Mourning the Nobility

Today we are in mourning for the untimely death, nay murder, of the 8th Earl of Asherton and his sometime professional companion Barbara Havers. Yes, after starting into them a little bit after Nora was born, we've reached the last DVD of the Lynley series. Apparently the series was despite good ratings simply cancelled mid-production, with only 2 of the ordered 4 episodes of the last series being shot and the two actually filmed buried and aired at a later date. It apparently left the cast as well as fans a bit stunned and there's never been an adequate explanation.

I will miss it and it really does feel like the series died when it was just hitting its prime. I personally was delighted with the departure of the first actress to play Helen, who it seemed to me had absolutely no chemistry with Parker/Lynley and I wasn't sorry to see the character depart period. I also liked what seemed like a bit grittier tone, though there are whisperings that having a child murder featured during the time the Madelaine McCann disappearance might have played a part in the cancellation. It was also rather annoying that after enduring several seasons of shoddy DVD production by PBS, we only got 2 episodes in proper anamorphic widescreen instead of a hardwired letterbox.

We're rapidly running out of mystery series to watch.

Mourning the Nobility

Today we are in mourning for the untimely death, nay murder, of the 8th Earl of Asherton and his sometime professional companion Barbara Havers. Yes, after starting into them a little bit after Nora was born, we've reached the last DVD of the Lynley series. Apparently the series was despite good ratings simply cancelled mid-production, with only 2 of the ordered 4 episodes of the last series being shot and the two actually filmed buried and aired at a later date. It apparently left the cast as well as fans a bit stunned and there's never been an adequate explanation.

I will miss it and it really does feel like the series died when it was just hitting its prime. I personally was delighted with the departure of the first actress to play Helen, who it seemed to me had absolutely no chemistry with Parker/Lynley and I wasn't sorry to see the character depart period. I also liked what seemed like a bit grittier tone, though there are whisperings that having a child murder featured during the time the Madelaine McCann disappearance might have played a part in the cancellation. It was also rather annoying that after enduring several seasons of shoddy DVD production by PBS, we only got 2 episodes in proper anamorphic widescreen instead of a hardwired letterbox.

We're rapidly running out of mystery series to watch.