JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

rphshell This series is one of the most engaging, intelligent, and amusing murder-mystery shows that I have seen on TV. I wish there were more series like this one that combines intelligent writing with humor.

blanche-2 How I love this show, and how excited I am to find there are other programs in this series beyond the original four years. I have only come across the four years on rental disc but have just ordered the rest. I was attracted originally to "Jonathan Creek" because of the description and put it on my lists of films to see. It is fabulous. Jonathan (Alan Davies) is, of course, the genius behind the illusions of a womanizing magician, Adam Klaus.He teams up with Madeline Magellan (Carolyn Quentin), an investigative reporter, who originally is looking into a cold case. She sort of falls for Jonathan -- to be honest, I thought the two made a great team but were unsuited for one another, and I couldn't see bringing any suggestion of romance to the team.The two work on lots of cases together, with Jonathan coming up with some ingenious ways these seemingly impossible, locked-room mysteries could have happened, as well as the way they really did.In season 4, Quentin left the series and Jonathan winds up working with an old girlfriend (Julia Sawalha), to me almost totally unrecognizable as a blond, who is a television reporter, now married. Quentin was better as Jonathan's sidekick, whose personality is showier and more fun than what is written for Sawalha.The mysteries are so clever, so fresh, so well done - I watch these episodes absolutely glued. Alan Davies underplays, showing the thoughtful, cerebral side of his character. He was a nice juxtaposition to Quentin, who plays a nosy, direct, and somewhat flamboyant woman.I hope this series continues to do specials (as they have announced a new one with Joanna Lumley), but I also would like to see it come back, as Alan Davies has hinted it might. That would be incredibly fantastic.

jonfrum2000 I imagine the people most likely to write out a review are fans, but the adulation for this series here is far over the top. The series - at least the first season of it - is nice entertainment. I am currently working my way through them, and I've enjoyed them enough to keep at it. That being said, the series is not brilliant, or excellent or the best TV mystery ever. The plots and solutions are full of holes, to the point where obvious errors and implausible events can't be ignored. And the 'sexual tension' business between the two main characters? 'Will they or won't they' got old twenty years ago in such series. Apparently it appeals to women, so I'm not the intended audience for that trope, but it weighs down the series every time they pull it out of the hat. The idea of an illusion designer as crime solver is a perfectly good one, but actually writing locked room mysteries that work is an art that these television writers have not mastered. Example: in The House of Monkeys, the solution to the mystery involves the habit of a gorilla who lives in a house with his owner(!) to chew up envelopes. C'mon now! This series is more along the lines of Angela Lansbury's Murder She Wrote. Perfectly entertaining for some, as long as you don't take it seriously. And very far from good mysteries, like the Chrisite series like Miss Marple and Poirot.

elsiewagon Can't they do a Johnathon Creek special like they did for The Office? They can't leave it so open-ended! I want Jonathon and Maddy to ride off into the sunset together!! I need closure and I need it now!!! * NOTE: They have book tours in England, why can't Maddy just suddenly show up for a book tour and meet up with Jonathon--then they can get things together, finally, so I can stop watching the old episodes crying in despair (lol) that it will all 'end badly'--I think that the ABFAB kid is okay but she doesn't have the on-screen chemistry with Alan Davies (going out or not) That Caroline Quentin had with him. So her leaving the acting world shouldn't put a damper on the plans...and I'm just babbling on so I can fill the ten line requirement.