Although this popular Australian mystery series had an amateurish feel to it (or perhaps it was just done that way to deliberately mimic a much earlier movie-era style), it nevertheless featured the oddly charming if improbable story of an heiress and World War I survivor who returns from Europe to Melbourne in the 1920s, and decides to help the local constabulary solve murders and other crimes.
The wealthy Miss Phryne Fisher (played by Essie Davis) is beautiful, uninhibited and sexually liberated, a stylish dresser, a pilot, a horseback rider, a race car driver, an actress, a femme fatale, a mentor to young girls, an inspired crime-solver, and a heroine who's always ready with her signature gold-plated snub-nose revolver whenever things get dangerous. Is there anything she can't or won’t do, for the sheer thrill of it, while solving the mystery and catching the criminal?
It was corny and old-fashioned, but fun. I also saw the movie, Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears, released in 2020, which was essentially more of the same. Recommended.
The Memory Cache is the personal blog site of Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer and musician. It features short reviews of books, movies and TV shows, and posts on other topics of current interest.
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