Amie P

Series 3 - So vacuous I need to vent! I know I watch this for the fabulous clothes and unrelatable lifestyles of women that I will never have, so I do want the 'light relief'. But I really can't care about Carrie's main concern in life being how to furnish her apartment and I want to switch off every time Charlotte is talking with a frozen face and constantly overly expressive manner, like she's acting in a 'Carry On' film / porno. I am not invested in any of the main characters or their storylines, except Seema who I love for her sass.

It's time for Death in Paradise to die. I'm sorry to say this because I've enjoyed this programme from the start, but recently it's getting a bit rubbish. Like everyone else in the UK, we love to watch this in the cold winter months for a hit of tropical island sunshine, which is why it is religiously scheduled for Jan-Feb every year, but this is no longer enough to paper over the cracks. The whodunnit storylines are still good, but the acting is getting weak. With Darlene delivering lines like a breathy Marylin Monroe as a constant reminder that she was hired as the office help by Selwyn in the episode where he seemed to be very charmed by her, to this week's episode when Neville floated about for most of it in a daze and then had a laughable, completely out of character, over exaggerated meltdown on thinking that his new arch nemesis in the form of Jake was going to get away with murder, is enough to probably make this the last series I watch.

I agree with some of the more recent reviews. This show is still good, but it has started to wear thin. I struggled to stay engaged with the last series and have now deleted the current series from planner after only two episodes. I will not be watching again. It's got a bit too far fetched in terms of the storylines and strayed too far away from just being about good forensic science that catches out the bad guys. Plus I haven't really warmed to any of the new main characters. I think the final nail in the coffin for me was all the weird zoned out moments Nikki was having in the first two-parter. When you start to watch a programme and then realise you don't actually recall the last 15 minutes you have just sat through, it's time to switch off because my brain already has.