![]() Plots range from quirky to genuinely heartbreaking (the episodes about Cat’s former bandmates and her ex-girlfriend hit you right where it hurts), with all the cozy murder classics of big houses and locked rooms as well as fun modern settings, like a crime-writing convention (very meta) and a day spa. ![]() Seeing multiple women in their fifties allowed to be complicated, unique individuals is frankly brilliant and something I’d like to see more of in TV. Each aunt is a delightfully different person: Cat (Julie Graham) is a former rockstar who still dresses the part, while Beth (Sarah Woodward) is a sweet natured hippie, and Jane (Siobhan Redmond) an eminently sensible, left-brained type. What’s a girl raised by three crime-writing aunts after her mother mysteriously disappeared to do but join the police force? That’s the path Matilda Stone (Olivia Vinall) takes in Queens of Mystery, in which the newly qualified constable has to contend with her deeply loving, meddling aunts getting involved in her investigations. Though there are serial plotlines (Creek and Magellan’s ongoing will-they-or-won’t-they, his eventual marriage, etc.), most episodes stand alone and can be watched that way, so if you can’t track down every season, it doesn’t really matter. Jonathan Creek is one of those crime shows with borderline supernatural elements that can actually be a little scary at times, though it stops short of the Midsomer Murders approach by having Creek uncover the very corporeal explanation behind the supposed paranormal phenomenon every time. Creek gets involved despite himself, which quickly becomes something of a pattern, until Maddie no longer needs to bribe or coerce him into helping her figure out the case du jour-even though their work regularly leads to one or both them nearly being murdered.Ī darkly funny show at times, Jonathan Creek is exceptional at satirizing the rich and famous, especially through the person of Adam Klaus, Creek’s philandering man-baby boss. After watching a performance by the magician Creek works for, crime reporter Maddie Magellan realizes that his particular skill set-ranging from clever engineering to the creation of illusions and complex puzzles-is exactly what she needs to prove the innocence of a suspect in a locked room murder mystery and expose what really happened. Witness the Inspectors Barnaby wade through cults, conspiracies, and such complex networks of sexy-murder they belong on The L Word, with a constant disgruntled practicality that will make you feel like you’re hanging out with your own dad while he complains about work (it’s father energy, not Daddy, let’s be very clear about that).Īn investigative journalist (Caroline Quentin) with little to no scruples meets an anti-social designer of magic tricks (Alan Davies), dragging him kicking and screaming into the mystery-solving business in Jonathan Creek. See the inbred aristocracy bump each other off with such ineffable smugness that, come episode’s end, you’ll be baying for everyone’s blood. Watch their iconically, comically middle-class wives do lovely, restful things, like join a painting class or am dram society, only to uncover heinous murder right in the midst of it (every damn time-that Joyce Barnaby belongs on a watch list). Join Inspector(s) Barnaby in the idyllic British country town of Causton and the surrounding areas, where so many people are murdered on a weekly basis it’s amazing there’s any population left at all. There are 23 seasons of Midsomer Murders (with even more in production), so you’re never going to run out. ![]() This is hands down, 100% the best British murder show around.
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