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Television

Quirky characters and well-written scripts dominate Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries available on Netflix streaming. My wife and I absolutely adore it.

Essie Davis as Phrne Fisher (Click to Google)

Essie Davis romps through the title role as a bon vivant who returns from England to Melbourne, Australia and becomes a sleuth. Everyone loves Ms Davis. The makeup artists. The costume designers. The dialog writers. The lighting director. The camera operators. Everyone loves Ms Fisher. Her household staff including her maid who fears the telephone (the earth, she is told by a friend, will explode if people keep transmitting electricity through wires), her butler (a WWI veteran intelligence officer and commando), and a pair of roustabouts who do the heavy lifting, especially when thugs are involved in the plot. The chief police inspector is constantly annoyed by Ms Fisher's intrusions into his investigations, but we suspect that he secretly loves her too. There's no doubt that his hapless constable loves her maid.

Then there's the music. Ragtime ditties from the Roaring Twenties that set the pace for the action and barely keep pace with Ms Fisher's exploits.

You'll laugh out loud at scenes. In one of my favorites Ms Fisher (Okay, her first name is “Phyrne” and I'll use that from now on)... Phyrne escapes the crime scene in her brand new roadster with two key witnesses in the back seat while the chief inspector looks on helplessly from a distance. Phyrne taunts him across an open field, “How do you like my new car? They say it'll do eighty-five, but I bet we can do better than that!”

If you aren't smiling at the end of each episode, you better have a doctor check you for life signs.

My wife and I watched six in just two days.