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Father Brown: The Devil's Dust (2013)
Douglas does not get his wish
**SPOILER ALERT**
This is a good solid episode of Father Brown Mysteries for a nimiety of reasons. It treats interraciality in a small London town with respect. This is quite a feat for the show, especially that it is set in the 1950s when folks across the pond were embroiled in the practice of segregation. I found it quite brave of the producers to have Ruth, a bi-racial girl light enough to pass for white, to walk arm-in-arm with her Black father through the town's streets. Imagine that happening in 1950s America. Douglas would not have lived to die his death of cancer. Kudos to Father Brown for putting Mrs. McCarthy in her place!
Midsomer Murders: Death of a Hollow Man (1998)
a most tenuous episode
This is the most tenuous episode of all the Midsomer Murders I have viewed. I worked so hard to figure out what was going on! I had to watch it 3 times, and at an hour and 42 minutes, that's a lot of time. It was such a challenge to excavate the fact that the first victim, Agnes and the perpetrator were in cahoots with exporting / importing stolen (?) religious artifacts--and I don't even know if that is true.
I felt like an anthropologist trying to find the right pieces to a shattered pot! As one reviewer said the first murder is all but forgotten and, when the inspectors finally get to it, the conclusion is nebulous.