The Shami Kebab Diablo is an incredibly spicy and totally indigestible kebab, invented by Dave Lister of Red Dwarf. To quote: "It's delicious, Kryten. De-smegging-licious. It's me own recipe, you know. Shami Kebab Diablo. It's beautiful, man, it's like eating molten lava! I cooked one once for Peterson, you know. He was in sick bay for a week, what a weed!"
The digestibility of Mrs Sidhu has to be compared very closely with that of the Shami Kebab Diablo, and I think Lister's creation would win.
They tried hard, but it was a random scattering of pretty unlikeable dimwit characters rushing in all directions, while the eponymous Indian chef lady just kept right on feeding them.
Yes, there was a murder plot somewhere in amongst it all, and we all knew that Mrs S would unravel it in the end, now didn't we?
It would have actually been improved had Kryten himself made an appearance, perhaps as the son of Mrs S, ready and waiting to take over all the cooking and cleaning while she did her detecting.
It felt slightly like the genre of 'McDonald and Dodds', or even 'Shakespeare and Hathaway', but without the cleverness. It simply fell so flat.
Let's be generous for all the cooking, and give it 4/10, OK?