This episode can be compared only to "Sins of Commission" - they both are the worst episode MM-team has ever produced! Hoskins, who enjoyed me so much in "Hidden depths", disappointed me terribly with this "masterpiece". There's only one decent moment that deserved being mentioned - perfect play of Selina Cadel. Here the advantages come to their natural end. First of all, one can hardly imagine any other plot that could be less convincing than this one (except "Sins of Commision", of course!). I am ready to believe in aliens then in this dull story of "Midsomer Life"! Absolutely far-fetched. Then, what I didn't like either - the plot is split into many story lines that are very hard to follow, the mystery of the first dead body is revealed just in the end of the film, about the first dead body we learn only from Barnaby's exposing story, the second murder is being produced with the most strange weapon that one can only imagine, but the third murder - my God, I was under my table laughing while watching that! The culprit appears only towards the middle of the films and remains absolutely inactive during the film, so that when she was being exposed as a murderess I couldn't even recall her name! The motives for murders are not likely, it's hard to imagine that one could possibly kill 3 people for that (if one is not insane, of course), everything in this episode looks strained and not natural. I consider this episode as "the second worst" after "The Sins of Commissions".
Review of Midsomer Life
