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Ugh.

This script sure shows the show's writers, in its last season...were getting Tired. Too many Matlock cliches trotted out!

Matlock teams up with an abrasive young woman(Lea DeLaria) to solve the murder of a popular radio DeeJay. However, her abrasiveness repels instead of attracts. Also, Her Italian American family is too TV typical.

One of the suspects ( Melanie Smith) is blatantly sexual..for instance. In her not subtle discussions about sex..and.making Ben very uncomfortable when she asks him to rub suntan lotion on her back..and legs. And she us NOT playing a prostitute.

Ben's uncomfortableness is usually charming, but not here. Again, it's as if he walked onto some other urban based TV show or soap opera!!

There are references to Male strippers, two men in a fluid gender dance club flirting with him. Unrealistic on this particular show.

The clumsy jokes about Ben's suit, the old " spill something on Ben's suit, the unfunny uninteresting abrasive detective, and the creepy woman suspect did not draw me in...then or now.

Father Brown seems unbelievably foggy on his church's teachings on monogamous marriage. Not a believable stance for an early 1950s priest... indeed for most Christian clergy in early 1950s.

Yes a bigamist appears...and murder etc. happens. Moderately entertaining plot.

However, I notice a pattern in this series.. Every now and then in this usually good...sometimes great..series. It's as if...the writers cant bear to fully present the actual theology of GK Chesterton's priest.

Remember again..a fellow great mystery writer, the great Dorothy L Sayers spoke of the underestimated power of actual Christian theology. "The Dogma IS the Drama"

Plot is ok...but not sparkling with the twists seen in their best episodes.