GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Numerootno
A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
telegrafic
As most of present tv crime series Miss Fisher suffers from the same bad things that its contemporaries: too much rugged and unpleasant cases, a bad script, not very convincing performances and -what definitely makes viewer quit this show- an unlikeable main character. So if you put all these aside what does it remain? Beautiful clothes and lovely sets. Miss Fisher could have been an interesting pre-code free woman with a strong will and resolution to solve crimes with the cooperation of the chief police and some friends. And that would have been fine. But writers preferred to create a sort of high class (?) promiscuous lady (ejem) who has sex with a different man in each chapter, walks in beautiful clothes and carries a golden gun. In between, she investigates murders -but really, who cares. Cases are usually lurid and unpleasant (to say the less) including murder, prostitution, child abbuse, sex explotation and other similar subjects.
So finally the only good things of the show are its beautiful clothes and lovely sets. That's all Miss Fisher is. And that's a pity, because it could have been a good tv show set in the roaring 20s about a detective woman who solves crimes with brain and style, a sort of Australian Partners in crime.
Dns1962
This is fun, refreshing, and a side of seriousness. Thank you for this show.
Seriously where's season 4
Missing it!!
umasub-34315
Recently found this show on Netflix and it has made me a total addict. The cast, costumes and the period settings are superb. I also love the variety of settings in each story line - from circuses to factories to beaches. As for Ms Fisher and the Inspector - well I can't wait for their scenes together, and for their story line to develop. Above all else the show stands out for making ms fisher a truly liberated woman of her times, without compromising on her feminine charms. Essie Davis and the restrained acting from the Inspector are priceless. I am still in season one and am rationing how much I see each week as I don't want it to end.This show is Great help in my withdrawal symptoms from Downtown Abbey!
Absalom1991
I am surprised at the applause this shabby, smarmy, self-congratulatory show received from reviewers here. The writing is lazy, the characters mere stock, the performances sophomoric, the too-theatrical clothes ill-fitting (except for the star's), and the plots tediously predictable and uncreative, as well as plain dumb. Claims that there is wit in the series obviously came from someone for whom the term is a stranger.Apparently this is what is considered a "woman's show," meaning if they stuff it with enough hats and male-victimized ladies who also behave a in crudely "worldly" fashion they don't think they need to bother with actual qualities of merit. If I were a woman I would be offended at the sham. As a man I can add that I do not appreciate being slapped across the face by faux sexism every five minutes. Emasculation as a constant theme is tedious. The smug and humorless silliness starts with the supposed sleuth, Miss Fischer - too mature for her look and behavior - with the first episode, as she manages to arrive by ship, entertain a "non-feminized" female doctor friend, head for lunch, encounter a murder there along with her clumsily portrayed dragon aunt, become involved with a poor unfortunate abortion victim in hospital (fired that morning by the murder victim and cared for by the aforementioned doctor), go to a prison to confront the murderer of her sister, and undertake the job of undertaking a soirée to take place the next night AT THE HOUSE OF THE MURDER VICTIM, changing her clothes five times in the process prior to the sun setting.It is an insult to the genre. It fails as a spoof, a comedy of manners, a detective show, a sex romp, a period piece, a social commentary or a camp send-up. The gratuitous nods to "women getting their own" are deplorably shabby. The main character is inexorably reduced to appearing as a condescending b*tch.It aims at the lowest notions of what women, not to mention viewers in general, want. In the process it treats the viewer as a drooling stooge to be titillated by inauthentic and clumsy burlesque. That it does so while pretending to invoke serious matters of drug addiction, murder, and the kidnap and drugged abortion of an abused young woman shows that this show is at heart cynically mean-spirited. I suggest that people approving the enterprise fit the description appearing in the second sentence of this paragraph. Shame on the team cranking this thing out.
