit ] Neil Dudgeon is a great actor, but unfortunately his first two Midsomer episodes were frankly terrible, as they were written by the dreadful Michael Aitkens who simply writes pantomime characters and simplistic stories. Instead I'm going to concentrate on how this series has been depleted by the loss of John Nettles and the Barnaby family. The body of Mahesh Sidana, butterfly collector and founding member of an elite IQ society, is found pinned to a wall in a manner akin to his treasured butterfly specimens. This is the first of a series of strange murders that evoke trapped insects. DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are thrust into a crime that impacts not only their community, but internationally. With the help of an old friend, they set out to catch the culprit before another victim is found.

The script is a mess with weak dialogue and characters, who are not very interesting to be honest. Neil Dudgeon gives his worst performance as John Barnaby, he is not into the story and comes off arrogant towards his partner. Most of the subplots go nowhere and the violence in the story is quite to take at times. The solution (Mr. Orchard is the murderer) is very obvious and the motives for the murders are laughable at best. John Barnaby does not even figure out the killer's identity! New Causton DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer county. Years earlier, the body of a renowned racing car driver had been found at the prestigious Darnley Park Girls School, apparently having committed suicide with a revolver. The school is now hosting a vintage car rally, but the event is disrupted by the death of one of the judges, a local celebrity DJ. Initially, his death is also presumed to be suicide, but Barnaby soon spots evidence suggesting that both victims had been murdered.

The denouement is silly as well, we really cannot believe this man would do these killings for the reason given. Farce, really. And John Barnaby gets really upset at one murder only. Yep, the female who wanted to have a same-sex marriage sets him off.

Not really much on offer in terms of mystery, you kind of know who it is within the first ten minutes, as said person is made far too questionable, an effort made to capture the feeling of revulsion of the crimes of George Joseph Smith, The Brides in the Bath, but somehow it misses the mark. The treatment that this Barnaby gives Jones is bad. At one point he refers to Jones as a donkey. And this Barnaby loves to laud his degree in psychology over Jones. Boorish at the least. His (Barnaby's) air of superiority is a big fail, one wonders if future episodes will tone this boorish behavior down. It is a real drag.Not a huge lover of the characters in this one, Malcolm and his parents, almost nonsensical, utterly unbelievable, Pam Ferris was utterly wasted, and again her character as head of a Donkey Sanctuary seemed a wee bit silly. I did really like Sarah Smart's Jo Starling on the other hand, such a likable actress, she always adds something.