Midsomer Murders

[altariel]

Midsomer Murders is being repeated every afternoon on ITV1, so we've been recording them and watching them - and it's weird. Sinister. The plots are absolutely daft, but there's something mesmerizing about the whole show. It seems to be set somewhere that's not quite here, and not quite now, and I think the time and the place might be Hell.

Oh, Orlando Bloom was in the one we watched last night - before he was famous - and he was in cahoots with the chap who plays Brutus in Rome. Genre-shock! Also, there was a house in it called Lothlorien, and a whole exchange about Tolkien. But, presumably, this was all before Orli got famous for the whole Elf thing. Wooo, spooky.

John Nettles is very good in it. And it gets the most bizarrely sparkly cast of stars. Well, British character actors but, dammit, they're stars in this house.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I've caught a few of those, and enjoyed them. Of course I recognised John Nettles because I used to be an avid watcher of "Bergerac".

The plots are absolutely daft, but there's something mesmerizing about the whole show.

I think part of the appeal is that it doesn't really matter whodunnit, it's fun just for the people-watching.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's real slump in front of the telly stuff. Also because, as you say, the whodunnit doesn't really matter, I can do something else at the same time and not really miss much.