My wife and I normally really enjoy Midsomer Murders, but not this episode. Several things happened in the last half hour that made Tom and Ben just look like idiots the way they were fooled. Behavior from some of the other characters didn't make sense either. Why did Tom just stand there watching Matilda burn the rest of the book instead of taking it away from her? Why didn't he call for backup when driving to Matilda's art school when she was presumably in danger from the Texan? Why didn't Patricia transfer the money from translucent plastic bags into suitcases before getting on the plane? Why did she and the Texan assume that they could destroy the fakes without anyone noticing and that the Causton police wouldn't say anything? Wouldn't releasing the black book, which would prove the forgeries, accomplish the same thing to make the real ones more valuable? Why would Tom let the Texan walk off with the black book when it was prime evidence in the murder? There seemed to be no concern about chain of custody or getting fingerprints.
It would be one thing if the show never cared about such sloppy writing but it usually isn't, that's what made the sloppiness stand out.
Also, the nudity seemed pretty gratuitous. Not that I've normally got anything against that but it seemed very out of place on Midsomer.
It would be one thing if the show never cared about such sloppy writing but it usually isn't, that's what made the sloppiness stand out.
Also, the nudity seemed pretty gratuitous. Not that I've normally got anything against that but it seemed very out of place on Midsomer.