There are a couple of families at odds here and that sets up the plot. A woman's body is found in a freezer. She has some property and the story evolves around interest in that property. A young woman is wise to value and that is pivotal. Wycliffe is almost psychic when it comes to reading people's faces. Lie detectors have nothing on him.
4 Reviews
2 more dead bodies in cornwall
sandcrab27718 February 2019
Seems that the weekly theme is to find dead bodies for wycliffe to investigate ... the investigation takes just long enough to culminate the episode ... you never see any off duty interaction between the police force personnel making the program very dull
The Tangled Web
Prismark1019 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It starts off with a funeral. Wycliffe is hoping to take a break but is called back into investigating a possibly suspicious death at a farmhouse.
Jane Rule has placed her mother's body in a freezer for some weeks. Her son is acting strange and he has suddenly disappeared.
At the same time Hilda Clemo a schoolgirl has also disappeared. She told her boyfriend that she was pregnant but she also seemed to be close with her art teacher who just happens to have a disabled wife.
Hilda is also related to Jane Rule. That had all attended a family funeral earlier.
I did like there being a good reason why the old lady's body was stuffed in the freezer. It was all to inherit a possible valuable painting under the terms of a will. It all depended on the last surviving sister taking everything.
It was nice that Wycliffe has a sense of fair play. Hinting to Jane Rule how she could keep the painting, knowing how much the money would help them.
Usefully, a character conveniently explains the complex family connections and how the will operated. It was all for the benefit of the viewer.
There really was no mystery as to who killed Hilda. Maybe some tighter direction was needed.
Several characters acted guilty and one person never said a word which sort of identified them as the murderer.
Jane Rule has placed her mother's body in a freezer for some weeks. Her son is acting strange and he has suddenly disappeared.
At the same time Hilda Clemo a schoolgirl has also disappeared. She told her boyfriend that she was pregnant but she also seemed to be close with her art teacher who just happens to have a disabled wife.
Hilda is also related to Jane Rule. That had all attended a family funeral earlier.
I did like there being a good reason why the old lady's body was stuffed in the freezer. It was all to inherit a possible valuable painting under the terms of a will. It all depended on the last surviving sister taking everything.
It was nice that Wycliffe has a sense of fair play. Hinting to Jane Rule how she could keep the painting, knowing how much the money would help them.
Usefully, a character conveniently explains the complex family connections and how the will operated. It was all for the benefit of the viewer.
There really was no mystery as to who killed Hilda. Maybe some tighter direction was needed.
Several characters acted guilty and one person never said a word which sort of identified them as the murderer.
They should try hiring actors
frieda-9236618 January 2023
These characters: the young man Clifford and his mother, do the most abyssmal acting I have witnessed in a long time. Clifford is a gorgeous guy, and this unfortunately works against him in this show. Because it appears he is aware of his own handsomeness in a proud sort of way one moment, then he realizes he is supposed to be emotionally and/or mentally challenged and switches to a goofy slavering idiot the next. If the actor wants to show off his face, this character was not the appropriate one for his efforts. Certainly beautiful people can have emotional or developmental issues, but they remain constant. And the actor who protrayed his mother in this episode was equally ineffectual if she was trying to appear emotionally distressed. When it all looks exactly like ACTING and not a believable telling of a story, it is a failure. I have this same complaint of many of the Wycliffe episodes -- casting or directing (one or the other or both) present us with overwrought and overly dramatic scenes that make it almost unwatchable.
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