Midsomer Murders suffers, like most series, from episodes that are turkeys. It also is influenced by trends in the television industry, just like other series. What keeps the viewer loyal is a genuine effort to be true to the premise that hooked them in the first place. A show about the drag queen culture fails this contract on two counts. The drag queen culture that expands beyond the walls of gay nightclubs has little in common with traditional drag that we've all loved and which serves altogether different purposes. Almost no one is interested in the former. Second, the artistic constraints of MM is the quaint English village. It's not always easy to succeed but you know where you are. It may be marginally plausible that a London drag queen ends up in Midsomer County, but the rest of it lacks any believability. This episode asks the viewer to do all the work. It's not a rewarding effort.
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