Now we're having fun again. Dressed to Kill is full of camp humour, plot twists, revelations and some genuinely moving moments, the confrontation with the killer being especially so. All those having conniptions over drag queens in the village need to revisit the first ever series of Midsomer Murders, which featured a transvestite, a camp undertaker uttering a barely disguised four letter word and a pair of elderly hash cookie bakers.
In this episode, Felix Kai steals the show as the young, charismatic Malik, a drag queen with a past. Sophie Stone is a revelation and a wonderful talent to be able to see. (I was expecting John Barnaby to dust off his psychology degree and diagnose her character with Munchausen's by Proxy but he seems to have given that away these days.) The magic of the theatre is a theme with the old thespian finding a new lease of life and the power of Shakespeare to capture and express our deepest feelings. (Oh and the history of the theatre is full of cross-dressers, by the way.) The action is a little uneven, rather like the camera work in the first scene, but stick with it and you will be rewarded. Winter's weirdly asexual, wooden character finally cracks to reveal a sense of mischief and the scriptwriter even slips in an apt reference to Some Like It Hot at the end.
In this episode, Felix Kai steals the show as the young, charismatic Malik, a drag queen with a past. Sophie Stone is a revelation and a wonderful talent to be able to see. (I was expecting John Barnaby to dust off his psychology degree and diagnose her character with Munchausen's by Proxy but he seems to have given that away these days.) The magic of the theatre is a theme with the old thespian finding a new lease of life and the power of Shakespeare to capture and express our deepest feelings. (Oh and the history of the theatre is full of cross-dressers, by the way.) The action is a little uneven, rather like the camera work in the first scene, but stick with it and you will be rewarded. Winter's weirdly asexual, wooden character finally cracks to reveal a sense of mischief and the scriptwriter even slips in an apt reference to Some Like It Hot at the end.