BILLYBOY-10

I love light hearted murder series with snappy repartee dialogue and quirky characters. Vera this is not! Nancy Carroll from Father Brown is perfectly matched with Roger Allam and the outdoor locations are beautiful so its a wonderful series and I hope it gets picked up for more. Probably not tho its much to pedestrian for the gourmet viewer. Pity. Anyway I have to kill time to list at least 150 characters which is total nonsense as when I read a review it needs to be short and concise not filled with endless yack yack in useless detail.

Bottom line is I want to see Season II as the series ended on a double whammy. The stories are OK, the writing sometimes crisp, sometimes not, but all in all an enjoyable diversion from reality of what it's like to be gay, single and 50 or over..or as I call it: The Gobi Desert. Fantasy land here but fun and worth a watch. Lotsa puns and story lines to keep it fresh and ongoing and basically its mainstream gay soft-porn.

I like this series and this particular episode is well written, with lots of twists along the way keeping you on your toes all along to the very clever conclusion. My only criticism however is the very annoying background music starting with the way too loud beginning song and then all along loud and overwhelming music interludes and crashing noise throughout. It is not only unnecessary it is distracting from the goings on and should have been eliminated altogether. Nice production, direction and super acting but again, get rid of the annoying music track.