A sombre episode seems out of place.
Shown for the first time
directly after a frothy documentary looking at the show’s twenty fifth
anniversary, `The Scarecrow Murders` is an atypical episode and a little tame. Back in the day a
title like that would probably involve a killer dressing up as a scarecrow and
some suitably scary sequences. The name is something of a red herring even though
events take place during a scarecrow festival. While the victims are left
amongst the displays with a bit of straw adorning them the episode is actually about
more serious issues. Curiously the location is simply referred to as Midsomer despite
the documentary making a point that it’s a fictional county rather than a
village. Perhaps they’ve run out of names.
Spoiler- The episode isn't as great as this picture makes it seem!
