Vera used to be a reasonably good show. It was easy to watch and not take too seriously. But the concept is starting to get a little comical now. The 77 year old detective huffing and puffing her way about rural Northumbria while her detectives sit in the CID office tapping computer keyboards and shuffling paper is just a little bit too silly to take remotely seriously.
The acting can on occasions be quite spotty and the North East accents are let's say a little bit off the mark. Even the plotlines are beginning to feel a bit too convoluted. This episode was particularly silly and Vera ended up breaking in a new rookie detective while locking horns with her superintendent (who looked more like a World War II SS Officer) and the new diverse police and crime commissioner.
It all got a little bit far fetched (even for Vera) and I was lost come the second lot of tv commercials. I faithfully stuck with it but by the end I co fess I was dozing off.
Time for Vera to hang up her big raincoat me thinks.
The acting can on occasions be quite spotty and the North East accents are let's say a little bit off the mark. Even the plotlines are beginning to feel a bit too convoluted. This episode was particularly silly and Vera ended up breaking in a new rookie detective while locking horns with her superintendent (who looked more like a World War II SS Officer) and the new diverse police and crime commissioner.
It all got a little bit far fetched (even for Vera) and I was lost come the second lot of tv commercials. I faithfully stuck with it but by the end I co fess I was dozing off.
Time for Vera to hang up her big raincoat me thinks.