{"id":2304,"date":"2006-03-09T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2018-08-23T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:53:08","slug":"persky-1980-serial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"MidComer Murders [television series]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9706\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9706\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/06-03-09-VIEW-MidSomer-Murders-television-series.jpg\" alt=\"06-03-09 VIEW MidSomer Murders [television series]\" width=\"140\" height=\"208\"><\/a>I love all of the \u201cMid\u00adSomer Mur\u00adders\u201d.&nbsp;John Net\u00adtles&nbsp;(as the Chief inspec\u00adtor) and Daniel Casey (as his bone-head\u00aded side-kick).&nbsp;The pro\u00adduc\u00adtion val\u00adues are first-rate, the act\u00ading top-notch, the scripts are well-writ\u00adten.&nbsp;Every one of the tiny, pic\u00adturesque vil\u00adlages in the fic\u00adtion\u00adal Eng\u00adlish coun\u00adty of Mid\u00adSomer is seething with hate, jeal\u00adousy, secret sins, thwart\u00aded ambi\u00adtions, star-crossed love, kinky sex, and mur\u00adder, mur\u00adder, mur\u00adder.&nbsp;Detroit and South L.A. have noth\u00ading on Mid\u00adSomer vil\u00adlages like Bad\u00adger\u2019s Drift, Ferne Bas\u00adset, Aspern Tal\u00adlow, and Mid\u00adsomer Mal\u00adlow. Styl\u00adis\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly, the def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly sits in the \u201ccosy\u201d tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Eng\u00adlish mys\u00adter\u00adies, the her\u00aditage of Agatha Christie.&nbsp;Net\u00adtles cre\u00adates one of the most like\u00adable fic\u00adtion\u00adal detec\u00adtives on the screen.&nbsp;There are plen\u00adty of neat lit\u00ader\u00adary ref\u00ader\u00adences to catch (espe\u00adcial\u00adly to Jacobean dra\u00adma) for those who take plea\u00adsure in such things, and plen\u00adty of wit\u00adty jibes at con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary mores for those who are more present-ori\u00adent\u00aded.&nbsp;The mys\u00adtery plots are absurd\u00adly improb\u00ada\u00adble, in the best Agatha Christie tradition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love all of the \u201cMid\u00adSomer Mur\u00adders\u201d.&nbsp;John Net\u00adtles&nbsp;(as the Chief inspec\u00adtor) and Daniel Casey (as his bone-head\u00ad\u00aded side-kick).&nbsp;The pro\u00adduc\u00adtion val\u00adues are first-rate, the act\u00ading top-notch, the scripts are well-writ\u00adten.&nbsp;Every one of the tiny, pic\u00adturesque vil\u00adlages in the fic\u00adtion\u00adal Eng\u00adlish county&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2304\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-du-viewing-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9709,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}