7.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
While everyone at the Toronto Constabulary's Station House No. 4 prepares to celebrate Christmas, they must also solve a puzzling murder with a Yuletide theme.
Starring: Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris, Mouna TraoréMystery | 100% |
Period | 52% |
Crime | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
It only took nine seasons for Murdoch Mysteries to hop on the Christmas special bandwagon. A Merry Murdoch Christmas aired on Canada's CBC network on December 20, 2015, during Season Nine's mid-season hiatus. Running twice the length of a standard Murdoch episode, MMC was conceived as a standalone entry, which explains why Acorn Media is releasing it separately from the eighteen-episode collection of Season Nine.
A Merry Murdoch Christmas was captured on Alexa by series regular Jim Jeffrey and is presented by Acorn on a 1080p, AVC-encoded BD-25 that ranks with the best of Murdoch Mysteries's Blu-ray presentations. The detailed and richly colored image is particularly well suited to the extensive snowfall and holiday decorations that mark this episode of Murdoch as a Christmas special. The average bitrate of 23.55 Mbps is at the high end for Murdoch.
Even with Krampus in the picture, Merry Murdoch Christmas' DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack doesn't depart from the series' typically modest mix. Robert Carli's scoring invokes traditional holiday melodies, but otherwise this episode of Murdoch sounds very much like all the others.
Given Murdoch's popularity, it's surprising that the show's creative team waited this long to
design their own Christmas special. Fans of the show will want to add it to their collection,
although you might want to postpone watching it until December to replicate the experience of
the initial broadcast.
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