Inspector Wexford - A Guilty Thing Surprised 

Thank you 😊

Yes, but in fact Americans use and recycle a lot of their actors too. If you watch carefully you’ll see .Hollywood actors showing up again and again in various parts across many different productions over many years.

They are all RSC and the National. John Nettle's wife Joyce is a casting director for the National Theater, she worked on Midsomer with him and knows absolutely everyone. So they get one great classical thespian in every episode, from Bernard Hepton to Simon McBurney to Judy Parfitt.

I have seem Pascoe as a humble P.C. in Frost.

How lucky you are, so! 🍀😂🇮🇪

@@steerpike66 I often wondered how the British films were so adapt at casting believe actors in nearly every role! 😮It’s what sets them apart from American tv where it is such a stretch to believe these plots are happening to these people. I applaud Mrs. Nettles for having such exquisite taste in places actors. Thanks for explaining this

Yes.

I knew Karen Meagher back in the day..the 70s 😀

WAXFORD ?

Yes, it makes for a nice dimension to his character, that he’s a thinking, reflective man with a sensitive poetic side.

I think Reg is a bit of a poseur, at times...

You'd probably enjoy the Rumpole series, as well. The titular character is also probe to quoting Wordsworth, but he's a barrister (an "old bailey hack") well known for never pleading guilty, his ever-present cheroots, a love for Chateau Thames Embankment (cheap red wine), and taking mostly legal aid cases.

You mean "down pat", and I would agree that Rendell was very astute in picking out human foibles with her characterisations. I wish American schools would teach and reinforce actual English, not this street slang that seems to be ubiquitous in the 21st century. It makes communication between classes and cultures increasingly difficult. 😞

(I just meant that I find it difficult to converse with anyone these days without being misunderstood or not being able to understand, no disrespect intended)

@@msmltvcktl sometimes I use the modern patois, especially when it doesn’t upset the rules of grammar. The urban dictionary is often a referential friend. ;) My favorite character in pulp fiction (the movie) is honey bunny (Amanda Plummer). The description of her in the screenplay: it is impossible to define, just by observation, her wealth, status or class.

I can't understand it, regardless. I am aware of the urban "dictionary", but it holds no value to me, either as a person or as a writer. Most likely, that's due to the fact that I'm presumed to be half literate and fluent in ebonics because of an unfortunate genetic shortcoming. 😞

To be fair, "ebonics" is neutral in comparison to the more racially charged term "AAVE" for one very important reason: the word 'vernacular'. Rooted as it is in the Latin 'vernaculus', meaning "related to household slaves", one would be correct in considering the term "African American vernacular English" to be the long form of "black slave English". 😳 And that, my friend, is terribly racist terminology embraced by people ignorant of linguistic origins and meanings.

You've well expressed what I love about this series and other British series I've been bingeing on! 👏👍

I don't think Mike is widowed in this episode. The kids are very young; the wife is blond-haired. This is Gina, Mike's first wife. His second wife is Jenny; her hair is dark and long; kids are in college.

He might have thought it poisoned. I do hope you're better now.

There are some really good PBS murder mysteries on RU-vid (Vera, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, etc). It's awesome. I do pay for RU-vid premium so I don't have to deal with commercials, and there is tons of great stuff here.

Thanks Stephen

Thank YOU for your nice comment! Most posters don't give the show away, but unfortunately, I have come across some who do, without announcing first that a spoiler is imminent.

Piqued * the interest 😁

Yes a mysterious lot who like mystery haha

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Thank you Renata, stay safe too 😊🙂

I had an inkling when they mention the vacations, but not who the killer was

Thank you Jack they do don't they 🙂

Absolutely, I'm already completely hooked on it - authentic, real and beautifully melancholy.

Great, thankyou!

Thank you 🙂

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Same here, lol! 12.30 when I finished watching it.😊👵👍

This is so funny because as soon as I identify the murderer the suspect is dead! I love my British mysteries. Keep you on your mental toes!

Didn't mean to keep you awake Queen Bee and Melody. This was some time ago so hopefully you have both recovered from the late night by now 😁

Thank you 😊

Thank you 🙂

Me neither!!✌

Hi Mary Kay you can't be any happier than I am don't remember wexford in Midsomer tell me more I'm enthralled with these series also Wycliffe

@Mary Kay: can you tell me which episode of Midsomer Murders George Baker (actor playing Reg Wexford) appears in?

@@marquitaarmstrong399 Midsomer Murders. Season 9, Episode 1. The House in the Woods.

@@mfjdv2020 Midsomer Murders. Season 9, Episode 1. The House in the Woods.

@@SuperZytoon He played twins in that episode. One the best episodes of MSMs.

Thank you

If you want to watch them in order, just google Inspector Wexford Mysteries and go to Wikipedia. They have listed the episodes in chronological order.

Surely. I usually spend an hour doing the full one, glueing the false eyelashes properly, I straighten my hair down then hop I dive in 👁👃👁

Oh, that’s why I don’t look like that when I wake up.

I appreciate the humour :-) But it's stage make-up. Reg and Mike wear it too. Haven't you noticed their eyeshadow? Actors have to be made up, otherwise they look like they've been kept in a cupboard for 300 years.

@@mfjdv2020 like we all do, everyday:-)

@@monikaszymanowska5142 👍😆

I like that it is long. The characters can fully develop.

I'm really pleased 🙂

@@paulgoddard 😀

My Dad wore a hat like Wexford as well-always makes me think of of my Dad with love and a smile.

It's beautiful. Incomprehensible that the poetry of George Gordon Byron is so little known and read.

@@mfjdv2020 He died at the age of 36. Wiki bio says: The figure of the Byronic hero pervades much of his work, and Byron himself is considered to epitomize many of the characteristics of this literary figure. His philosophy was more durably influential in continental Europe than in England; Friedrich Nietzsche admired him, and the Byronic hero was echoed in Nietzsche's superman. The Byronic hero presents an idealized, but flawed character whose attributes include: great talent; great passion; a distaste for society and social institutions; a lack of respect for rank and privilege (although possessing both); being thwarted in love by social constraint or death; rebellion; exile; an unsavory secret past; arrogance; overconfidence or lack of foresight; and, ultimately, a self-destructive manner. These types of characters have since become ubiquitous in literature and politics. He desperately tried to hide his bisexuality. Do you, by chance, know "The Lady of Shalott By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. What I really mean is did you hear Anne Shirley recite it in the best of Anne of Green Gables? (LOL) I wish I could remember the name of my favorite Anne.

@@jjroseknows777 Megan Follows?

@@judylloyd7901 Yes, that's right! Thank you so much.

Isn't that the whole point? 🤪

Glorious music 🙂

I caught that. Good moment!

@@FirstLast-su3ke I was left with the impression that both of them fell out of character momentarily.

I kept my eye on the time so as not to miss it but thought I must have done or I’m not picking it up.. Then I saw it. It was a nice moment

I thought that his greeting the passing girl was an ad lib, sort of as a reaction to his line just before. Referring to the, "party of teenage nymphomaniacs".

Got it too! Beautifully done, a sort of personal exchange not included in the script :-)