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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9859731" data-attributes="member: 78087">Ms Ma, Nemesis (Viki, 2018)This is a bit of a departure from what I've reviewed so far, in that it's not a high-production-value Netflix-style series. It's also got a slightly weird format, of 32 half-hour episodes, apparently to fit in more adverts when it was aired.This series, as I noted above, was recommended by Donovan Kemper, who does the All About Agatha podcast, which is about all things Agatha Christie. Because Ms Ma is based on half a dozen Miss Marple novels - Nemesis (not surprisingly) but also The Moving Finger, The Mirror Cracked, A Murder is Announced, The Body in the Library, and (sort of) At Bertram's Hotel.<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Ms._Ma%2C_Nemesis.jpg" alt="en.wikipedia.org" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Our initially nameless protagonist is a woman who was jailed and then institutionalised for brutally murdering her young daughter. Nine years later, she inexplicably escapes and finds her way to a rural village (Rainbow Town) near the city of Daejeon. There she takes the identity of Ma Ji-Won, a writer of mystery novels, and collects an eclectic cast of NPCs including a fake niece, an ex-mobster (who has maxed out combat skills for no obvious reason), the two local police officers, and several women who volunteer at the library. There she tries to solve the mystery of who murdered her daughter and framed her, all the while having to solve murders which keep on happening in her village. Seriously, it's worse than Midsomer (or Cabot Cove).It's a well-written and plotted series, partly because it uses the Marple plots well (though it runs through two of them very quickly indeed - Ms Ma just glances at the crime scene and then explains the plot perfunctorily) and partly because it weaves them well into the main storyline. There are a couple of places where you just wish the characters would just TALK TO EACH OTHER but those are few and far between.</blockquote>

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