fun ... with a touch of murder

hamlet-16

What a nice bit light murder for a Sunday evening.

Bath looks beautiful (comparisons with Oxford are obvious). The music is jaunty. The script is passable. The acting fun. What is there not to like?

This is not great noir drama with seething passions and deep neuroses and set in deep dark greyness. We are in Midsomer not Morse territory.

I know people seem to have disliked this as too coy too old fashioned too conventional. But this is a genre pierce not cutting edge drama. A comfortable Sunday evening entertainment. A guilty pleasure perhaps.

And you know that I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Bath but now I really must get back to the library!

score 8/10

hamlet-16 4 March 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5525796/