Boo
Light murder mysteries for those who want a little sass with their mayhem. The characters are charming and likable. I love them all from Dot, Bert, et al, to the costumes and the Art Deco design on those dark turquoise walls. It's a shame it's not still in production. But if anyone can point me towards a music list or a soundtrack . . .
Ferd Berfel
Essie is such a delight. She's a Thoroughly Modern Millie in the flesh. Being a Yank, the setting is great because it's 'new". My wife and I really enjoy the characters and the plots. The whole thing is just good fun to watch. If you like detective dramas but are a tad burned out on the usual fare then by all means give this a try!
imopeixoto-ca
I am a fan of mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and of course Jessica Fletcher on Murder, she wrote are my favourites. Miss Fletcher Murder Mysteries is a "old recipe" with good stories and finally a police officer that is not a complete zero, he actually helps a lot!! The idea is good and on the 20's-30's is refreshing! My compliments to the cast, very well chosen, great actors. And finally something outside Hollywood with a great quality! Keep up the good work!
Absalom1991
I am surprised at the applause this shabby, smarmy, self-congratulatory show received from reviewers here. The writing is lazy, the characters mere stock, the performances sophomoric, the too-theatrical clothes ill-fitting (except for the star's), and the plots tediously predictable and uncreative, as well as plain dumb. Claims that there is wit in the series obviously came from someone for whom the term is a stranger.Apparently this is what is considered a "woman's show," meaning if they stuff it with enough hats and male-victimized ladies who also behave a in crudely "worldly" fashion they don't think they need to bother with actual qualities of merit. If I were a woman I would be offended at the sham. As a man I can add that I do not appreciate being slapped across the face by faux sexism every five minutes. Emasculation as a constant theme is tedious. The smug and humorless silliness starts with the supposed sleuth, Miss Fischer - too mature for her look and behavior - with the first episode, as she manages to arrive by ship, entertain a "non-feminized" female doctor friend, head for lunch, encounter a murder there along with her clumsily portrayed dragon aunt, become involved with a poor unfortunate abortion victim in hospital (fired that morning by the murder victim and cared for by the aforementioned doctor), go to a prison to confront the murderer of her sister, and undertake the job of undertaking a soirée to take place the next night AT THE HOUSE OF THE MURDER VICTIM, changing her clothes five times in the process prior to the sun setting.It is an insult to the genre. It fails as a spoof, a comedy of manners, a detective show, a sex romp, a period piece, a social commentary or a camp send-up. The gratuitous nods to "women getting their own" are deplorably shabby. The main character is inexorably reduced to appearing as a condescending b*tch.It aims at the lowest notions of what women, not to mention viewers in general, want. In the process it treats the viewer as a drooling stooge to be titillated by inauthentic and clumsy burlesque. That it does so while pretending to invoke serious matters of drug addiction, murder, and the kidnap and drugged abortion of an abused young woman shows that this show is at heart cynically mean-spirited. I suggest that people approving the enterprise fit the description appearing in the second sentence of this paragraph. Shame on the team cranking this thing out.
