Agatha Raisin (TV Series) The Walkers of Dembley (2016) User Reviews

Still not there yet

[pensman · 5/10 · 11 August 2016]

Agatha does not ramble. She is willing to run charity events for a local lord but Jason Merrells is too "familiar" to be Sir Charles Fraith. And it doesn't take a genius to figure Jessica Tarnick (Debbie Chazen) will be murdered as she makes her brief appearance as an obnoxious walker. Roy Silver (Mathew Horne) is pressed into service to find background information. But Agatha would never think of having her house cleaner work as her aide-de-camp.

She enjoys the opportunity to pass herself off as being married to her neighbor James Lacey who is not as thrilled but has to go along as Sir Charles Fraith reminds him that he owns James' cottage. But this Agatha is a bit too pushy in too many ways. Agatha Raisin may be successful in advertising but her character is supposed to suffer from an inferiority complex; not a superiority complex. I am just going to have to convince myself to judge the stories as separate entities that just share the title of the books.

This story finally takes off as someone tries to run Aggie over and she is saved James. Could it be Sir James Fraith's man Gustav. No, he has an alibi. Maybe Jeff Benson who was in love with Jessica? Maybe we just need to return back to the cottage and revisit the "murder kitchen table." But first someone has to save Sir Charles Fraith.

Walkers of Dembley

[Prismark10 · 3/10 · 12 June 2016]

After a promising one off film Agatha Raisin returns to Sky as fully fledged series.

The public relations professional who has settled for a quiet country life finds out that she has to pose as a married couple with James to get in with some local ramblers to find out if one of them could be a murderer as one of the rambler has been found dead and she was also in a dispute with a local landowner who would not allow access to his land and who has a butler always handy with a shotgun.

Agatha is rather keen to pass herself as married with James although he does not seem to be as keen.

We have had a 'will they won't they' relationships in comedy crime drama serials such as Jonathan Creek and Agatha Raisin has her work cut out because of the success of the BBC's Death in Paradise that does comedy and crime very deftly.

Unfortunately this first episode was poor. Flatly directed, uninteresting story and no chemistry between Ashley Jensen and Jamie Glover who plays James.