To think that Vera is the worst crime drama of our age?

[MorrisZapp]

I love a cosy ITV procedural, and happily go along with the expositional dialogue and hoary old stereotyped characters but fuck my old boots this is unwatchable stuff.

Tinkly 'suspense' music, mugging to camera, and her grating voice drove me over to Grand Designs by the second ad break. I believe it's on season 11, so clearly it's a much loved show in some quarters.

YABU - how dare you, I love watching detectives two decades past retirement age turn up and call a corpse 'pet'

YANBU - it used to be finely nuanced, edgy stuff but I feel it's lost it's way somewhat

@SilentBob

Oh how I have tried to love Vera. I can't. And I am a massive fan of cosy crap detective tv shows!

Actually, does anyone have any recommendations?

Shakespeare and Hathaway (or is it the other war round?) is v cosy. I also love Hetty Wainthropp.

I hate her clothes, her accent, her bumbling walk/run. Midsomer is OK for passing the time; I prefer the current Barnaby. Joyce irritated me with her book-clubs and art classes. Am currently enjoying life under the sea with Karen from Corrie.

I love Vera, but definitely prefer the earlier series. I’ve read a couple of the books and really liked them.

We recently re-watched the first few episodes of Jonathan Creek. God that’s cheesy. I absolutely loved it back in the day, but watching now the ‘sexual chemistry’ between Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin is arse clenchingly awful.

YABU. I love Vera. Admittedly I haven't watched the last two series for various reasons so maybe it's gone downhill since I last watched, but from the ones I have watched, it's just easy going tv.

My mum is reading one of the Vera books at the moment and is raving about it so maybe I'll give the books a go.

My parents used to love Heartbeat .................there were no corpses and the most exciting thing was Greengrass failing to pay his paperbill and blinking rapidly when caught out .

I watched one episode of Vera so not qualified to comment .

You are being soooo unreasonable

I love Vera, and Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise, Father Brown, etc, etc.

I love cosy murders too and I'm not a fan of the TV series.
The books read on Audible are quite good though. Same woman writes Shetland too

Wash out your mouth! Vera is one of my favourites! I might or might not have a thing for DS Healy. I didn't like the very first episodes very much. Vera was often breathless and anxious and it made me the same but I love it now. The scenery is fab, I love the accents (real it fake I don't care) and I love trying to figure out whodunnit. She has compassion for the victims and also for the perps. She's understanding but never excuses anyone their behaviour. Her humour is dry and sarcastic and I think it's great to see an older woman in a position of authority where she uses her intelligence to connect the dots and has respect from her team. Ive just been reading horribly sexist and ageist posts on my local Facebook group and having a character like Vera is a great counter to the people who think older people are not useful to society especially if they are a woman.

The dreadful accent she puts on is utterly horrendous and it's for this reason alone I cannot watch it!

Omg you dare come for Rosemary and Thyme? My mum has the box set 🤣🤣

I've just remembered I used to be absolutely addicted to Diagnosis Murder so maybe I'm not the best judge

I love Vera. Legend

@MLMbotsno

Have you seen Midsomer Murders (I think that's what it is called) it's awful. Everyone in the small village is either a murderer, murdered or an accomplice.

But that's the whole point of Midsomer Murders! Plus lots of country property porn. It's massively popular abroad apparently, where the title is often just translated as "Detective Barnaby" which is why when John Nettles left they had to have the new bloke be a relative with the same name.

I think the recent ITV Marples have been pretty poor, even meddling with the plot, as though they can tell a story better than the world's best selling novelist.

Aww I love Vera, it's an easy watch. I preferred David Leon to Kenny Dougherty though, Kenny just seems a bit wooden.

Still amazed by all the countries they sell it too though. I do wonder if they need to subtitle it 😂

How dare you?

@NapoleonOzmolysis
@Gingernaut
Ahhh thank you. Haven't seen him kneeling at her feet but sounds as it should be.

@MLMbotsno

Have you seen Midsomer Murders (I think that's what it is called) it's awful. Everyone in the small village is either a murderer, murdered or an accomplice.

That's why it is called 'Misomer Murders' Come on !

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

My parents used to love Heartbeat .................there were no corpses and the most exciting thing was Greengrass failing to pay his paperbill and blinking rapidly when caught out .

I watched one episode of Vera so not qualified to comment .

My gran thought Greengrass was real. I absolutely could not persuade her otherwise.

@Mandofan

How dare you?

🤣🤣🤣

And what about the travesty that is Father Brown..........?

Underhand skullduggery to replace Doctors .....

Father Brown is awesome too. These shows are my comfort viewing. Once you know the characters they are become like old friends and there's a lot of humour to the episodes. At first view they may seem bland but there's more to them than meets the eye. Some great one-liners. Murder, She Wrote is an old favourite of mine since childhood. And Columbo. Quincy. Pure escapism.

Well I watch it, but it’s not great. I don’t like how they change place names and how they skip from one place to another when those places are nowhere near each other.
And since when has her house been over the Holy Island causeway?

It's ok, my DM likes it but I much prefer Shetland and wish there was as much of that as there is of Vera.

YANBU - I gave up on Vera ages ago. It felt slow and miserable.

Anyone having a go at Midsommer Murders definitely is BU, though. I adore Midsommer Murders, I'll happily watch repeats too - generally a reliably high body count and suitably ludicrous methods of dispatch. And there's always fun to be had working out which of the characters this week is the deranged and murderous long lost child/sibling/former spouse masquerading as a normal villager.

I love Rosemary and Thyme. It's like Midsomer in feel but with added gardening.

@FlatteredFool

Father Brown is awesome too. These shows are my comfort viewing. Once you know the characters they are become like old friends and there's a lot of humour to the episodes. At first view they may seem bland but there's more to them than meets the eye. Some great one-liners. Murder, She Wrote is an old favourite of mine since childhood. And Columbo. Quincy. Pure escapism.

I love them too. Like a familiar friend in a warm blanket