TV show watching: Rosemary & Thyme

waxjism: This show's a bit rubbish, isn't it?
me: Yeah, but no worse than Nancy Drew. Better written, actually. And better than some crime tv I've watched. And hey, at least it's dumb with two middle-aged lady protagonists instead of just a bunch of dudes.

Rosemary & Thyme has 3 seasons, starting in 2003. We've watched two so far. It stars Pam Ferris (Smithy's mum from Gavin & Stacey, Aunt Marge from Harry Potter) and Felicity Kendal as landscaping botanists who keep stumbling over murder mysteries and then shamelessly snooping. A lot. So far I've seen tons of Hey It's That Guys, most excitingly Graham McTavish as a boastful police officer in 103. Apparently this is a staple Cosy Mystery, which one can't really argue with, but the likeness to Nancy Drew is at times uncanny and it's definitely more Carolyn Keene than Agatha Christie.