TV celebrity cook Prunella Gladwell arrives in great Slaughter to host a local cookery contest. Sister Boniface springs into action when one of the contestants dies.
Imagine Fanny Craddock crashing into The Great British bake off, that's the setting, throw in a murder, and you have the plot, this was possibly my favourite episode so far, a really enjoyable mystery, with some cracking characters, and a good dollop of humour. Some wonderfully corny lines thrown in, but I think they captured that specific type of show very well.
Sylvestra Le Touzel was an absolute joy as Prunella, she reminded me of her Mary Whitehouse type character from Endeavour, she was awesome here, and had real presence, definitely my favourite character from the series so far. She's done so much since that famous Heineken advert.
Once again, people will be critical over the attitudes shown by some of the characters, and it's fair to say the era perhaps wasn't as tolerant as was presented here, but who cares, it's make believe, it's a wonderful forty five minutes of escapism.
Gloriously good fun, 9/10.
Imagine Fanny Craddock crashing into The Great British bake off, that's the setting, throw in a murder, and you have the plot, this was possibly my favourite episode so far, a really enjoyable mystery, with some cracking characters, and a good dollop of humour. Some wonderfully corny lines thrown in, but I think they captured that specific type of show very well.
Sylvestra Le Touzel was an absolute joy as Prunella, she reminded me of her Mary Whitehouse type character from Endeavour, she was awesome here, and had real presence, definitely my favourite character from the series so far. She's done so much since that famous Heineken advert.
Once again, people will be critical over the attitudes shown by some of the characters, and it's fair to say the era perhaps wasn't as tolerant as was presented here, but who cares, it's make believe, it's a wonderful forty five minutes of escapism.
Gloriously good fun, 9/10.
