AppalachianMountainWriter

A good ongoing mystery (terrible title) but the mystery wasn't resolved. I was waiting for another episode to see who killed Maja. Harry (who seemed to be dating Veronica) was definitely a bad guy, but what did he do? He's obviously up to no good, but he disappeared in the end and we see Maja in the enclosure supposedly dead. What exactly happened? Who killed her? Was it her husband or Harry or the guy who killed the man who killed Anais' father and sister? Too many bad guys to keep track of. I was very confused. If this was supposed to be cliffhanger it was not a very good one. I keep checking to see if another episode will show up.

Over all, this was an interesting episode, regarding the Nazi hunter story line, I find it unbelievable that a petite woman such as Christina Worcester could reach up and get a ligature around the neck of a BIG man like Alec Frobisher. He would have elbowed her into next week.

Also, I'm not sure how this mistake got by even the actors: Alec Frobisher uses a fountain pen to scribble some data in his little book. When Mallory retrieves the book, Father Brown traces over the writing that has the deep indents made by a ball point pen. I'm curious why the director (or even the actors) didn't catch this major goof.

I had started to watch this episode when it first came out, and had stopped. Went back last night and watched it with a lot of fast forwarding. This has to be the worst Father Brown episode so far, and I've seen them all. Absolutely ridiculous all the way through. A Jesters Convention? Really? Every scene was ridiculously crazy. Sergeant Goodfellow is afraid of clowns, the nerdy son is over-the-top crazy. Even the man pursuing Mrs. McCarthy was unbelievable. And the ending was crazy and unbelievable. Some of the later episodes have been on the crazy side, too. I'm thinking the series is going to become a slapstick comedy.