Take Murder, She Wrote, replace a mystery writer with a chef, and you get Mrs Sidhu Investigates. Only without the charm or barely any well-known actors.
Mrs Sidhu only gets involved in the investigation because, by an astonishing coincidence, she starts a catering job at a gym the day after two murders occur. By an amazing coincidence, her "niece" happens to work there and, by an incredible coincidence, is the prime suspect.
By the following day, without doing any kind of Jessica Fletcher-type snooping or inconspicuous interrogation of the people involved, she presents the police inspector on the case with a dossier she's produced, with motives, alibis, and photographs of all the suspects... including, for some reason, the inspector himself!
And that's it. We never see her doing any actual investigation. And the resolution of the mystery is galloped through in such a garbled manner, it's hard to understand what the hell it was all about : someone was blackmailing someone who was blackmailing someone else with something that was only mentioned briefly in passing, and was somehow driven to kill for some vague reason.
The most irritating thing is at the finale, Mrs Sidhu tells the inspector "We solved our first case together". Why would she assume she's going to be solving any further cases with him... unless she has another relative who coincidentally happens to work for an obviously potential murder victim that she just happens to be catering for.
The performances were okay, but nothing special, and I don't know if this appeals enough to want to watch any further episodes.
Mrs Sidhu only gets involved in the investigation because, by an astonishing coincidence, she starts a catering job at a gym the day after two murders occur. By an amazing coincidence, her "niece" happens to work there and, by an incredible coincidence, is the prime suspect.
By the following day, without doing any kind of Jessica Fletcher-type snooping or inconspicuous interrogation of the people involved, she presents the police inspector on the case with a dossier she's produced, with motives, alibis, and photographs of all the suspects... including, for some reason, the inspector himself!
And that's it. We never see her doing any actual investigation. And the resolution of the mystery is galloped through in such a garbled manner, it's hard to understand what the hell it was all about : someone was blackmailing someone who was blackmailing someone else with something that was only mentioned briefly in passing, and was somehow driven to kill for some vague reason.
The most irritating thing is at the finale, Mrs Sidhu tells the inspector "We solved our first case together". Why would she assume she's going to be solving any further cases with him... unless she has another relative who coincidentally happens to work for an obviously potential murder victim that she just happens to be catering for.
The performances were okay, but nothing special, and I don't know if this appeals enough to want to watch any further episodes.
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