Agatha gets to be more Agatha when Roy offers her an opportunity to do some PR work on behalf of the Ancombe mineral water company and we get a chance to see the powerhouse that made her rich. Plus she gets to have a bit of a romantic fling with Guy Freemont; and Agatha has always liked men. Besides her neighbor James Lacey is getting cozy with Mary Fortune. And James has decided he wants to play detective as the parish council chairman was murdered and Agatha is otherwise busy at nights. Then Agatha's PR plans go bust as her featured act for a village fete get busted for drugs; and her planned match to the spring ends up in a melee. Worse, they find Robina Toynbee, who owns the water rights, murdered and propped up in a local water fountain. Turns out Julia Owens had been threatening Robina and she paid some local roughs to start the fight during the march to spring. And Portia Salmond goes to see Agatha because she wants Agatha to end her relationship with Guy Freemont. Perhaps that might have been very good advice. And this episode has a real Agatha Raisin conclusion with some kudos to James and Bill Wong. And just maybe, James might be coming round.
2 Reviews
Lacking a spring in its step
Prismark1029 June 2016
This is the first episode of Agatha Raisin not directed by Geoffrey Sax and it is shown in the style of filming of the whodunit which was rather obvious which also had weaker humour.
The parish council have a heated meeting about a water company wanting to transport their water tankers through the village. The chairman defers his casting vote until the next morning but is found dead later on.
Agatha is persuaded by her friend Roy (Mathew Horne) to end up doing public relations for the water company, a charm exercise to reassure the villagers and she ends up taking her eye of the murder investigation especially as she falls for the charms of the head of the company Guy Freemont who kisses Agatha almost as soon as he meets her.
Well the series is aiming to be an off centre and off beat detective drama and so far has proved to be disappointing. The third episode gets no better. Trying to throw us off the scent by showing a few villagers looking shifty did not work for me.
The humour is rather facile and with a weak mystery this series is certainly going nowhere.
The parish council have a heated meeting about a water company wanting to transport their water tankers through the village. The chairman defers his casting vote until the next morning but is found dead later on.
Agatha is persuaded by her friend Roy (Mathew Horne) to end up doing public relations for the water company, a charm exercise to reassure the villagers and she ends up taking her eye of the murder investigation especially as she falls for the charms of the head of the company Guy Freemont who kisses Agatha almost as soon as he meets her.
Well the series is aiming to be an off centre and off beat detective drama and so far has proved to be disappointing. The third episode gets no better. Trying to throw us off the scent by showing a few villagers looking shifty did not work for me.
The humour is rather facile and with a weak mystery this series is certainly going nowhere.
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