Oh yes. They had a special 100th episode where they went to Scandinavia. Can’t remember it exactly, but I think it may have had a crossover with a Scandi-noir series.
I ask the same question that the reporter ask when my housemate introduced to me that series. I couldn’t remember the name of the show but it has this exact premise, a murder every episode, all set in a small English country village.
The writer got the idea for the title from the Somerset town of Midsomer Norton, just down the road from me, although geographically I think it’s meant to be set in a more Devon-like place.
I mean, they did eventually cotton on and changed the setting from just one villiage to the entire county
…though it’s still very suspicious that every week those same detectives find people murderered wherever they go. I mean, I’m not saying corilation is causation, but I am saying some of their co-workers might want to look into that :D
my fiancee and I watch this show they have 18 series of it on netflix. currently rewatching it when I pulled up this comic and immediately recognized it. Also Midsomer county is most likely based on summerset county which if each series is one years time in their world then they actually have a smaller murder rate than the real life equivalence.
Well you see just not far from the main county is an ancient witch burial ground and-
There is no real reason (as far as I can remember) why it keeps happening, a lot of it down to emotive reasons (affairs, cheated out of money, grudge)
What it does centre on is the idea that “it cannot possibly happen here” which in this case ideal English country life. Basically people move to the countryside because they don’t expect crime, socially we accept crime being in the cities becuase of stress and greater gaps in wealth and equality along employment vs amount of unemployment. Then you have physical deterrents like security cameras, so with regards to cities and even towns we acknolege there will be crime there.
This isn’t true though with the case of Midsomer murders (thanks for the correction) or maybe when I first watched the several seasons as it was set in an tranquil country setting. While locations were different they were generally in nice settings.
It’s all about why is there trouble in this “paradise”
It helped they had generally well written characters and balanced the humour and drama.
Thanks to you, I just understand now why I don’t follow this series as faithfully as I did. It’s a keystone in my family, the one series we watch together every sunday night, but for the last few years, I just… can’t. And for some time I’ve been wondering why, because the newer episodes follow the same pattern as the older ones and I still watch the older ones with pleasure.
And you made me realize: they do follow the same pattern, to a T even. But they’re shallow. The pattern is too bare, there is not much being added: the red-string characters are not very interesting to follow in their “private” lifes and the suspects-of-the-week are nothing more than the shameful-secret-havers that have to be unmasked.
Sorry, my family is from northern Arkansas, and that seems like adequate provocation to kill someone.
And I could have gotten away wit it too if it were not for those rhubarb crumble crumbs!
It usually evens itself out though. All those murders are offset by all the adulterous baby making they do.
This looks to be a parody of midsummer murders.
Looks like?
Tell me again how you reached Sergeant, Troy/Scott/Jones*? The clues are literally littered everywhere!
(*not Nelson/Winter, this is blatantly the Tom Barnaby era, and not the John Barnaby era!)
More of a double take, saw the clues but never thought it got overseas audiance or just known.
Ironic thing is I think there has been episodes where people have been murdered over less then envy on that show.
Oh yes. They had a special 100th episode where they went to Scandinavia. Can’t remember it exactly, but I think it may have had a crossover with a Scandi-noir series.
I ask the same question that the reporter ask when my housemate introduced to me that series. I couldn’t remember the name of the show but it has this exact premise, a murder every episode, all set in a small English country village.
It’s midsummer murders, to be perfectly honest i never expected it to be aired outside the UK.
Its spelt “Midsomer Murders”. Because its set in the fictional county of Midsomer rather than the point of summer that is neither beginning nor end
The writer got the idea for the title from the Somerset town of Midsomer Norton, just down the road from me, although geographically I think it’s meant to be set in a more Devon-like place.
I mean, they did eventually cotton on and changed the setting from just one villiage to the entire county
…though it’s still very suspicious that every week those same detectives find people murderered wherever they go. I mean, I’m not saying corilation is causation, but I am saying some of their co-workers might want to look into that :D
my fiancee and I watch this show they have 18 series of it on netflix. currently rewatching it when I pulled up this comic and immediately recognized it. Also Midsomer county is most likely based on summerset county which if each series is one years time in their world then they actually have a smaller murder rate than the real life equivalence.
Somerset county speaking as a native
I … don’t understand how there can be so mann murders in Mid Summer. Can some one explain why these things keep hapening there?
Well you see just not far from the main county is an ancient witch burial ground and-
There is no real reason (as far as I can remember) why it keeps happening, a lot of it down to emotive reasons (affairs, cheated out of money, grudge)
What it does centre on is the idea that “it cannot possibly happen here” which in this case ideal English country life. Basically people move to the countryside because they don’t expect crime, socially we accept crime being in the cities becuase of stress and greater gaps in wealth and equality along employment vs amount of unemployment. Then you have physical deterrents like security cameras, so with regards to cities and even towns we acknolege there will be crime there.
This isn’t true though with the case of Midsomer murders (thanks for the correction) or maybe when I first watched the several seasons as it was set in an tranquil country setting. While locations were different they were generally in nice settings.
It’s all about why is there trouble in this “paradise”
It helped they had generally well written characters and balanced the humour and drama.
correction was meant to say “greater gaps in wealth and Inequality”
Thanks to you, I just understand now why I don’t follow this series as faithfully as I did. It’s a keystone in my family, the one series we watch together every sunday night, but for the last few years, I just… can’t. And for some time I’ve been wondering why, because the newer episodes follow the same pattern as the older ones and I still watch the older ones with pleasure.
And you made me realize: they do follow the same pattern, to a T even. But they’re shallow. The pattern is too bare, there is not much being added: the red-string characters are not very interesting to follow in their “private” lifes and the suspects-of-the-week are nothing more than the shameful-secret-havers that have to be unmasked.
And she would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling middle aged officers of the law!
Detective Chief Inspector? Is the whole of it an actual title, or is it like a super named Captain Cape?
Did he just confirm Cthulhu and the old ones exist?