User Reviews

Jessie Cave plays the apparently dimwitted Pandora Pott, and she's not what she seems. All credit to the writing team as they weave in Pandora in a pivotal part of the episode in a twist I didn't see coming for a daytime TV program. Anyway, Inspector Mallory asked a politically incorrect question about the ethnicity of Deepak Chatterjee, and how an Indian could be in British Railways. Nowadays Mallory would probably ask how an Indian could be in 10 Downing Street, such is his political correctness and all that init.

Nick Owenford, Richard Price, Jayne Smith, and Dave Wilson make uncredited appearances.

The sixth season of "Father Brown" has been up and down for me. "The Tree of Truth" was okay, "The Jackdaw's Revenge" a very good one. "The Kembleford Dragon" is a very intriguing title for a show like "Father Brown". It's sad though that the story leaves one cold.

Let's start with good, shall we?

. The production values can not be flawed as usual. "The Kembleford Dragon" is very well shot and the music's wonderful too. The cast does a relatively decent job. Jessie Cave 's enjoyable and Sophie Duvall's performance is agreed captivating. I do not personally think Duvall gave an outstanding performance, but she certainly didn't do bad.

. The script has some spark with lovely humor and some red herrings.

But "The Kembleford Dragon" fell on its nose a lot harder than "The Tree of Truth" in my opinion.

. The story of this episode was not very interesting for me. I often lost my interest, because there are some very obvious clues and twists.

. Also, how the body was found, I thought was quite abrupt. There are times in "The Kembleford Dragon" where it seems likr there is missing information or scenes needed to tell the story fluently. How the murderer does the deed I thought was quite stupid too ( drowning a man with flower water) and there is very few intrigue here.

Overall, an average, let-down of an episode.

5/10 HK