The series was always clever and kept you guessing and while it ran for a good while it had more recently been reduced to occasional specials which I always assumed was due to the creative team only making the show when they had a new idea. It was with this in mind that I looked to the new 3 episode series with some trepidation.
Spinning out from a recent special Creek has now retired from advertising, married Sarah Alexander and got a job in advertising which is a decent way of filling in the years between specials. They move to the country and encounter some new mysteries.
The first story was a real let down. The mysteries themselves are ok, although the only ones that are left at all mysterious involve a roomba and a magically appearing newspaper cutting. The actual mystery is revealed as it happens which is a bit strange. Aside from a friendly jab at Sherlock there wasn't much there.
The next too were improved but, as the kids say, I wasn't "feeling it". Possibly fixing the setting in one village is part of the problem, diluting the mystery with zany small village antics, but I also think Alexander doesn't help. It is hard to place but she doesn't seem to work as well as her predecessors. I can't help but feel the series would have worked better if Smith had been retained to create a bit of friction, with Alexander being an anchor to normality and smith dragging creek to the next mystery.
Overall it is definitely weaker than the older stories. I'll keep watching if more are made but at the moment I think.this was best left alone.
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