I was upset that this's was just badly written and acted but having read he reviews on here o see people seem to think that this is portraying history accurately!? Perhaps in an age of morons artistic licence has gone too far?

Clever and fun to watch. A history lesson in every episode. I've seen every episode-please make more.

The Murdoch Mysteries is presently my FAVORITE show. I love everything about it. The era is vividly portrayed; the sets, the costumes, are magnificent. The characters are all portrayed with characteristics given to each person that they have become very endearing. Inspector/Detective Murdoch is handsome and extremely intellectual and hospitable. I love the fact that Murdoch is a Roman Catholic in what was at the time a predominantly Protestant city. I love that he makes the sign of the cross when he comes upon a deceased person. Constable George is wonderfully portrayed, and the way he not so subtly hints at future inventions is clever indeed! The way they tie in famous people is a stroke of genius! I hope that it continues for many many seasons.

I love detective mysteries, and in particular I enjoy ones set in the Victorian era, so I admit with reluctance that Murdoch Mysteries almost makes me want to swear off both era and genre altogether. Almost. The main character is inarguably the smartest, most effective policeman in his station (regardless of how utterly cliché and guessable a great deal of the "mysteries" are), and yet he simply allows himself to be berated by his hot-headed, moronic boss and every other plot-device naysayer the writers can't seem to do without. This makes every episode's story flow painfully stuttered for no good reason, and also introduces a lot of aggravating, stereotypical suspects. The "idiot-driven plot" is par for the course with this show, sometimes getting so bad it becomes not so much a mystery as a game of monkey-in-the-middle, wherein the detective struggles to wrap up the case simply because everyone around him is obtusely and purposelessly unhelpful. CSI Miami's Horatio Caine would never stand for such hem-hawing idiocy, and Sherlock Holmes would deftly manipulate his way past them. John Murdoch simply looks politely perplexed and does nothing, which means we can only suffer in silence as it happens again and again. In addition to the clichés, generic plots, meek main character, and moronic background characters, we are also subject to never- ending soapboxing, and by insultingly anachronistic philosophies of the progressive persuasion. A good writer MAY be able to weave modern social issues into historical fiction in an intelligent, thoughtful way. The writers of this show approach such touchy material with the grace, talent and intelligence of a lobotomized democratic hippo on rollerskates in a China shop. Each subject is dealt with in such a crass, illogical, ham-fisted way, it makes me sincerely embarrassed for progressives. People back then simply did not speak or think the way they do in this show. Hell, I hardly see it now! It's insultingly dishonest, and I sincerely doubt it will change anyone's mindset. On top of that it makes for annoying, patronizing television. So there you have it: a nice premise, some nice characters, some nice costumes, some fun plots, idiotic writing, adequate-at-best acting, clichés galore, insufferable preachiness, often poor pacing, and a deficient level of suspense. Watch if you're bored.