My Journey through Midsomer

Travel Notes on Beauty, Nostalgia and the Art of Dying Properly

 

There is a county that doesn’t exist. And yet we return to it – again and again.

Midsomer is more than just the setting of a long-running crime series. It’s a landscape of longing, a world made of hedgerows, teasets and silences too neat to be innocent.

This ongoing essay collection is a personal attempt to make sense of that landscape. Each text is a travel note, tracing scenes, atmospheres, and details from Midsomer Murders – and linking them to broader themes: beauty and staging, nostalgia and order, memory and loss.

On my personal website, petra-tabarelli.com, I will start sharing essays with personal memories and thoughts in the summer, whenever I feel like it.Some entries are close readings of episodes, others wander off – into personal recollection, cultural history… But all of them belong to the same journey: A journey through Midsomer, as it appears on TV.

 

Alongside the essays, I’m also rewatching the entire series – slowly, and with a particular eye. Certain themes, images and peculiarities are being gathered as I go. This project will take time – most likely well into the second half of 2026 – but the current state of the collection can be followed here.

I’m keeping track of these things:

All Village Fêtes and Local Festivities

All Pubs

Music

Re-Enactments

A List of Public History in Midsomer

Local Historians & Co. in Midsomer Murders

Aesthetic and Bizarre Murders

Gruesome Murders

 

 

🤓 Read more about Midsomer Murders & History

The Chronology of Midsomer County by Year or by EpisodesDeep Dives into Midsomer & HistoryHistory of Midsomer Murders Film Locations

I would like to point out that this is an unofficial fan site. I am not connected to Bentley Productions, ITV or the actors.