Ben Miller channelling Hugh Grant in a sort of Doc Martin rip-off set abroad.
It was all "oh aren't the locals idiots?" and I found it a bit well racist actually. If that's not too strong a word.
And it was Doc Martin with a police officer instead of a doctor.
Hahahaha.
It wasn't so much racist - I'm sure all the black actors didn't find it such - it was more a bit undemanding and cartoonish.
And I found the "I've solved the case" a bit too quick.
It was OK, more Ellery Queen than Doc Martin. And not racist.
Shows age
Wasn't the 'senior police official with posh voice' the black posh actor from 'Rising Damp'?
What a load of pants, though.
I'll still watch it next week of course. There's nothing else on at that time. It was very ITV though.
Wasn't the 'senior police official with posh voice' the black posh actor from 'Rising Damp'?
And one of them was Cat in Red Dwarf.
Yeah I know.
It really is thin fare, even being filmed on a gorgeous Caribbean island can't seem to spice it up. And to think that the BBC scrapped 'Zen', which was ace.
Anyway, Gary Carr blogs about being in it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/11/death-in-paradise.shtml
I quite liked it. Although the resulution at the end was all very sudden and left me going "Huh?"
I quite liked it too. If anything, I thought Ben Miller's character was stereotyped.
Although the resulution at the end was all very sudden and left me going "Huh?"
Same here. It was presented as a 'Closed Room' type of mystery, which I enjoy. Then suddenly it wasn't CR at all.
My mother reckons he's very different to in Primeval. I don't think so.
I guessed this one straight away though I didn't know why the person had done it.
I figured it would be like last week's where the person who reported it would have done it.
It's Poirot crossed with Doc Martin.
Doc Martin is a fair comparison.
Frankly I'd take it over Zen any day. If ever there was a show that was 'all fur coat and no knickers' it's that one. I put it on cos I was bored with Arsenal and Marseilles, and it filled an hour more pleasantly than watching Theo Walcott fall over.