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5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Murdoch Mysteries: The Un-Breaking Bad — My NEW PJMedia post

October 1, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Includes some pretty good video clips…

In spite of myself, I got hooked on this series, which is set in the Victorian-Edwardian Toronto of the 1890s, when one of today’s most multicultural cities on earth was still majority white, British-born and “Orange” (that is, Protestant.)

The hero, Detective Murdoch, is a devout Catholic, however; he gravely crosses himself whenever he stumbles across a body — which he does quite a bit.

(Come to think of it, the murder rate in this fictional “Hogtown” seems only slightly lower than that of the modern one I live in…)

Detective Murdoch is an outsider in other ways.

He’s a kind of steampunk MacGuyver-meets-Agent Mulder-meets-Dr. Spencer Reid:

A preternaturally handsome and exquisitely mannered genius who, you see, was the real inventor of fingerprinting, the fax machine and loads of other modern technology — it’s just that, being Canadian, he was too modest to take credit for them.

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