Sadly Over-hyped

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The first problem is I do not understand their Coroner system and they don't explain it. I like learning from British shows. The second one is that this is only 2 seasons! I wanted a couple more. The scenery is lovely and more current than some British shows. The characters are humorous and subtle at the same time. I like the fact that the violence is a lot less than in other shows and it is more intellectual, as if you were solving the murder/death yourself. I'd live in that village any day.

Some evenings you just want to spend time with a few nice people and be mildly engaged with their goings-on, and The Coroner fills that bill. I read here that the series has been canceled, and in one sense I am relieved, because had it gone on, the writers would probably have been compelled to intensify the relationship between Davey and Jane, and the ensuing suffering, Davey's divorce, etc., would have killed the show for me anyway.

According to the BBC, the series isn't based on (or inspired by) the book The Coronor by M.R.Hall. Now that we've got that out of the way...I grew to like the Coroner as it progressed to series 2, and then the rug got pulled out by someone in TV authority so adios to series 3:( Not happy at all.Admittedly, the tone of The Coroner was a bit hard to pinpoint. Midsomer Murders? Doc Martin? with a dash of Murder, She Wrote and even Diagnosis Murder? Just add some tonic and you have a semi- quirky coroner living in a coastal town with its own dialect who look askance at urban Londoners if you know what I mean. Anyway, The Coroner should have been renewed for season 3 and maybe it can be rebooted.

An interesting reversal of the Midsommer Murders lastingly successful formula of pretty locations, impeccably kept gardens, respectable folk with interesting and surprisingly murderous passions. Places one might like to visit for afternoon tea or a fete, safe in the knowledge that the locals only murder each other and no shrubbery was even rustled let alone harmed in the process. With luck meeting and buying a pint for the charming Jim Barnaby in the short gaps between murders. This in contrast is East Enders on Sea - not the (neighbouring) Thames estuary but beauty and tourist hot spot Totnes, Devon. The same East-Enders duv-duv-duv climaxes. Slags and geezers being caught bang to rights for ugly commonplace crimes in pretty as a picture locations, pursued by a specially charmless female coroner with a spectacularly unattractive voice (presumably intended to convey the character's independence, toughness and competence) The acting, scripts and cast are mediocre. As I write a bearded Basil Exposition character is laboriously spelling out the plot. It concludes with the unattractive duo enjoying a drink, spoiling the view of the absolutely gorgeous scenery behind them.Is there a Totnes bypass? I think they'll soon need one. Not to avoid the traffic but to avoid the place.