Death in Paradise (TV Series) Murder on the Honore Express (2019) User Reviews

1 Way Ticket

[ygwerin1 · 7/10 · 13 September 2020]

A regular bus journey from the Port entry to Saint Marie and the Capital Honore is seemingly nothing more than that, at its commencement.

But at its conclusion it was anything but, because one of the passengers Paul Raynor was discovered murdered on arrival.

The first question for DI Mooney and his team after looking at all of the surrounding evidence, was exactly how did it occur.

Raynor was sitting alone at the back of the bus and all the other passengers, were spread throughout it. All of them were facing forwards, and the back door catch was damaged and could only be opened from the inside.

Conundrums with no apparent solutions with the Police Commissioner, simply keen for a speedy resolution. As he wanted to be able, to convince the public that the transport was safe.

Florence apparently has a new boyfriend but she appears reticent to own up to it with her colleagues, she is "looking for the right time."

When DI Mooney told the Commissioner that the team were short handed, he assured them that they would be getting a new colleague.

At the end of the day the Commissioner actually announced, the name of the new Officer one Ruby Paterson. When DI Mooney asked if she was any relation, the Commissioner answered in the affirmative.

Do the bus stop

[safenoe · 7/10 · 19 May 2024]

Murder on the Honore Express is the season eight opener, and in this episode Dwayne's replacement still hasn't arrived. I'm enjoying reflecting on Death in Paradise after becoming a fan after it debuted over a decade ago. Rebecca Front, famous for her role in Lewis, guest stars.

As a long-time fan of Death in Paradise, I'm being quite serious here, and maybe I have way too much time on my hands because I do wonder quite seriously really how the Saint Marie police photograph the suspects for their whiteboard propped up in the police station. Really, at the crime scene do they gently ask the suspects to calmly pose for the whiteboard init,

Anyway, really more credit should also be given to the two loyal paramedics who turn up at the crime scene to help out DI and his team. They deserve an imdb profile please.

Stab

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 29 October 2020]

I like the bit where he talks about the budgie smugglers

Episode 8.1

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 11 January 2019]

Paul Raynor has been released from prison and arrives in Honore. He takes the Express bus and seems to be in a hurry to reach his destination.

When the bus arrives, Raynor is found stabbed to death. DI Jack Mooney finds that the other passengers in the bus all had reason to kill Raynor.

The question for Rooney is how did Raynor die when none of the passengers left the seat.

An enjoyable episode with a few flaws. I had fair idea who the culprit was and there were a few holes in the story. For example there would be a lot of blood in the culprit in such a stabbing incident.

I did not notice Dwayne's absence and the story was intriguing enough.

Murder on the Honore Express

[studioAT · 6/10 · 9 July 2020]

Series 8 of the show kicks off with an intriguing case.

I agree with a previous review - a talented array of guest actors are wasted, not doing very much at all.

The absence of Dwayne is not a big deal for me, the opposite in fact. I found his customary 'comedy' subplot in episodes unfunny and felt the character had long since run its course.

It was nice instead to have a bit of actual character development for Florence.

Good overall.

Just an okay episode

[wjspears · 5/10 · 19 September 2021]

This was not a very well written or constructed mystery. In their effort to create a "Locked Room" bus mystery, the number of implausibles is hard to overlook.

While the knife used to kill the victim is not the same one that Fiona Tait throws into the ocean, it still begs the question, how did Fiona leave the murder scene with a knife in her bag to later throw into the ocean? Did the police not search each of the other three people on the bus, where the impossible murder happened?

A reviewer mentions that blood would have gotten on the killer when he stabbed the victim. Also, how likely is it that you could stab someone on a motionless bus and not make any noise, or not have the victim make any noise?

The biggest implausible though, it seems to me is why would the killer choose that risky moment to murder his victim? The victim is getting off the bus. The killer could have all kinds of time and scenarios for carrying out the murder?

The other implausible that had me scratching my head a bit, was why the writers were having Florence keep her boyfriend such a secret? Maybe we will get a reason in weeks to come.

But for now it just seems out of character to who Florence has been thus far, especially as she was encouraging openness from DI Humphrey Goodman, and now DI Jack Mooney.

Peripheral vision is clearly not a thing in this universe

[prolifik5 · 3/10 · 31 March 2022]

Admittedly this isn't a new phenomenon on this show (s06e08 and s07e01 being the most recent prior examples) but the convenient lack of peripheral vision in this show can be pretty hilarious at times.

The murder in this case is committed while four people are leaving a bus, and yet no-one notices the emergency door at the back opening and someone being stabbed? Maybe if a couple dozen people were streaming out this could be vaguely plausible, but the movement would have caught at least one person's eye on a nearly empty bus. Of course, the murderer is also aided by another DiP staple: the stab victim who dies quickly and silently with minimal blood splatter.

I actually remembered the who and the how of this one very early on, but was wondering if they had found a way to make that solution somewhat believable. They... did not.

On another note, this marks the end of my rewatch as I realise the horrendous Ruby was introduced in this episode. Yikes.

A poor start to the new series.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 5/10 · 11 January 2019]

Death in Paradise returned, to bring a bit of sunshine into our homes, much needed during the dark winter months. I was impressed by the last series, I liked Ardal, the bug question, how would it be without the long serving Danny Jules.

Robert James Collier, Rebecca Front and Andrew Tiernan, all very talented actors appeared.... but sadly, each were underused, in what turned out to be a disappointing debut to series eight.

In all honesty I didn't notice Duane's absence, I hope his replacement adds something to the show.

If I had one word to sum up this episode, it would have to be childish, the show has always been light hearted, but the balance between drama and slapstick was totally off, this was a show that should have been on for a lunchtime audience, why not switch it with Father Brown, and give that the prime time slot?

The plot was borrowed from a well known Murder she wrote episode, called Murder on the Bus, and overall it had the feel of a visit to Cabot Cove.

Sorry, but I thought this was pretty poor. 5/10

Unimpressive indeed!

[harrykivi · 5/10 · 11 August 2020]

"Death in Paradise" has become one of my favorite shows in the last couple of months. When Ben Miller, Danny-John Jules and Sara Martins were around, the series was at its best. Not to say that Kris Marshall was a boring main detective, but it took time for me to realize what Marshall was doing with the character.

If talking about the past two seasons, Ardal O'Hanlon, Tobi Bakare and Josephine Jobert have been very likable additions to the show, but the scripts do not seem to be as good as they once were. Yes, there are pretty good episodes, but I haven't seen a great one in a long time. Having not so good of a script is unfortunately the case with "Murder on the Honore Express". It's not a bad "Death in Paradise", but a really unimpressive start to the 8th season.

But let's start with good.

. The production values are great as usual. The direction's gorgeous and the music fits the scenery. The actors do the best they can with the given material.

. There are moments of charm, intrigue here and jokes usually land as well.

But...

. The murder mystery is not very compelling with little surprises and too obvious clues ( like the tape ).

. Good actors like Rebecca Front have got very little screen time and their characters were not as fleshed out as they could have been.

. Also, the solution (Harold's guilty) was very easy to figure out and there are plotholes in the story (for instance: how the knife that was thrown into the ocean got into the hands of a killer.)

Overall, a pretty flawed watch.

5/10 HK

Paradise lost

[bartzronald · 2/10 · 29 June 2019]

With season eight this series has become once and for all a terrible caricature of itself. Where's the fine and hidden english humor of season one and two? What's happened to the sensitive personal relations inside the team? All this had been already lost from the middle of season four. Now there are only boredom and pain - and a living and extremely annoying cartoon figure named Ruby! Goodbye cruel paradise it's over ...