This seemed like a story from a different TV series. Starting with everyone puking at the beginning of the episode due to the beer having gone bad thanks to a dead body in the vat. I have to think most people would notice sour beer when they taste it, not several pints later. I know I would.
That was the first hint, seeing everyone throwing up. Not a typical beginning to a Midsomer Murders episode. Then it just got weird, as some of the married women were clearly looking for extra love from other married men, and it was leading up to the town elders calling for a Stag Night.
It was obvious to me that the dirty fat old guys wanted to attack the young women, but the old fat girls were thinking they were the objects of attention. Maybe that point was intended as humour, but it came across as nasty and gross that everyone was willing to participate, no matter the consequences.
The ending and revealment of the murderers was anti-climactic. The villagers and their life priorities were pretty disappointing and low class, from Stag Night to killing tax men. The final scene was way over the top, and really over-acted by everyone. It seemed like they were trying to turn a really awful bit of fiction into MacBeth, and everyone worked extra hard to seem a lot more terrified, passionate, sincere, and excited than they needed to be. Seemed like a train-wreck.
When John Nettles was on as Barnaby, this kind of thing would never happen.
That was the first hint, seeing everyone throwing up. Not a typical beginning to a Midsomer Murders episode. Then it just got weird, as some of the married women were clearly looking for extra love from other married men, and it was leading up to the town elders calling for a Stag Night.
It was obvious to me that the dirty fat old guys wanted to attack the young women, but the old fat girls were thinking they were the objects of attention. Maybe that point was intended as humour, but it came across as nasty and gross that everyone was willing to participate, no matter the consequences.
The ending and revealment of the murderers was anti-climactic. The villagers and their life priorities were pretty disappointing and low class, from Stag Night to killing tax men. The final scene was way over the top, and really over-acted by everyone. It seemed like they were trying to turn a really awful bit of fiction into MacBeth, and everyone worked extra hard to seem a lot more terrified, passionate, sincere, and excited than they needed to be. Seemed like a train-wreck.
When John Nettles was on as Barnaby, this kind of thing would never happen.