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Death in Paradise Christmas Special review: Obscenely escapist holiday viewing with some completely nonsensical plotlines

Source: BBC/Red Planet/Denis Guyeon

 is the kind of telly you can just keep one eye on while undertaking any other task perfectly competently, up to and including eye surgery. So the BBC One show is , because most of us surely don’t have the time to spend slumped semi-comatose in front of the TV (a dying art in any case) for the full 90 minutes, paying complete attention to the potential forensic lines of a homicide inquiry; and for those who do

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