Episode 3

Yet again, this series has produced an nice, entertaining hour. Without divulging anything as a spoiler, I imagine most of those watching it will guess "whodunnit" as I did, (and how it was done, but not the why) well before Nevil does.

This show has been boring for the last several episodes. The main characters can act, but the writing is not very good. Murder mysteries should be suspenseful or try to keep the audience guessing. It hasn't been believable since the last season or two.

The commissioner has been portrayed for a long time as one dimensional. He doesn't like the detective and that's all we see or hear when the two of them interact. It's supposed to be funny but it comes off all wrong.

I'm very tired of them trying to cast American characters with actors who can't pull off an American accent. If you want an American accent cast an American actor.

The best days of this series have long since gone since the new detective arrived. Two minutes in to this episode I was hoping all the appalling guest 'actors' would forget their parachutes.

Zach Ogilvy, an IT tycoon goes skydiving with some of his colleagues.

The others land safely but not Zach. His dead body is found on a tree but it was not due to the landing or a mishap in mid air. He was stabbed.

DI Parker sees footage taken of Zack jumping off the plane so just how and when did the murder take place?

Parker also finds that Zach was bit of an ogre. No one liked him, he was a bully, his company had a culture of making people work long hours.

It was an entertaining episode but I did think that one person was a suspect very much from the off. The crime scene remark very much had them nailed.

I would loved to have seen DI Parker go skydiving.

A skydiver is killed in bizarre circumstances, and DS Cassell has a big decision to make.

There has definitely been a switch up, the tone is altogether different, no silliness here at all, this was quite series, but excellent, for me this was the best episode of the series so far. The mystery itself was a cracker, but all of the strands were interesting.

The idea of Buddy Base was a good one, it seems an eternity since we last had a new social media platform, the main ones have dominated for so long.

Josephine Jobert has been hard to avoid in recent times, she's been everywhere, and for good reason, there seems an almost inevitability about her moving on. I thought the scenes between Florence and The Commissioner were wonderful, great that the show has a rich history to draw on. I like that there's a stoeh arc running through.

Nice to see William Gaminara, such a good actor. Ben Starr was excellent also.

I can't help but feel that the writer was having a bit of a pop at Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of the new platform was definitely a bit strange.

Some real depth here, this was a cracker, 9/10.