Review of Agatha Raisin

Love this show. And in the first 3 series the character of Agatha was beautiful and had a fantastic wardrobe and the stories have always been good fun. However this 4th series has the main character looking like a drag act and behaving like a lily savage type character. Then there is the James Lacy character. A horrible man who forced the idea of marriage on to a clearly lonely and very gun shy of dating and needy person and they hadn't even dated once before he proposed! Then he dumps her at the alter because her abusive ex husband turns up to ruin their big day, and Agatha really thought he was dead. Then James just won't let her move on and find any happiness because he wants to use her as his muse for a book sequel he's writing, while he's got some other woman he's engaged too, and he knows Agatha will do anything for him because he knows she's still in love with him. He's appalling and a gas lighting moron whom the writers should be ashamed of putting into the show and allowing the storyline of their ridiculous romance to keep cropping up. Frankly since Agatha is a private detective and a very savvy business woman she is clearly very intelligent and doesn't need a man in her life least if all one who treats her like that. It would be better if they wrote Fraith in as her love interest. Much better chemistry between the characters too. The rest of the cast are all great and the leading lady is brilliant. Just tone down her ridiculous drag queen persona and get James Lacy written out and that of course leads me to my last criticism. DENZEL WILKES - what a pointless and stupid character. NOT FUNNY and makes me not want to watch the show when he's in it. I just forward the bits on he's in. He's just awful. I'm sure the actor is very talented and in reality a nice person. But I think overall this is a great show just needs to have rid of a couple characters and it would be perfect, for me anyway.