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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: "Unnatural Habits"

You could tell this was an Australian show and not a British one because when the lead characters were considering a raid on a group of nogoodniks, the characters showed no hesitation in bringing out the firearms.

That said, this show is to be commended for doing a good job of balancing modern and not so modern sensibilities in a believable manner. If a woman like Essie Davis's Phryne Fisher character did not really exist in the Australia of the late 1920s, the stories in this show make a strong case that she should have. Actress Ashleigh Cummings also stars in this series, playing Ms. Fisher's loyal companion Dorothy Williams, a former maid who plays a Catholic Watson to Ms. Fisher's self-described lady detective. And of course, I should not forget to mention actor Nathan Page, who plays Ms. Fisher's would-be love interest Detective Inspector John "Jack" Robinson.

There are other characters, of course, whom I'll probably mention in future reviews but for now, the one regret I have about the episodes of this show that I've watched thus far is that I have not yet managed to find time to read the Kerry Greenwood novels that inspired them. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.