Mr whicher reviews

That holds my interest - where? There are not the distracting subplots and twists so often found when a mystery unravels. Whicher has one aim - to solve a crime - and I'm taken along for the ride. That's an interesting ride, too! Very enjoyable viewing. The characters were cliched And melodramatic. The writing was predictable and tired. Nothing about this was good. Capturing the costumes and nastiness of the era does not make compelling drama.

I'm surprised by the generally negative reviews for this production. Some reviewers seem to want the writers to re-write history to replicate an Agatha Christie story. The fact is, this story was based on reality, not on Christie's tropes and formulas. The fact is, sometimes crimes work out as this one did, with an unsatisfying ending. I found this well acted and well written. Not great, but quite good, and well worth the watching.

Maybe if Captain Hastings' grandfather had showed up for comic relief, more people would have liked it. Personally, I found the straight drama well done and satisfying. I came on here to see if others thought this as brilliant as I, and was very disappointed at the negative comments. If I am to stand alone,so be it. From what I've read, this show is based on fact; it is therefore not CSI, or Criminal Minds, where the killer is found mostly through forensics and DNA testing , and the crime solved and neatly wrapped up with a bow.

I somehow feel that that is what many were expecting. That is why reality TV is so successful. People don't want to watch a show where you have to think, or to watch the crime solver think as well.

They want everything solved, or only happy endings. Well you won't get that here. But the show is brilliantly done and Mr Whicher is portrayed brilliantly by the actor.

The actress who portrayed Constance Kent was also exemplary in her role. I found the show interesting, and did not stop once for the whole hour and a half that I watched it online. It has peaked my interest so much that I am not only going to watch the other episode with Mr Whicher, but I am also going to see if I can find the info on Wikipedia about the Kents, and the murder. Not every show has a happy ending, but when it's based on real life and fact, then we must deal with that and accept it.

Life is not always a bed of roses. A very interesting show and I recommend it highly. This applies to all 4 of the Whicher movies. They are full of well realized characters acting in a way which is reasonably consistent with what I know of the period. The mysteries are clever and the solutions are, for the most part, very satisfying. If you like this sort of program you will like this one. If you don't, give this one a try. I do not write often, I have written maybe 30 reviews, mainly because of time.

I write this review in rebuke of writer "rightwingisevil United States " I find the comments a very poor reading and note that nearly 71 people also disagree. This is as the aforementioned writes, claims British crime thriller, it does not have cars screaming around corners, it does not have over the top cops with magnums more likely found in Texas or people from there.

It is subtle, like most British films and relies on peoples thought, not their eyes seeing loud thunderous noises and special effects. Yes, I think some characters roles where not played to their fullness however those that were, deserve applauded. No it is not an award winning film, however, without the extreme violence found in US stories similar, it is a decent good watch.

I remind people in the US that "Murder She Wrote" was exactly what the aforementioned person states are "Female English writers", the same of Murder She Wrote which at its time was a hit, I am sure in its present form it would not be, however it enjoyed a great run on US TV before the violence that the US is now synonymous with.

Do not expect Wuthering Heights, but be perplexed by the players in this mid-range mystery, so totally British. This story is not worthy of a movie. Very weak!

Imagine there is a crime committed and police start investigation. They just found some people with shady backgrounds and the police just arrest someone without any proof.

Mind you, everyone else is as likely as the arrested person. Thats all this story is about. Now one may call it a real story or unsatisfying ending or what ever, that is not enough reason.

There is just no point in making this story into a movie, leave alone watching. What a waste of time. This detail movie about the true and absolutely sensational murder mystery that occurred in England in the s gave birth to Sir Arthur Canon Dolye's "Sherlock Holmes". The life of Constance Kent was a was disgrace by murdering her half brother but was reborn after becoming a Christian and seeking forgiveness.

Queen Victoria forgave her to a life in prision. After which she join her brother in Austrailia and led a life of nursing. She died at the age of If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book.

The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia.

We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. Quotations in the margins amplify the lesson being taught.

While compelling in the way an auto accident might be, the book is simply nonsense. Rules often contradict each other.

To ask why this is so would be a far more useful project. Doyle offers another lucid, inspiring chronicle of female empowerment and the rewards of self-awareness and renewal.

More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom. In her third book, Doyle Love Warrior , , etc.

Some stories merely skim the surface of larger issues, but Doyle revisits them in later sections and digs deeper, using friends and familial references to personify their impact on her life, both past and present. Already have an account? Log in. Almost too many: I sometimes got a bit lost in the Victorian gloom.

Lost rather than swallowed up emotionally, which is what I've come to expect — and want — when Olivia Colman's involved. A little too long too, at two hours. As a Nobel prize-winning physicist of course, also as the key component of the investigating commission into the Challenger space shuttle disaster. Nothing plodding about him though, he was a maverick. And a showman, entertainer, biologist, bongo player, painter, naturalist, poet, lover, lock-picker, mischief maker … oh and bomb-maker, though to be fair he did regret that.

Anyway, there's nothing boring about him. And even after the excellent BBC Challenger investigation drama the other day all the real footage here reinforces how spot on William Hurt's performance was in that. Luckily Feynman, and his lectures, are all over the internet, where he continues to find new disciples 25 years after his death.

I love the fact that his father, as well as teaching young Richard to be interested in just about everything, also taught him how to disrespect, especially authority. Disrespect has come to be seen as a bad thing, by school kids and gang members and politicians who'd like to be school kids or gang members.

Mr Feynman Snr knew; look what came from it.