I love Ben Miller. My first exposure to him was Death in Paradise, and I love rewatching it. I also loved his character in Doc Martin. When I learned he had a PBS series, I had to watch it.
Jasper Tempest is a criminology professor at Cambridge. When a crime is committed on campus, one of his former students gets him to help solve the crime (eventually). Jasper has OCD and few social skills. From that point on, he becomes more involved with the team, and they come to rely on him more. Well, some of them are more accepting than others.
In some ways, this reminds me a bit of the show Monk, starring Tony Shalhoub. Professor T isn't quite the same for a number of reasons. The main one is the tone. There are moments of levity in this, but for the most part, it's pure drama. You're not laughing about much in this. And while Jasper has OCD, it's not so prominent that it's almost a character like it is in Monk. And while Monk was timid and slow to act, Jasper will put himself into the middle of situations (to the dismay of others!).
I really liked this show. The little daydreams Jasper had were a bit weird at first, but I got used to them. As usual, Ben Miller makes the show for me. I was happy to see Juliet Aubrey. She's also one of my favorites to see pop up here and there in shows and movies. The cases are all one episode, so I didn't have to watch the whole season to solve a mystery. For some reason, that's what I was hoping for. I do just want to say, I felt bad for Dan, and he was treated pretty poorly by Donckers.
There's more seasons of this, and I'm going to be tracking them down. Good Show!
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