The reviewer jaywalkeruk-1 ("Great, but flawed") makes a solid criticism that the DS from Paris should not be of a lower rank than DI Mooney. That would be the most damning complaint if only she were not also FROM PARIS? I'm with reviewer eddie-perkins who wrote "I'm confused". Why is an internal affairs investigator from Paris looking into Florence's shooting and evaluating Jack's performance? BTW if Madeleine is writing a report to the French government, why is she shown to be writing it in ENGLISH?
Even if there were an explanation for any of this (I suppose that Florence was seconded from French Guadeloupe in the first place), why does a representative of France have any say about the status of a British police officer employed by a British colony? The show has made clear that the fictional island of Sainte Marie was a French possession a long time ago but is now governed solely by the UK.
The show's writers apparently need two things and won't compromise on either: There must be tension regarding Detective Inspector Mooney's fate, AND it must be at the hands of yet another sexy French Detective Sergeant. Why do the detective sergeants on this show always have to be sexy and French? (This is obviously like asking why they usually also have to wear appealingly tight hot pants--though DS Madeleine does not do so, at least not in this installment.)
The murder plot is somewhat clever. I should have seen it coming but did not. The murderer is always too clever by half, and the DI always figures out that the apparent time of the murder or sequence of events has been shifted to create the illusion of impossibility. Any other inspector--except for the ones routinely sent to Sainte Marie--would miss these shifts, and the murderer would get away with it.
Even if there were an explanation for any of this (I suppose that Florence was seconded from French Guadeloupe in the first place), why does a representative of France have any say about the status of a British police officer employed by a British colony? The show has made clear that the fictional island of Sainte Marie was a French possession a long time ago but is now governed solely by the UK.
The show's writers apparently need two things and won't compromise on either: There must be tension regarding Detective Inspector Mooney's fate, AND it must be at the hands of yet another sexy French Detective Sergeant. Why do the detective sergeants on this show always have to be sexy and French? (This is obviously like asking why they usually also have to wear appealingly tight hot pants--though DS Madeleine does not do so, at least not in this installment.)
The murder plot is somewhat clever. I should have seen it coming but did not. The murderer is always too clever by half, and the DI always figures out that the apparent time of the murder or sequence of events has been shifted to create the illusion of impossibility. Any other inspector--except for the ones routinely sent to Sainte Marie--would miss these shifts, and the murderer would get away with it.