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Xx Peach xX (143363031) wrote:

Katherine (121079165) wrote:Check out some of the shows too? Even if your family does not want to watch, the mysteries are engrossing enough you get sucked right in! Try Midsommer Murders on them though. (Though I still love me A Morbid Taste For Bones with Cadfael! The rituals the monks do to scare away evil spirits while they are exhuming the saint are fascinating!)

Wait there’s 22 seasons…. 22!!

Edit: okay it’s 6 episodes per season but 1 hour and 40 minutes each episode

It hurts that that show genuinely looks like it’s right up my ally (I liked it more than the other one as a style of crime) but 22 seasons? Around 2 hours each episode? Please tell me it’s separate cases each season

If you don't watch any other Cadfael episodes watch A Morbid Taste For Bones? (Just be aware they start out with the monks doing bloodletting into bowls as part of their prayer rituals.) It's a timeless mystery with love tied into it. And the retrieval of a Saint's bones from Wales, where Cadfael is from. Cadfael thinks the Saint should stay where she is, where she lived and where she died. You won't be unhappy with the resolution of the story.

Xx Peach xX (143363031) wrote:

Katherine (121079165) wrote:Midsommer Murders Season 7 episode 7 (Ghosts of Christmas Past) is a good one! Finding the one with mother and son morticians. Will edit this post when I find it!

The Killings At Badgers Drift season 1 episode one, Iris and Dennis Rainbird!

Season 9 episode 2 Dead Letters has Iris' sister and nephew! (Played by the same actors, but it works!)

Ohh so each episode is a different case, if I choose any random episode from any season no story-line is lost, right? I love that if that’s the case!

Thank you for the names!!

Mostly, but there is a continuing story arch. This is Barnaby's life and the place he lives and works in. If you watched Dead Letters before The Killings At Badgers Drift you might be confused at Barnaby's reaction to Ursula and Alistair Gooding! But you'll have a similar reaction as he does if you see them in order! They are still good each by themselves but you get more enjoyment if you have the building story as a whole. Some are more standalone than others.

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Xx Peach xX (143363031) wrote:I avoid any crime story tied to love, it ruins everything for me. The cat detective fancying another cat is the only exception!! lol.

Since Midsomer Murders is diff cases each episode/season I’m interested in watching it, after all, murder cases are my favorite and I love the aesthetic of the show

I'll spoil A Morbid Taste For Bones some then. As told on the synopsis, the monk in charge pisses off the local landowner by trying to bribe him so that they (English monks) can take the Saint's bones with them. The landowner has a daughter that he wants to marry a certain fellow! But she does not love him as a husband, she loves him as a brother. She openly defies her father and refuses to marry him! The fellow pines for her though! She loves an Englishman!

The landowner is murdered and is found with the Englishman's arrow in him! Cadfael finds a stab wound in his back though! So someone shoved the arrow in through the front after he was dead! The monks are under suspicion of having killed the landowner! It is decided the landowner will be buried where the saint is since they are already digging the hole.

Cadfael discovers that most of the poppy juice he gave to one of the brothers to quell his seizures is gone! (Drug addict!) Columbanus is the one who had the vision of the Saint telling *him* to rescue her! (He *seems* stupid and easily led. He's actually an opium addict, with ambition to be a Bishop or even Pope!) Another brother (Jerome, assistant to the Prior who is second in command of their monastary) has convinced him that it was Winifred who he saw. Jerome also has ambition, and is manipulating Columbanus! Columbanus is letting him think he is being manipulated. Jerome thinks having a Saint's bones will bring prestige to their monastary!

In the end, Cadfael figures out (with help from the landowner's daughter) it was Columbanus who murdered the landowner then the fellow pining for the landowner's daughter found the corpse and pushed in his best friend's arrow to frame him so he could marry the lady, thinking she could love him if the other guy weren't around! Columbanus is killed in a struggle and his body is stashed in the reliquary meant for the Saint's bones, while the saint is reburied underneath the landowner, back in her grave! White petals are strewn around the chapel around Columbanus's robe to make it look like he was transported to Heaven. The happy couple gets away safe and are headed to England if I remember right. (He's actually a nobleman I think.) It ends with the monks commenting that the reliquary seems heavier than it should be.

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A true page turner for real

Cadfael was a soldier who had a Muslim wife (unofficial, but they lived together as a married couple) before he became a monk, he later meets his son that he never knew about! His son is Christian "like his father". He works as the monastary healer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadfael

Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters".[1] The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in Shrewsbury, western England, in the first half of the 12th century. The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during "The Anarchy", the destructive contest for the crown of England between King Stephen and Empress Maud.[2]

As a character, Cadfael "combines the curious mind of a scientist/pharmacist with a knight-errant".[3] He entered monastic life in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor; this worldly experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic life. He is a skilled observer of human nature, inquisitive by nature, energetic, a talented herbalist (work he learned in the Holy Lands), and has an innate, although modern, sense of justice and fair-play. Abbots call upon him as a medical examiner, detective, doctor, and diplomat. His worldly knowledge, although useful, gets him in trouble with the more doctrinaire characters of the series, and the seeming contradiction between the secular and the spiritual worlds forms a central and continuing theme of the stories.

Here's the episode of A Morbid Taste For Bones on youtube! Linking for the opening credits which are very well done I think! Sets the whole mood IMO! https://youtu.be/-jtUyaasvtQ

Here is where they are exhuming the Saint's bones!
https://youtu.be/-jtUyaasvtQ?t=2758

Here's the scene where the landowner's daughter listens in while Cadfael pretends to hear Saint Winifred to get a confession out of the murderous monk! (It's worth watching through to the end from here.) https://youtu.be/-jtUyaasvtQ?t=3645

If you didn't watch through to the end, here's the scene where Brother Columbanus's empty robe is discovered strewn with white petals! He'd been holding vigil in the village chapel with the bones of Saint Winifred overnight.
https://youtu.be/-jtUyaasvtQ?t=4277

Xx Peach xX (143363031) wrote:Okay I might have lied and said I don’t watch tv shows (Sherlock Holmes I’ve watched Sherlock the one with Benedict- I loved it tbh but now you’re making me want to watch Jeremy’s!)

But I hate watching TV shows alone, hence why I avoid usually- I always watch them with my family on a TV. But maybe if I convince them

Also you are an angel! Thank you for all the suggestions and making it easier for me to look them up

Remember, in the books Holmes uses cocaine! A 7% solution of cocaine! (Legal at the time.) He also sometimes uses opium when trailing a criminal who inhabits opium dens.

Here's David Suchet as Poirot! (He's really good!)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0RMLEWGA49PZAUN3XWBJQWM0B8/ref=atv_sf_stream_3p_sd_ep?autoplay=1&t=361

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple! I like her Marple best!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B074MFHJ87/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes! (These all used to play on PBS Mystery! Then A&E carried them.) https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B074PBHNTV/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1

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