Midsomer Murders: Written in Blood (1998)
Season 1, Episode 2
9/10
Excellent but could have been better
1 November 2023
As others have written, I too am amazed at the quality of this 100 minute television program. It is better than almost any other episode of any other mystery series that I have ever seen -- and I'm 70 years old.

But there is a problem keeping it from being even better. One of the subplots (of course there are always subplots) suddenly takes an utterly bizarre and totally unnecessary twist. It is a ridiculous distraction. I don't want to go into any more detail, but, good heavens: what were they thinking? It's as if in the middle of a Star Trek episode Kirk, Bones, and Spock sat down on the bridge to play strip poker for ten minutes. Whaaaa????

Also I didn't like the very last scene. The comeuppance to the villain is rather stereotypical. But that is minor and easily forgiven given the excellent and very creative main ideas.
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