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Alan Davies’s self-assured amateur sleuth and Caroline Quentin’s feminist writer take us back to a happy golden age of bad haircuts, landlines and denim
During two weeks of social isolation, I discovered the best antidote to coronavirus anxiety I’ve found so far: Jonathan Creek.
For those unfamiliar with the 1990s murder mystery show, Jonathan Creek follows the adventures of the eponymous magician’s consultant (Alan Davies), who – for the first few series at least – gets dragged into solving crime by his writer friend, Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin). Each episode starts with a baffling mystery that defies any rational explanation. The pair investigate, and Creek, with a talent for rational thought worthy of Edgar Allan Poe’s amateur sleuth Auguste Dupin, is unfailingly able to make sense of the crime. The trick is revealed. Continue reading...