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Midsomer Murders has been ongoing for soon 30 years, but there's still people left to murder.
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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I only catch an episode once on a while when it happens to be running on TV, but I've actually seen episodes in which the characters point at how absurd it is that so many murders happen all the time there.
Isn't it usually a different village each episode? I think Barnaby is responsible for the entire county
Still an unusually high number of villages for one county.
Midsomer county is bigger on the inside
Doctor Who crossover episode where they confront the evil alien force thriving on murders
Sounds Like a great Red Nose Day special
It started in 1997 and has had almost 150 episodes since then. An average then of like 5-6 murders a year. The UK homicide rate is about 10/million, so for a county of half a million it wouldn't be unreasonable. That kind of population is about right for a rural county.
That said, rate of murders in which the killer perfectly timed a firework, carried across the lake by their trained dog, to go off at the moment they were visibly on stage with an alibi, is a bit lower.
Plot twist: the detective is the murderer
Job security eh.
Now I understand why nobody pleads guilty.
Actually nah, in these shows they always come clean Scooby Doo style when someone has even an inkling of suspicion against them, as if they have definitive proof sitting in court.
YES, I DID IT BECAUSE... I WAS SCARED, OKAY?
Oh boy, would you love (Video game I canβt spoil).
Jessica Fletcher was the worlds most prolific murderer in TV series
Murder, She Wrought
Allow me to tell you of the "Unwitting Murder God" theory: Namely that murder, despite being a concept, not aware, alive or sentient, nonetheless wants to be near certain individuals who are otherwise innocent. It creeps from, or along with the god into someone nearby, sending that person - or occasionally animal - just mad enough to do the deed.
It may also want to be known. Written about, you might say.
Locking the god up in a regular prison wouldn't do any good. Murders would begin to happen around wherever they were incarcerated, and it wouldn't be limited to the prison walls.
Putting them on a remote island might work, but the radius of effect would undoubtedly grow and grow. Murder must feed. Also, you're going to need people to get the god to that island. Only one person - now a murderer - will be coming back from that trip.
Trying to kill the god also wouldn't work. They're a god. Like all unwitting gods, something would inevitably cause the death to happen to someone else. Out of universe, we call this "plot armour".
The only real way to win here is to convince the god of their godhood and hope they have the good conscience to do something about it themselves. And then hope that when they die - which may be a long time off if they choose to try the island alone - that there isn't a Pandora's box kind of thing going on.
At best, the godhood might just transfer to someone else.
Doctor Who explores this, especially recently.
Sounds like Rob McKenna from the Hitchhikers Guide series.
The last time I brought this up, I did mention Rob McKenna. I probably should have this time as well, because there was one heck of an unforecast downpour here not long after I submitted it.
There's a DND storyline in there somewhere
I feel like that's a hidden subplot to that weird American Gods tv show
She always managed to pin it on someone else as well.
on PBS
Damn, even the network got murdered
"How did you manage to figure out who the culprit was?"
"The method of elimination. Literally."
βOnly Murders in the Buildingβ is already testing the limits of the suspension of disbelief.
I suspect that was part of the idea. Itβs a murder show taking place in NYC, but still limits the murders to a single building. Itβs the extreme version of this quirk of the genre.
Major difference is itβs one(ish) murder per season, rather than one per episode.
makes me think of that detective conan spinoff anime that acknowledges the bullshit amount of crime mostly in one town and people are horrified at the idea of getting off the train at that station
That's now how it happens in a small town. Two long-time friends who have the habit of putting chairs in front of their house and pass the night chatting and observing the vicinity would have seen the guy who everyone already suspects to be a criminal walking in a strange way and would call the local gossiper, who tells them who the probable victim is, because there was a heavy discussion the last day between them, and then they alert the local police chief, who is their relative.
Miss Fisher got tired solving all these murders at home, so she goes on a beach vacation. Guess what happens? (It's murder.)
5th Panel: laying on a physiatrist's couch saying "maybe i should have been a firefighter instead"
Small Town Arson?
Guy Flame, Fire Inspector.
6 pm AMC. 9pm Bravo
Properties in Pontypandy must be absolutely uninsurable by now.
*thins
Its Longmire!
I think during the musical episode of Psych they refer to their town as the murder capital of the country.
Is it just me that literally can't read the image at all? When I click HD it gets worse
Looks fine on voyager over here
I'm on boost, and the image in the app is utterly fucked but not in a way I can describe (it isn't low resolution). Site works fine though so I saw the comic.
One reason why I will always find something more productive to do when my wife wants to watch her detective stories. These shows are so incredibly boring. So, so, so boring.
Maybe your wife can only relax when youβre not around?
Both yes and no. π Sometimes we both need "me time" to recharge, and sometimes we need each other. So partially correct, I guess! π
They even brought Bergerac back and there canβt have been more than several thousand people on Jersey to start with.
I knew it was him from the beginning
Is it Monkey 2025 reference?