WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

telegrafic As most of present tv crime series Miss Fisher suffers from the same bad things that its contemporaries: too much rugged and unpleasant cases, a bad script, not very convincing performances and -what definitely makes viewer quit this show- an unlikeable main character. So if you put all these aside what does it remain? Beautiful clothes and lovely sets. Miss Fisher could have been an interesting pre-code free woman with a strong will and resolution to solve crimes with the cooperation of the chief police and some friends. And that would have been fine. But writers preferred to create a sort of high class (?) promiscuous lady (ejem) who has sex with a different man in each chapter, walks in beautiful clothes and carries a golden gun. In between, she investigates murders -but really, who cares. Cases are usually lurid and unpleasant (to say the less) including murder, prostitution, child abbuse, sex explotation and other similar subjects. So finally the only good things of the show are its beautiful clothes and lovely sets. That's all Miss Fisher is. And that's a pity, because it could have been a good tv show set in the roaring 20s about a detective woman who solves crimes with brain and style, a sort of Australian Partners in crime.

sashascarlett Hmmm. Wasn't sure about this program that I decided to binge watch over the Thanksgiving Holidays. Delighted that I did. It is not deep mystery or action-packed excitement. It is plucky heroine and Jessica Fletcher light with Miss Marples-styled whodunits that conclude efficiently in an hour, but the mystery is not the reason to watch this show. The cast lead by a charming and delightful Essie Davis makes this a must see. I love her character and her frump of an assistant, Dot (Ashleigh Cummings). Her posturing with Jack Robinson (Nathan Page), a "real" detective is sexy and witty and completely different than other similar police-fish out of water romances (it is dry as sherry and the two have real chemistry). Hugh (played by Hugo Johnstone-Burt) especially in scenes with Dot are burgeoning with young romance and tingle with the sensation of realness. The other supporting cast, most notably Miriam Margolyes (who usually plays a frumpy English peasant woman but here plays a frumpy English aristocrat) is excellent as are the two men, Miss Fisher hires to do handy-work (and spy work) and her butler, Neil Melville, a delight if bordering on camp.Easy on the eyes, the costumes (British award winner, Marion Boyce) is a dream come true. Davis looks stunning in everything and everything looks stunning on Davis. Watch this with a cup of tea and a gentle heart and you will walk away charmed and enchanted by the magic this cast makes. A delight with a pinch of sardonic mystery added in for posterity.

mapcp20 The series is spectacular! The figurine, the actors, the characterization, are brilliant! The show is smart,intelligent, entertaining, beautifully done with the right among of humor. Essie Davis is perfect as Phrine Fisher! Nathan is also brilliant and u'll catch yourself cheering for then all the time! The outfits and jewelry are to die for and we could use it right now! The should produce some specials about this because is inevitable to be drowned to the visual appeal. Phrine is the ultimate super woman and she's awesome for today, imagine for 20's ?! One of the best shows available in TV. The best way to travel back to 20's with all the appropriate glamour! The biggest problem is the short seasons and big time among then, I hope the producers make more episodes.

Absalom1991 I am surprised at the applause this shabby, smarmy, self-congratulatory show received from reviewers here. The writing is lazy, the characters mere stock, the performances sophomoric, the too-theatrical clothes ill-fitting (except for the star's), and the plots tediously predictable and uncreative, as well as plain dumb. Claims that there is wit in the series obviously came from someone for whom the term is a stranger.Apparently this is what is considered a "woman's show," meaning if they stuff it with enough hats and male-victimized ladies who also behave a in crudely "worldly" fashion they don't think they need to bother with actual qualities of merit. If I were a woman I would be offended at the sham. As a man I can add that I do not appreciate being slapped across the face by faux sexism every five minutes. Emasculation as a constant theme is tedious. The smug and humorless silliness starts with the supposed sleuth, Miss Fischer - too mature for her look and behavior - with the first episode, as she manages to arrive by ship, entertain a "non-feminized" female doctor friend, head for lunch, encounter a murder there along with her clumsily portrayed dragon aunt, become involved with a poor unfortunate abortion victim in hospital (fired that morning by the murder victim and cared for by the aforementioned doctor), go to a prison to confront the murderer of her sister, and undertake the job of undertaking a soirée to take place the next night AT THE HOUSE OF THE MURDER VICTIM, changing her clothes five times in the process prior to the sun setting.It is an insult to the genre. It fails as a spoof, a comedy of manners, a detective show, a sex romp, a period piece, a social commentary or a camp send-up. The gratuitous nods to "women getting their own" are deplorably shabby. The main character is inexorably reduced to appearing as a condescending b*tch.It aims at the lowest notions of what women, not to mention viewers in general, want. In the process it treats the viewer as a drooling stooge to be titillated by inauthentic and clumsy burlesque. That it does so while pretending to invoke serious matters of drug addiction, murder, and the kidnap and drugged abortion of an abused young woman shows that this show is at heart cynically mean-spirited. I suggest that people approving the enterprise fit the description appearing in the second sentence of this paragraph. Shame on the team cranking this thing out.