Like other reviewers I was left a little sad by Breaking The Chain. It's just not the old MSM. There was not a vicar in sight, no upper class twit on the rampage, and the TCI (Thatched Cottage Index) was bumping along at rock bottom - only one was on show and that was the pub. The only bicycles to be seen were new - fangled racers and none had baskets on the handle bars.
I hope MSM isn't doing a "Bill Implosion" where we had to watch Jim and June snogging and cope with maniac coppers killing their own. They lost sight their core business, namely catching villains and chasing scrotes.
MSM's core business is Twee country crimes committed by upper - class twits in thatched cottages or in piles of the Gothic style. And there must be a vicar involved somewhere and there should be a woman on a horse at least once in the show. I love this quaint way of insane, vengeful criminality among the villages. This is what MSM is all about, well to me, at least.
My advice to the MSM producers is this: take a stroll down the lanes of Badger's Drift, peep in at the cottage windows and hang around the manor stables and breath in the atmosphere of crimes - gone by. Recapitulation, not innovation is the way forward here.