Midsomer Murders: Master Class (2010)
Season 13, Episode 5
6/10
Medically and theologically speaking....
19 April 2023
I do so hate it when the details aren't right. As a person with porphyria I can say that heme arginate wouldn't be stored in a bottle on a shelf, "ready to ingest" as it were. It's an intravenous medication. Always. It was never anything else. (Doc Martin got their facts wrong too.) Theologically, that was no Catholic church, and no religious sister would assist at communion, though I suppose Barnaby can be excused for not catching that one because she needed the DNA? Oh except even the most basic DNA test requires about a spoonful of saliva. How do I know? From my genetic testing to determine what type of porphyria I have. The implication yet again is that porphyria is a disease caused by inbreeding. In reality it's totally random.

Three strikes means "you're out" in American baseball, and as soon as I saw the pub owner wearing sunglasses indoors, I knew the entire plot. That's a symptom of untreated porphyria.

So very disappointing.
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