08-31-2018, 10:18 AM
(05-04-2015, 02:31 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: My latest binge series has been BBC's Death in Paradise, which relies heavily on the Castle formula, arguably more so than the Mentalist did. The first two seasons are on Netflix.
I poked back into Death in Paradise because Season 7 said 'new eps' on Netflix. And there's a new detective. DI Humphrey decided to stay with his love in London in a two-part transitional episode in Season 6, and now DI Mooney steps into the lead. Frankly, the show lost it for me when Camille exited at the end of Season 4. Mooney has a t'ick Irish lilt and is funnier than Humphrey, who was a bit of a lost soul. I suppose it's sweet that they wrote him out finding love in the end, because his crushes on Camille and Florence was a bit icky. I kind of wish they wrote him out like they wrote out the original DI Poole at the beginning of Season 3 because that was awesome.
The series has become more formulaic than ever but there seems to be more reggae in the soundtrack and the settings are more beautiful. The Saint Marie patois no longer works for me anymore. I'm not planning to watch more of this really. It was just an excuse to ttt this old thread.
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