I certainly agree with the reviewer, mar9tin, from July of 2012. All the episodes I have watched since John Barnaby replaced Tom have been a sore disappointment to me. Some of the things spoken and implied are quite disgusting to me, and the plotting is atrocious. Perhaps my interest in Midsomer Murders has run its course. It was the last hold out against the modern trend away from cozy mysteries into the dark world of hard-boiled police procedurals. Poirot, Marple, Wimsey, Holmes, Morse, Frost, Dalgliesh, Campion, Lynley and Foyle and maybe Dangerous Davies, have all been good entertainment for the most, but we've run out of the special kind of inspiration that seems to have created and perpetuated those stories with their interesting characters.
Review of Echoes of the Dead
