Episode #1.1
- Episode aired Oct 15, 2021
- 47m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
207
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Antiques dealer Jean White arrives in France to uncover the mystery of her husband's death.Antiques dealer Jean White arrives in France to uncover the mystery of her husband's death.Antiques dealer Jean White arrives in France to uncover the mystery of her husband's death.
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Narayan David Hecter
- Xavier
- (as Narayan Hecter)
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Did you know
- GoofsNear the start, a cab-over vehicle smashed into a tree crushing the front end and killing the driver. Soon after, a tow-truck is shown pulling the vehicle away from the tree. The front end is not damaged at all.
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Cheery, undemanding, cozy mysteries ...
... would be suitable comments if these were scripts presented at a creative writing course, but for a program on prime time TV then "amateurish bordering on juvenile" would be nearer the mark.
Mrs White (nobody actually calls her Mme Blanc) arrives in a sleepy French village to sort out the affairs of her recently deceased antiques-dealer husband. To the amazement of the local police, she fairly quickly determines that her husband was poisoned by a serial-killing art thief on the hunt for a valuable ring that her husband had found in a local flea market.
Impressed by her sleuthing skills and encyclopaedic knowledge of antiques, the local police captain puts her on the payroll to help solve the many art-related crimes in the area (and, of course, find the serial killer).
Mrs White doesn't speak French but that's ok because everybody in the village is either an ex-pat or speaks English with an "Allo, allo" accent (with the notable exception of the female police constable whose dialogue has to be subtitled to remind us that we are indeed in France and not Bexhill-on-sea).
Notable among the ex-pats are Robin Asquith (playing his usual role as a dimwit in French farces) and Susan Holderness playing "Marlene" to Asquith's "Boycie".
Each episode follows a similar format: 1. A cattle-prod reminder that the killer is still out there 2. A ludicrous mystery involving a missing or misidentified masterpiece 3. "Character development" of one of the locals 4. The burgeoning romance between the local ex-pat taxi driver and Mrs White (who seems to have gone through the 5 stages of grief before titles have finished rolling)
In order to cram all this into the 40-minute run time, the mystery has to be solved pretty sharpish and so the clues are dropped like bricks with luggage labels attached (or 1 clue, several bricks).
I couldn't decide between a 3 (awful) and a 7 (but a cheery alternative to the relentlessly downbeat dramas that fill the other channels) so I settled on a 5.
Mrs White (nobody actually calls her Mme Blanc) arrives in a sleepy French village to sort out the affairs of her recently deceased antiques-dealer husband. To the amazement of the local police, she fairly quickly determines that her husband was poisoned by a serial-killing art thief on the hunt for a valuable ring that her husband had found in a local flea market.
Impressed by her sleuthing skills and encyclopaedic knowledge of antiques, the local police captain puts her on the payroll to help solve the many art-related crimes in the area (and, of course, find the serial killer).
Mrs White doesn't speak French but that's ok because everybody in the village is either an ex-pat or speaks English with an "Allo, allo" accent (with the notable exception of the female police constable whose dialogue has to be subtitled to remind us that we are indeed in France and not Bexhill-on-sea).
Notable among the ex-pats are Robin Asquith (playing his usual role as a dimwit in French farces) and Susan Holderness playing "Marlene" to Asquith's "Boycie".
Each episode follows a similar format: 1. A cattle-prod reminder that the killer is still out there 2. A ludicrous mystery involving a missing or misidentified masterpiece 3. "Character development" of one of the locals 4. The burgeoning romance between the local ex-pat taxi driver and Mrs White (who seems to have gone through the 5 stages of grief before titles have finished rolling)
In order to cram all this into the 40-minute run time, the mystery has to be solved pretty sharpish and so the clues are dropped like bricks with luggage labels attached (or 1 clue, several bricks).
I couldn't decide between a 3 (awful) and a 7 (but a cheery alternative to the relentlessly downbeat dramas that fill the other channels) so I settled on a 5.
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- pepegomez65
- Nov 7, 2021
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- Runtime47 minutes
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