Midsomer Murders: Set 10
by Peter Smith, Renny Rye, Richard Holthouse, Sarah Hellings
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Actor: Barry Jackson, Jane Wymark, Jason Hughes, John Nettles, Laura HowardDirector: Peter Smith, Renny Rye, Richard Holthouse, Sarah Hellings
Brand: ACORN MEDIA
Writer: Andrew Payne
Writer: Barry Purchese
Writer: Caroline Graham
Writer: David Harsent
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Reviews of Midsomer Murders: Set 10
DVD Review: How British Cops Handle Insanity
Summary: 5 Stars
In the fictional county of Midsomer, murder rates per capita are higher than Chicago, Detroit, and New Orleans combined - but not by much!
The pluses for this series are: this is fiction, the scenery is much better, there is a lot of tongue-in-cheek British humor, and John Nettles is an excellent actor and humorist. Jane Wymark, as Barnaby's wife, also does a great job along with Laura Howard and Jason Hughes.
If you like multiple who-dun-its woven within one story, this series is for you.
DVD Review: An Excellent Series
Summary: 5 Stars
MIDSUMER MURDERS remains a compelling series even though Troy is no longer a part of the cast. Troy's replacement leaves quite a lot to be desired but he was soon replaced with a far more interesting partner for Barnaby. One of the best things about this series is that Barnaby doesn't have to put up with a lot of nonsense from a superior officer. This has become such a trite and tiresome gimmick in so many other detective series. Barnaby is always charming, witty, and personable as is his devoted wife. The daughter's a bit of a drag and certainly lacks her parents' charisma but she's serviceable. I've seen many different detective series from Britain and America, and this is among the very best.DVD Review: An everyday story of country folk
Summary: 5 Stars
This show continues in the fine English traditions of whodunits.
Not as cerebral as Morse, set in a fictional area as opposed to a specific one to utilise much of the beautiful countryside locations, yet drawing on the same pool of British actors across the years, Midsomer Muders is like the pudding which serves as desert for the evening meal - outwardly bland but with a scrumptious plesant and satisfying interior.
These stories are replete with visions of warm beer and simpler times, a vision conjured up for tourists but which many Brits believe in. Throughout the show there have been considerable variations in the quality of the productions from some quite mediocre to a few excellent ones.
This set has an outstanding story of avarice and revenge with excellent acting but the other stories are more like shadows of episodes of Inspector Morse where the similarities, though disguised, are too great to ignore.
However, the one story makes buying the whole set so worthwhile.
So enjoy your roast beef and two veg, and dig into the sponge pudding with custard and savour the long sunny days of an English summer, as the cricket dominates the television until the last over is played.
DVD Review: Particularly Strong Mysteries in this Series
Summary: 5 Stars
"Midsomer Murders Set Ten"is a boxed, 4 volume set of four contemporary, stand-alone British mysteries, each approximately 100 minutes long, from a popular British TV hit. The television series first aired in the United Kingdom in March, 1997. In the United States, the series has been seen on "A & E" and "The Biography Channel." New episodes are still in production (more than 60 full-length mysteries have already aired.) The characters are based on those created by Caroline Graham; the series was originally adapted by acclaimed scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz (Foyle's War: Series 1-5 - From Dunkirk to VE-Day.) Special features include a Graham biography and cast filmographies, but, unfortunately, no subtitles, as all the characters speak rather softly, and John Nettles, the series' star, tends to swallow his words. However, you should be able to follow the action well enough without the subtitles.
The series is set in the fictional, lovely, countryside village of Midsomer; and it certainly is green, quaint, and scenic. It's a classic "cozy" setting; lovely village, denizens upset by a murder, villain found; everything back to normal again. It stars John Nettles (BERGERAC ); as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, hard-working family man and astute detective, and John Hopkins (Love in a Cold Climate) as his assistant Sergeant Dan Scott. The series also features many esteemed guest stars, including Annette Crosbie, Oliver Ford Davies, Owen Teale, June Whitfield, Geoffrey Whitehead, and David Burke. Unfortunately, I still find Nettles' character Barnaby to be rather the hole in the donut, nor does Hopkins' character Scott add much flavor. But the supporting players all bring a lot of spice to the screen, and the makers haven't stinted in the making of this series. Plenty of extras, animal and human, lots of local color. And these four mysteries are particularly strong. They are:
1.Second Sight. Villagers in Midsomer Mere claim psychic powers; a mysterious death brings Barnaby and Scott into their midst.
2.Hidden Depths. A series of bizarre murders; Chateau Laffite wine used as an extremely expensive murder weapon.
3.Sauce for the Goose. A visitor dies an unappetizing death while touring Plummer's relish factory.
4.Midsomer Rhapsody. Successful local composer Joan Alder has been dead for decades, is half-forgotten, until a series of odd events revives interest in her life and work.
This TV series is really quite enjoyable; the mysteries are challenging, interesting, many-layered, off-beat. And original - you won't see anything like them anywhere else.
DVD Review: Great series
Summary: 5 Stars
Type of series you can watch over & over again and see something new every time.
Description of Midsomer Murders: Set 10
As seen on A&E and The Biography ChannelWHAT EVIL LURKS BEYOND THE WELL-TRIMMED HEDGES OF MIDSOMER . . .
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with John Hopkins (Love in a Cold Climate) as his brash young assistant, Sergeant Dan Scott. Guest stars include Oliver Ford Davies, Annette Crosbie, Owen Teale, June Whitfield, Geoffrey Whitehead, and David Burke.
THE MYSTERIES
Second Sight -- A mysterious death brings the detectives to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers.
Hidden Depths -- Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite.
Sauce for the Goose -- After a visitor dies while touring Plummer's relish factory, Barnaby and Scott investigate the local food wars.
Midsomer Rhapsody -- Barnaby links a long-deceased local composer with odd events that crescendo to a murderous conclusion.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE Caroline Graham biography and cast filmographies.
Gruesome doings in bucolic villages make Midsomer Murders an addictive British detective series. Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles), a staunch, determined policeman with a nose for sniffing out motives and crucial mistakes, investigates murders in this bizarrely homicidal rural district, accompanied by the younger, not as insightful, but still dutiful Sergeant Scott (John Hopkins). Set 10 features three superb episodes and one disappointing one (which, confusingly enough, are from the show's eighth series on the BBC). Each episode is a 90-100 minute movie, cunningly structured so the solution always seems just out of reach yet tantalizingly close. The characters are well-developed and rarely feel like mere puppets designed to distract viewers from an inevitable solution; the psychological richness of the show is crucial to its appeal. In Second Sight, a young lad may have died from electric shocks delivered during tests of his extrasensory powers. As Barnaby struggles to separate science from superstition, he comes across an ominous caged chair, a psychic baby, and a man who fears he's foreseen his own death. Hidden Depths features some truly spectacular revenge killings, including one using a catapult and many bottles of wine; the episode is practically a genteel (and less pretentious) version of Saw or Seven. Sauce for the Goose turns the prosaic setting of a relish factory into a swirling crucible of madness, secrets, lost love, and boiled flesh. Only Midsomer Rhapsody, in which the possibly forged manuscript of a dead composer results in a variety of head traumas, founders in melodramatic backstory. But even when the show isn't at its sharpest, Nettles drives each episode forward with his charismatic blend of compassion and doggedness. Viewers usually resistant to crime-show formulas may find Midsomer Murders more compelling than most, while any fan of mysteries will be hooked in seconds. --Bret Fetzer
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