My Journey through Midsomer
Travel Notes on Beauty, Nostalgia and the Art of Dying Properly
There is a village 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.
The essays are not reviews. Some entries are close readings of episodes, others wander off – into personal recollection, cultural history or quiet irritations. But all of them belong to the same journey:
A journey through Midsomer, as it appears on screen.
The essays themselves will appear gradually from the end of May onwards. Until then, consider this a gateway rather than a library.
What you’ll find here:
My Way In
To Find and Return to Midsomer
Green and Pleasant Land – Where Time Stands Still
(Essay forthcoming. Good things take time – especially in Midsomer.)
Englishness
(Essay forthcoming. Good things take time – especially in Midsomer.)
Cracks in the Façade – The Village Masquerade
(Essay forthcoming. Good things take time – especially in Midsomer.)
Echoes of the Past
(Essay forthcoming. Good things take time – especially in Midsomer.)
‘Oh, it‘s you!‘ – The Art of Dying Properly
(Essay forthcoming. Good things take time – especially in Midsomer.)
In the World of Midsomer Murders
(Essay forthcoming. Good things take time – especially in Midsomer.)
This is not a project about solving mysteries.
It’s about staying with them – long enough to notice what they’re really made of.
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The Chronology of Midsomer County by Year or by Episodes • Deep Dives into Midsomer & History • History 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.