Unnatural Causes
- Episode aired Feb 8, 2022
- 45m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
346
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The discovery of a housemaid's corpse at a local festival puts a damper on Great Slaughter's jovial gathering.The discovery of a housemaid's corpse at a local festival puts a damper on Great Slaughter's jovial gathering.The discovery of a housemaid's corpse at a local festival puts a damper on Great Slaughter's jovial gathering.
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen Sister Boniface first meets Felix Livingtone at the train station, she greets him with "Detective Sergeant Livingstone, I presume?", playing upon his last name by echoing Henry Morton Stanley's famous greeting to David Livingstone upon locating him in Africa in 1871, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- GoofsSister Boniface's microscope is always missing its eyepiece. She is looking down an empty tube.
- Quotes
Felix Livingstone: Nuns making alcohol?
Sister Reginald: Our Lord asks for poverty, chastity, and obedience. He didn't say anything about sobriety.
Sam Gillespie: Amen to that!
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Too Bad
I thought this Sister would make a good character to join the cast of Father Brown as soon as I saw the episode where she appeared, 'The Bride of Christ'. She was really good and stole the episode. So it was good news that they decided to give her a show of her own. It's really too bad they botched it.
Part of the intrigue of Father Brown is that he has a quality foil to work against him (Chief Inspector). Apparently the writers/producers of this show decided that they couldn't do the same with a female lead character, for whatever reason, so Sister B is given free reign and never opposed or questioned. It takes the heft out of the plot immediately. And then the BBC's own affirmative action quotas apparently caused them to cast an actor who has no experience or talent to be the 3rd lead character, with no personality or interesting quality of his own. He's so bad you can actually watch him "acting", which amounts to him reciting his lines, no more. Compare that to the quality lineup that they give Father Brown--true pros like Sorcha Cusack, Nancy Carroll, and Alex Price (he's brilliant, in my opinion), and of course all 3 Inspectors. But now it's clear that the BBC has decided it's more important to be progressive than good so now this is just a disposable throwaway piece of nothing. Truly a shame that the BBC, in its quest to be inclusive, ruined the chance for a strong female lead character to be great. That's called irony.
Part of the intrigue of Father Brown is that he has a quality foil to work against him (Chief Inspector). Apparently the writers/producers of this show decided that they couldn't do the same with a female lead character, for whatever reason, so Sister B is given free reign and never opposed or questioned. It takes the heft out of the plot immediately. And then the BBC's own affirmative action quotas apparently caused them to cast an actor who has no experience or talent to be the 3rd lead character, with no personality or interesting quality of his own. He's so bad you can actually watch him "acting", which amounts to him reciting his lines, no more. Compare that to the quality lineup that they give Father Brown--true pros like Sorcha Cusack, Nancy Carroll, and Alex Price (he's brilliant, in my opinion), and of course all 3 Inspectors. But now it's clear that the BBC has decided it's more important to be progressive than good so now this is just a disposable throwaway piece of nothing. Truly a shame that the BBC, in its quest to be inclusive, ruined the chance for a strong female lead character to be great. That's called irony.
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- emmetlang-42622
- Jun 25, 2022
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- Stanway House - Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, UK(Location: Father Brown 5: 2 The Labyrinth of the Minotaur)
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- Runtime45 minutes
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