Father Brown (TV Series) The Eagle and The Daw (2017) User Reviews

The Eagle and the Daw

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 23 January 2017]

This one looks like a Sherlock Holmes type mystery. Even one for Jonathan Creek. I dare say Creek did deal with a similar problem.

Father Brown is summoned by prisoner Katherine Corven who was convicted of killing her husband thanks to Father Brown and she has a grudge to bear. Father Brown thinks she is wiling to repent for her sins.

Corven tells Father Brown that is planning to murder her lover Raymond Worrall. He cannot tell anybody because of the seal of the confession. When he goes to see the Worrall he is found shot dead and Father Brown was seen holding a gun and is arrested for murder.

Bunty and Mrs McCarthy now need to prove Father Brown's innocence and Sergeant Goodfellow has to help out by breaking him out of the police cell.

Corven is a nasty one and this one is a fiendish 'howdunnit.'

Ok enough!

[bomiranda2 · 7/10 · 22 December 2021]

I love Father Brown but each police chief gets worse and worse their stupidity is annoying and ruins the show! Do they have to be THAT stupid! Bring back Lady Felicia and bring back Sid!

Father Brown takes on the Black Widow

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 5 March 2018]

Father Brown faces the consequences of helping put a callous, calculating killer behind bars. The Black Widow, Catherine Corven, having killed her husband, now plans the death of her current lover Raymond Warrell, and to implicate Father Brown in his death.

There is real quality in this episode, it has all the quality and feel of the early episodes, it's more serious in tone then many recent offerings, and is all the better for it. Even the awful Inspector Mallory didn't detract from my enjoyment, Jack Deam has definitely been guilty of overacting. Catherine Corven makes a fantastic adversary, again better then many recent characters, she was downright nasty.

A very original episode, the format was fresh and unique, dare I say the writing is vastly improved. Father Brown finally incarcerated, many have tried, Mallory succeed. A very stylish episode, very good indeed.

Black widow strikes again!!

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 23 July 2022]

The woman known as the black widow is up to her tricks again. Father Brown finds himself blamed for the murder after an old foe tells him that she has arranged the death of her former lover. Fairly enjoyable episode with Bunty and Mrs McCarthy doing more investigation while father brown resides in jail.

RE SHERLOCK HOLMES

[andrew-350-797610 · 19 January 2018]

The previous reviewer writes, 'This one looks like a Sherlock Holmes type mystery' and quite rightly describes the solution as 'a fiendish howdunnit'. In point of fact, the solution to the mystery is remarkably akin to that of the Holmes short story 'The Problem of Thor Bridge'. This tale (perhaps the best of those Holmes stories published after World War One) also features an attempt to frame a character (in this case, a love rival) for murder when in fact the cause of death is suicide. The perpetrator in the Holmes story also plots for the potential victim of the frame-up to be incriminated by arranging a meeting with her at the spot where the body is later found. A handgun (with the help of a cord and counterweight) is caused to 'disappear' (in this instance into the river which flows beneath Thor Bridge) as opposed to up a chimney as in this very good Father Brown story.

Corven v Brown

[safenoe · 7/10 · 27 September 2023]

Katherine Corven is a deliciously subtle criminal who's on death row for the murder of her husband, and she puts Father Brown in a bind through a death row confessional.

Still, I'm not entirely sure (and please can one of the reviewers explain this in an addendum to their review) why Raymond Worrall would take his own life at the manipulative behest of Katherine Corven, and I wondered if I missed it that Raymond was terminally ill or something like that, but I'm still kind of befuddled.

Good to see Sergeant Goodfellow come into his own and be an unofficial part of the Scooby Gang to help out Father Brown.