Search - Midsomer Murders: Set 11 on DVD

These tapes helped me a lot through some very, very bad time

C. Bishop | alaska | 11/24/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"My father passed in 2006 and to divert my mother and myself, I purchased all of the sets of this series. We had seen it on television when it was on PBS but had not seen them all. It kept us going through a terrible time and when my mother unexpectedly passed ten months later, I pulled them again. I have them all. They not only entertain but they ensure with their beauty, solid plots and performances and general all around enjoyment level that the world is still going to go on. They have saved me and I recommend them to anyone who loves mystery, beauty and the feeling that tomorrow will be better because the Midsommer lands exist."

Righting the ship

J. Janssen | San Diego, CA USA | 12/31/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Big changes in Set eleven... relatively speaking of course. Barnaby ditches the Rover in favor of a new baby Jag and we happily bid goodbye to DS Scott. This series hit a rough patch commencing with Set Seven and not just because the affable DS Troy left the show. His replacement, Scott, was not a bad sort, but didn't seem to mesh with the carefully crafted ambience of the cast and tended to project an overall negativity to the scripts. Perhaps to compensate the writers tried to inject an ill advised sense of modernity with fewer cast members per episode and more yuppy centered story lines. Lot's of 3 series BMW's zipping around driven by generally unlikable characters... sort of an English Murder She Wrote.

All improved with this set as DC Ben Jones joined up in "The House in the Woods". Scott is briefly mentioned in the opening scenes, but no farewell episode to commemorate his leaving like we had with Troy in Series Seven (which oddly is one of my favorites, The Green Man). Ambience returned as does appearances by Laura Howard as Barnaby's daughter, Cully. Essentially this set does much to restore the series to it's former glory though I still feel the first six collections are the best. Not one to start with, but highly recommended for fans of this venerable series."