Reader, I hope you’re enjoying being back in Victorian London with our detective pals as much as I am. I regret to inform you, however, that at least one person is having a terrible time, and that person is Barney the Morgue Bureaucrat. Not only is his walk to work getting interrupted by a bunch of children, but he’s also being chased down the street by Victoria Mars, who’s asking for background information on one of his corpses. A protocol breach? And an annoyance? Sounds like any other episode, except this time, Victoria Mars tries to play the Ivy card.
Shippers, get ready for whiplash: this episode starts with our dashing detective duo, dressed in their finest, entering an extremely swanky establishment for dinner. “Oooh,” I hear you think: “a proper date! Finally!” But alas, they’re actually only undercover as a doctor and his wife. Why? We’re going to have to wait to find out, and in the meantime, this happens:Duke Silver, to the waiter: Get me this wine, and the lady will have sherry.
Miss Scarlet & The Duke Episode 5 Recap: 99 Problems
Bernard Walsh
Every season, the Drama After Dark team gathers ‘round the (currently virtual) conference room table to watch the latest and greatest in British dramas. This month, our colleagues at MASTERPIECE delivered a deluge of new dramas, including Miss Scarlet & The Duke
, a feminist detective series set in Victorian London. I’m here to recap all the mysteries (and the romance) of the season as it happens (and we’re also covering the show on Drama After Dark)
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Your boss passed you over for a promotion. In retaliation, you basically made the newspaper print the Marvel Comics version of your lady friend doing your job for you. And now you have to meet with that boss first thing in the morning to share unsatisfactory job performance statistics?