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Murdoch Mysteries: Winston's Lost Night (2013)
Out of Character
I have been rooting for the love story between Murdoch and Julia, but find her petulant insistence that he get over his silly faith and do things her way, and his ever so faint struggle before he says, "Oh, ok" to be totally story-crippling. He has been staunchly principled to this point, so this is either a modern reading-in or a total misunderstanding of the Catholic understanding of marriage as no big deal of the script writers (which I could believe, given how the episode with Murdoch's sister the Sister was portrayed). This was lame and it basically shot a hole through the premise of who these characters have developed into over five years.
Murdoch Mysteries: Voices (2011)
So many details off
I love the series. But this episode has so many wonky details surrounding Catholic practice and religious life that it is evident the producers didn't run it by a practicing Catholic for basic accuracy checks. For example, Sisters processing to bury one of their own would not being singing Ave Verum Corpus, a hymn for Corpus Christi. And to say a priest only ever came to the convent for confession and Vespers? How about Mass? Vespers would normally be prayed by Sisters alone. Yes, I know it's only a TV show, and I'm sure there are lots of scientific details that are wonky also, but I also think someone researches those details for at least a couple of minutes.