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The episodes are different lengths (40-45 minutes for Miss S, an hour for Miss Fisher), so it works out to about twenty minutes more of total storytelling time per mystery, which is just enough time to give a character of the week a bit more depth OR to build more absurd pit traps into your murderer's secret tomb, depending on what your plot is this week. And both do help the overall narrative, I think!

okay so the things that do not work about the Miss Fisher movie:

- just a complete and total embrace of ye olde White People Have Exotic Adventures In the Desert mode
- none of the regular cast is there except Jack (and her aunt for a bit), which is slightly awkward given that the plot kicks off with Alas, Phryne Is Dead And Here's Her Memorial Service and it's being hosted by some episode-of-the-week randos with neither her parents nor her adopted daughter present
- Miss Fisher's just-for-the-movie sidekick gets nothing to do except be a plot device
- the Jack-and-Phryne dynamic of the film is built around Bickering over Misunderstandings (she didn't pretend to be dead on purpose but she Did lavender marry a maharajah and Jack is Very peeved about it) which is intended to get them to the point of full romantic reconciliation but given that their dynamic in the show is so much an intense & unusual slow-burn about the way in which they do understand each other, collapsing back into a much more generic-feeling Bickering Sexual Tension feels very unsatisfying! to me! even if he does have to rescue her from quicksand, shirtless!

the things that do work about the Miss Fisher movie:
- okay these are mostly actually just things I think are very funny about the Miss Fisher movie
- this isn't actually a 'thing that works' I just think it's SO funny when they're all hanging out IN A TOMB for the big finale and suddenly THE MURDERER IS AMONG US NOW. how did he get here?? from England??? WHO could say that's NOT the point
- Alexander The Great's Mummified Bride, Preserved In Honey is also a very very funny plot device
- real shout outs to Jack's actor who's doing some truly incredible face acting during the Miss Fisher's Fake Funeral scene, that one absolutely did hit