#midsomer murders s23

[smallcoppers]

S23E2 The Debt of Lies UK broadcast scheduled for Tuesday 16th July at 8.15pm (x)

[allthemurders]

currently thinking about an alternate ending of midsomer murders s23 ep4 - dressed to kill where olivia goes after sarah bc of sarah previously being made headteacher instead of her.

i have no real plotline ideas for this (i mean honestly it would make even less sense than my s15 ep2 sarah whump au, which is saying something) — just the thought of john and jamie finding what’s-his-name (the guy who actually almost got killed at the end) unharmed with no olivia in sight, asking him if he knows where she is, and him mentioning something about the school or headteacher position or smth that makes john realise sarah’s in danger. then john and jamie rushing to the car, jamie driving at top speed to get to the barnabys’ house before it’s too late, while john sits in the passenger seat frantically trying over and over to call sarah and warn her.

(jamie panicking bc he might lose sarah when he’s not even got to tell her that he thinks of her as his mum — maybe even calling her mum or somehow acknowledging the family dynamic he has with john & sarah & betty once olivia’s been arrested and they can all breathe a sigh of relief)

[dailymidsomermurders]

MIDSOMER MURDERS (1997 - PRESENT)

[miladythewinter]

Media I read and watched in January 2024:

** favourites // (r) rewatch

Books/Comics:

SW: Kanan Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto**

Viagem ao Paraíso Verde (Journey to the River Sea), Eva Ibbotson

Movies:

Boston Strangler

Widows 2018**

Christine 2016**

Alita Battle Angel

Office Space

The Big Short

First Man**

Blade Runner 2049

Ocean's 11 (r) **

Ocean's 12 (r)

Ronin**

Vice (don't watch this)

Sully

Ocean's 13 (r)

TV:

Midsomer Murders S23

Masters of the Air (started) (reason austin butler and callum turner are my guys now)

[earlymidsomermurders]

Since s23 of Midsomer Murders is around the corner, what plots or scenes are you looking forward to see in the later series?

I unironically love that you’re asking me this. What i really look forward to is....... seeing something exciting. New Midsomer is good fun. But every now and again there is an ep that just makes me lose it??? And THAT’S what I’m looking forward to. Happy Families was amazing.......They committed so hard to the classic locked room mystery I was screaming. It had an armchair detective ffs. Can you trope-dump harder?? I loved every second, it was so slow and so into itself?? Or Habeas Corpus. Love LOVE that ep. Beautifully written, intense. Breathtaking photography. A great family drama with good subtle takes on social issues. I love eps that don’t just rely on the usual Midsomer weirdness and the mechanics of a solid whodunit. When there is a richness beyond that. With early Midsomer I’m easy to please......I have my fave eps but at the end of the day I just wanna watch Tom do Tom things. New Midsomer I watch for the actual show. And Fleur. So this is what I’m looking forward to, some hopefully wild shit. 

[hecticwinter]

Wanna know if you have any predictions for s23 of Midsomer Murders?

Predictions? Not really tbh. I mean the first episode is called ‘The Blacktrees Prophecy’ so I’m guessing there will be something about local/family myths and prophecies... but other than that, no.

There are several things I would like to see: better representation of literally everything, more character development, more wacky and ott murders, maybe bring a character back or reference older cases/episodes if it fits with the story.

[smallcoppers]

S23E1 The Blacktrees Prophecy UK broadcast scheduled for April 14th at 8pm (x)

[smallcoppers]

S23E3 A Grain of Truth UK broadcast scheduled for Tuesday 23rd July at 8pm (x)

[allthemurders]

anyone know where i can watch midsomer murders s23 & 24 in the uk?? preferably with subtitles but that’s not a necessity

(i originally watched 23 on dailymotion but the videos seem to have been taken down since then)

[dailymidsomermurders]

MIDSOMER MURDERS (1997 - PRESENT) Season 23, Episode 3

[dailymidsomermurders]

Official Trailer for Midsomer Murders Season 23

Premiering on AcornTV on the 12th of December 2022

[allthemurders]

ok but when tHE FUCK are we going to get midsomer murders s23 in the uk i am gOING TO COMMIT ARSON I STG—

[dailymidsomermurders]

with season 23 of midsomer murders about to start, i just wanted to reiterate that at this point, no spoilers for this season will be posted on the blog. however, IF and that is a big if but IF anything for the new season was to be posted, it would not be anything with too many spoilers and i will be using the tag #midsomer spoilers so make sure you blacklist it if you want to remain spoiler free for the season. 

[allthemurders]

i found your sarah barnaby whump posts and I'm desperate for more do u have any more ideas or thoughts ahdjsj

HELLO HI I AM ALWAYS DOWN TO TALK ABOUT SARAH BARNABY WHUMP!! i have So Many thoughts and ideas hehehehehe

ngl it’s been A While since i last watched midsomer tho, so my memories of it are all a bit hazy and i’ve probably misremembered some plot points / timings / etc. this is also why some of these ideas are Extremely Vague hgkfjdjfhf

(i’m gonna put it all under the cut bc the post got fairly long, wHoOpS)

ep-specific whump:

s19 ep5 - death by persuasion : the aim is a little off with the warning shot during the ball, and sarah gets hit. or she gets hit by a mirror shard. either way, she’s in a regency era ball gown and she is bleeding out while john frantically tries to help her. (this naturally gives her ideas for her book, much to john’s concern)

s20 ep2 - death of the small coppers : i was So sure sarah was gonna end up getting caught helping birgitte with her investigation and that some sort of whump would play out with that. i have no real thoughts of what or how or why exactly, but i Need it. possibly could have birgitte & sarah being caught snooping and subsequently getting whumped together??? helping each other stay strong throughout it, then working out an escape plan and getting themselves out before john & jamie can even attempt to rescue them??? also unrelated but sarah should’ve been there for the jamie whump scene at the end i stg

s21 ep2 - the miniature murders : THE MURDERER WAS LITERALLY IN JOHN & SARAH’S HOUSE WITH SARAH & BETTY. WHY DID NOTHING HAPPEN WITH THIS?????? MIDSOMER WRITERS HATE ME I STG 😭😭 anyways what if john & jamie rush in, john telling sarah to take betty to play in her room, but sarah doesn’t get the opportunity to leave?? the murderer grabs her in a panic and pulls a knife (or possibly a dangerous improvised weapon of some kind, i’m hazy on the details of this ep) and takes her hostage. jamie hurries betty upstairs on john’s orders, trying his best to console her and answer her questions while also massively worrying about his adoptive mum sarah. john is left to talk the murderer down on his own

s22 ep5 - for death prepare : things go massively wrong when sarah is on stage. i’m talking “murderer walks on stage in full costume with an actual extremely lethal sword or a period-accurate gun” kind of massively wrong. “the last guy he wants to kill is also on stage” kind of massively wrong. “sarah just gets in the way of his revenge and ends up with a severe wound” kind of massively wrong. (john and jamie get there in time to see it happen but too late to actually stop it. they both blame themselves for not getting there sooner)

s23 ep1 - the blacktrees prophecy : so many vague and depressing thoughts about sarah having a Bad Childhood™ with far too much pressure on her to always be perfect, because nothing was ever good enough for her mum no matter how hard she tried. (*literally looks so upset by the thought of her mum coming to stay that john thinks she’s straight up died* / “oh, i’m just touching up a few patches [of paint on the walls]. you know how my mother likes to point out every little imperfection” / “the house is, er… looking lovely” “well, i’m sure she’ll find fault somewhere”). HER SCENES IN THIS EP PHYSICALLY HURT ME HONESTLY. SHE IS SO STRESSED AND TENSE,,,,,,,,, and then basically as soon as she finds out her mum’s going to her sister’s instead you can See this massive weight has been lifted off her. like ik there’s a couple hours between her finding out and the actual scene at the end, bUT STILL. IT’S LIKE FLICKING A SWITCH???? SHE’S SUDDENLY HAPPY AND JOKING WITH JOHN AGAIN??????? sorry this was basically just me repeating canon but i have too many Feelings about it 😭😭

s23 ep3 - a grain of truth : look honestly i don’t really remember anything about this ep other than that sarah was at the place where a murder happened or smth and iirc exactly zero whump came out of this. some whump should’ve come out of this. also weren’t ppl being poisoned with ergot or smth?? why was sarah not poisoned with ergot??

non-ep whump:

john gets a call from betty’s school saying that it’s getting pretty late, will he or sarah be picking her up soon? and he’s a little confused, because it’s meant to be sarah’s day to do the school pickup and it’s not like her to forget, but he figures she must’ve been waylaid by something. he calls her, but it just goes to voicemail. he calls again; still nothing. he’s concerned now, wondering why she isn’t answering, but he knows she sometimes gets stuck in unplanned meetings for ages, so it’s like a low-level concern as he leaves work early to pick betty up. his worry absolutely skyrockets when he finds the front door kicked in, the living room trashed, and the house empty despite sarah’s car being parked up outside. a ransom note and proof of life photos arrive the following morning

john & sarah are held captive together for some reason. john’s being Extremely Annoying in order to get the captors to keep their focus on him, because he’s willing to take all the consequences of their anger if it keeps sarah out of harm’s way. one of the captors eventually hurts sarah to try and keep him in line, and he just goes absolutely feral

sarah should get to watch someone being killed. as a treat (..ok probably not for her, but it would be for me ✌️😎)

tbh most of the rest of my misc ideas are just various other forms of “sarah gets Beaten Up!!” or “sarah gets held hostage to get john to cooperate!!” s o o o yea that is basically all i can think of atm 👀

tysm for the ask, and i really really hope you enjoyed this whump as much as i enjoyed thinking about it!! ✨✨✨

[allthemurders]

crime shows i’ve watched

— every crime show i’ve watched, in alphabetical order! main fandoms are marked with a star

at some point i will finish all the ones i got partway through and then forgot about. maybe

agatha christie’s poirot

⭐️ agatha raisin

⭐️ annika

beyond paradise

broadchurch (s1 only)

brooklyn nine-nine (haven’t watched past s6 ep16 yet)

⭐️ death in paradise

⭐️ father brown

hidden // craith

magpie murders

⭐️ midsomer murders (including s23 & 24; all posts about these will be tagged with #midsomer murders s23 / s24 and #midsomer murders spoilers)

miss marple (bbc)

⭐️ murder in provence

⭐️ only murders in the building

professor t (haven’t finished s2 yet)

⭐️ shakespeare & hathaway

sherlock (bbc) (haven’t watched s4 ep3 yet)

⭐️ silent witness

⭐️ sister boniface mysteries (including s3; all posts about this will be tagged with #sister boniface s3 and #sister boniface spoilers)

the bay (haven’t finished s4 yet)

the long call

⭐️ the mallorca files — posts on @the-mallorca-files

trigger point (haven’t watched s2 yet)

unforgotten (haven’t finished s5 yet)

vera (haven’t finished; not sure how much left)

wallander (haven’t finished; not sure how much left)

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (25-31 Dec 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍Hogfather (Terry Pratchett, author; Sian Clifford/Bill Nighy/Peter Serafinowicz, narrator) - I thought this was gonna be a reread but it turned out I hadn't actually read it before! It's Pratchett so of course it was very entertaining. Excellent narration as well - really clever way to do the footnotes.

🥰do you get déjà vu? (dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14) - pt 3 in the AU where college bro Joe is the newest immortal - it's 7 years on, Joe & Nicky are heading back to college to search for a missing person and find someone they definitely do not expect

😍😍4 Minute Window series (Speranza) - 179K, canon-divergent stucky au - annual reread of one of the best series series/fics in the entire fandom (all but the as-yet unfinished 2022 advent story)

😊Fuckboi Hob vs The Endless Family Dinner (dancinbutterfly) - 41K, human AU - enjoyable fic prompted from that craigslist ad about a fake holiday date to piss off your family

💖💖 +496K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The First Rule of Book Club series (Deisderium) - MCU: stucky, 28K - reread of this fave - post WS, Bucky moves to a small town in NC and joins a book club - I adore the outsider POV/OC in this so MUCH!

Can’t you see I’m ready now (Bittersweet_in_Boston) - MCU: stucky no powers AU, 3K - pretty much just PWP but seriously 🔥🔥🔥

the queen of spades (magneticwave) - James Bond: 00Q, 21K - nice little fic where Q has siblings which confounds & intrigues Bond

Synchronicity (stereobone) - James Bond: 00Q, 7K - "It goes on like that for months, and then Q realizes that James Bond is "hanging out" at his flat." - reread, this one is a fave

undersell, overcommit (silentwalrus) - MCU: stucky, 10K - reread, love this one so much - Bucky could really benefit from massage therapy, so Steve just…becomes a licensed massage therapist. The characterizations/character voices are SO FUCKING GOOD in this.

Not In The Answer But The Question (aimmyarrowshigh) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 27K - love me some shrunkyclunks goodness like this! man-out-of-time/defrosted cap!steve finds an anchor to his past in a deli in brooklyn (and the cute jewish deli owner) - lots of flashbacks & steve healing

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Midsomer Murders - s23, e1-3

Enola Holmes 2

A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley - e1 "The New Taste for Blood"

The Last of Sheila

Hot Ones - Kevin Bacon Needs Six Degrees of Separation From Spicy Wings

Hot Ones - Tessa Thompson Feels Alive While Eating Spicy Wings

Hot Ones - Daniel Kaluuya Listens to His Ego While Eating Spicy Wings

Hot Ones - Lizzo Earns Her Hot Sauce Crown While Eating Spicy Wings

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Off Menu - Ep 174: Mel Giedroyc (Christmas Special)

Ologies with Alie Ward - P-22: The Life & Death of an L.A. Cougar with Miguel Ordeñana & Beth Pratt

Vibe Check - 2022 - That’s a Wrap!

Desert Island Discs - Baz Luhrmann, director

Decoder Ring Plus - The Mailbag Episode

Hot and Bothered - Live from Pemberley: Sexuality in the Regency (with Emily Nagoski)

Into It - Are We Into or Not Into 2022?

Come As You Are - Prelude: Pleasure is The Measure

Weather Geeks - Weather in Hollywood

Weather Geeks - Lights… Camera… Climate!

Ologies with Alie Ward - Bonus Episode: Secrets, Advice + Ask-Me-Anything

Hit Parade Plus - Hits of the Year Edition Part 1 & Part 2

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Classical Calm

Timeless Classics

Feel-Good Classic Rock

RENAISSANCE [Beyoncé]