Crime Drama Queens
Two old friends, Lily and Lex, chat about their love of TV crime dramas and murder mysteries. Each episode they watch and discuss a different show and what it means to them.
Episodes
47 episodes
Episode forty one - "Rosemary and Thyme" (season three, episode five, "Three Legs Good")
First off, let us apologise for the amount we talk about the weather and various weather apps at the beginning. It's almost like we didn't want to talk about Rosemary and Thyme. Almost. But we do get into it, and what towering achie...
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Episode forty - "Towards Zero"
It's another Agatha Christie! Drink every time Lily says "I know we're not talking about the book, but..." Actually, don't, that would be dangerous. Protect the NHS.We had some dramas while recording this episode as a plusnet...
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Episode thirty nine - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (season one, episode two: "The Dancing Men.")
Enter stage left: A tall, pale, man in a deerstalker. Spry, and somewhat unnerving, Jeremy Brett is to some people (Lily), but not others (Lex), the definitive Sherlock Holmes. It's not an absolute belter of a episode though as an intervention ...
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Episode thirty eight - "Wallander" (season one, episode one, "Sidetracked")
Kenneth Branagh shines in this anglicised version of the skandi noir classic, Wallander. However, it's not that hard to shine when everything around you is so incredibly bleak. Having said that, there are lots of bodies, and one of them is even...
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Episode thirty seven - "Father Brown" (season twelve, episode one, "The Battle of Kembleford")
Silly hats, squabbling academics, tudor costumes, death by antique sword...what can we say? Just the usual antics in the world of crime drama. We've seen all these things before but this time we are in the world of Father Brown. It's not the gr...
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Episode thirty six - "Patience" (season one, episode three, "The Missing Link")
York, present day: A woman is found dead inside a dinosaur exhibit. Not inside the exhibit, you understand. Not wodged in with the dinosaurs. Only a total fool would think that. And she drowned....<...
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Episode thirty five - "Dalziel and Pascoe" (season one, episode one, "A Clubbable Woman")
A woman has been clubbed in the head with a toffee hammer, but it's ok, as she was "clubbable," and probably deserved it. Oh, and the clowns in Brussels have got rid of toffee hammers so maybe she was shot instead. Confused?Welcome to t...
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UPDATE: A change for our next episode.
Hello all, here we are again. Quick update to let you know we're binning off Father Brown as the episode we were going to talk about is no longer avilable on "U" and we can't find it anywhere else. After all that fuss about finding the app and ...
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Lex is on holidaaaaay!
There's no full length episode this week because Christmas and New Year threw us off our stride. Come on now, take a deep breath and wipe your tears - we'll get one to you soon. In this little minisode Lily tries to do a short review of...
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Episode thirty four - "Midsomer Murders" (season sixteen, episode one, "A Christmas Haunting")
It's CHRIIIISTMAS! And the village of Codswallop Shallows (or similar) is celebrating by hosting lots of ghost hunts, just as Jesus would have wanted. There are only two bodies in this one, so it's not an all time classic, but we d...
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Episode thirty three - "Return to Paradise," (season one, episode one, "R.I.P. Tide")
You know the drill, a Met Police officer has left London and is solving crimes in someone else's backyard. This time the dectective in question is returning to her own backyard - Dolphin Cove, which is just down the coast from Summer Bay, Austr...
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Episode thirty two - "Silent Witness" season 27, episodes 1 and 2, "Effective Range.")
*This is the second of a two parter on Silent Witness so you may want to listen to part one (ep 31 on Silent Witness season 4, eps and 6) if you want to get the references. But we're not the boss of you so do as you like.*We're ba...
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Episode thirty one - "Silent Witness" (season 4, episodes 5 and 6, "A Good Body.")
Its the first in our two part Silent Witness Extravaganza and we couldn't be more excited! Or we were, until we watched this. We are not the biggest fans of Professor Sam Ryan. Sorry, Sam, but you are a sanctimonious bore. And you use the phras...
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Episode thirty - "Cadfael" (season two, episode three "A Morbid Taste For Bones")
A monk gets bled, has a hallucination, gets fed opium, and the upshot is that there is a murder that Cadfael has to solve, in three days or less. The twelfth century is tough enough without all the slings, arrows, and outrageous hair extensions...
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Episode twenty nine: "Ludwig" (season one, episode two)
We haven't LOVED the newer shows we've covered so far, but that changes here and now because we loved Ludwig. In fact, the only thing that could have made it better would be David Mitchell crooning at the end of each episode. However, we will d...
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Episode twenty eight - "Midsomer Murders" (season fifteen, episode six, "Schooled in Murder")
It's our one year anniversary! Whoop whoop! And to celebrate, Lex has covid. But like a hero, like an avenging angel, she comes through for us and we battle through this delightful, cheesy, nonsense. See what I did there? We ha...
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Episode twenty seven - "Luther" (season one, episode one)
Caution - a dog gets murdered in this episode of Luther. And people are murdered too of course, but that goes without saying. Discussions include Luther's questionable processes (#notallMETpolice), whether a woman who p...
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Episode twenty six - "The Good Ship Murder" (season one, episode two, "Lisbon")
Ok, we didn't love this one, but we did find a reason to be optimistic. Was it the plot? The scripts? The acting? Shayne Ward's linen wardrobe? No. None of those. But even in the darkest of times, we found one thing to love. Have a lis...
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Episode twenty five - "Agatha Christie's Marple" (season six, episode two, "Greenshaw's Folly")
"Can it be? ...it's my own particular one and only four starred pussy. The super pussy of all old pussies..."*IT'S MISS MARPLE!And it's Jane Marple in midsomer land with a high body count and bonkers deaths. We LOVED this and qu...
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Episode twenty four - "The Turkish Detective" (season one, episodes one and two)
Stop me if you've heard this: A detective from the Met Police gets transferred to a complelety different jurisdiction and has to join a team of quirky locals to solve a baffling murder. Nope, it's not Death in Paradise, it's not even McDonald a...
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Episode twenty three - "New Tricks" (season seven, episode six, "Fashion Victim.")
"IT'S ALL RIGHT, IT'S OK, DOESN'T REALLY MATTER IF YOU'RE OLD AND GREY...!"You're welcome, everyone. It's New Tricks, and we have the OG team of Sandra, Jerry, Jack, and Brian. There's a lot of stomping around wearing macs, grum...
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Episode twenty two - "Professor T" (season one, episode five, "Sophie Knows.")
In Professor T we have another psychology professor who helps the police solve crimes, but Jasper Tempest is no Cracker. Thankfully. There are singing teapots, bubbles aplenty, and a badger. Or a fellow called Badger. We don't dwell too...
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Episode twenty one - "Cracker" (season one, episodes one and two, "The Mad Woman in the Attic.")
In this episode we take the adage "if you don't laugh, you'll cry," to the absolute maximum. And friends, we manage not to cry. It's 1993 and Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald has been, you've guessed it, hired as a consultant to the police. He ...
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Episode twenty - "Life on Mars" (season one, episode five)
It's 1973 and Sam Tyler is mad, in a coma, or back in time. There are HUGE lapels, clicky man heels, indoor smoking, and some alledged cattle rustling. We're not sure if we're supposed to fancy Gene Hunt, but we're not judging you if you ...
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Episode nineteen - Beyond Paradise (season two, episode one)
DI Humphrey Goodman has left St Marie in the Caribbean and is now living in the fictional town of Shipton Abbot in Devon with his partner, Martha. And Martha's mother. And a duck named Selwyn. You're not going to believe it, but th...
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