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Originally Posted by issybird
I got bogged down in Season Five. The last time I’d watched an episode was in November so I thought I’d give it a try last night and got about halfway through the episode and stopped.
Jack Deam is dreadful and losing both Sid and Felicia put a fork in it. Without them, Mrs. McCarthy has no one to play off and Bunty is irritating when she’s not just dull, dull, dull. I also think the plots aren’t as good, but wasn’t as important when the cast could have fun with the material.
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Yes, I found Bunty super-irritating too and honestly, I don't feel she gets any better with age. I can't be the only one, though, as she's become increasingly invisible later on in the series--right around the time that they started bringing Sid and Lady Montague back. (So, just in case anybody in the audience missed it, they wanted to make sure that you knew that they'd heard you! LOL.)
I agree that the loss makes Mrs. McCarthy seem like more of a harridan and a less-relatable character.
I tried watching that sister series--the investigative nun? Oh, right, Sister Boniface? I don't know what it was but I really had trouble warming up to that and I think I gave up in...episode 3 or 4?
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
There's one episode post-season 5 that I think is my favorites of all seasons. But I'd be lying if I said episodes like it weren't few and far between in those later seasons.
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Yes. It's just...blander. A blander, less fun version of FB. I'm not sure what happened, but it's very similar to what occurred when the original producer (Brian True-May) of Midsomer Murders' fame left
that show--it just fell off noticeably. The change in main actors wasn't the biggie, really. (And somebody needs to get their heads out of their tuchuses about the DS. WHY do they keep filling that job with people whom we
wouldn't watch normally?)
Hitch