Midsomer Murders

[ER]

I'm not sure why but last winter I suddenly found myself with an extra hour a day on my hands and I started watching this satirical celebration of rural English life set in idyllic Midland villages where murder was the leading cause of death. I loved seeing the quiet capable detective solve crimes without raising his voice or missing tea, so I breezed through the first seven series before the body count became higher than Madonna's and, like many of Madonna's afore-referenced paramours, I needed to come up for air, but I think I'll go back in this fall and finish out the series.

My favorite death so far? An archaeologist bashed on the skull by a bag of Saxon gold coins. Forget heart disease, you'd get bragging rights on the other side with a weird demise like that.

[Allhallowsday]

I used to hum the theme music to my sister-in-law who watched Midsomer Murders.  She loved that English murder crap. 

[BoyScoutKevin]

Another one of my favorite British mystery series, which I faithfully watched on TV, when I still had a TV. Broadcast over 20 or 21  seasons from 1997 to 2019, it was originally based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby series of mysteries, but, when they ran out of books, the TV series continued with original stories. But, ER is right, the series featured some of the most bizarre murder methods ever seen in a TV series. Though, there is one question I've never seen answered, who had the highest murder rate per capita, this or Cabot Cove (Maine) in Muder, She Wrote?