History YMMV / DeathInParadise

* TheScrappy: Series 11 introduces Izzy Parker, Neville's sister. Right off the bat, however, she's irritated fans due to being incredibly obnoxious, selfish, and entirely superfluous. She had only been in one episode when fans had took to social media to demand she be gotten rid of. She managed to hang around for most the of that series before she left the island.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/TheMallorcaFiles'' is more or less the daytime version of Death in Paradise, but with British female lead detective teaming up with a male sergeant from Germany to solve crime in Spain instead.

* FirstInstallmentWins: While all part of the same series, despite the later detectives having higher on average ratings, Poole and his team (Camille, Dwayne, and Fidel) are the most iconic and emblematic of the show's original pitch. On Archive Of Our Own, Poole and his team have more fanfiction stories about them than the Humphrey, Mooney, and Parker eras ''combined,'' while showrunner Robert Thorogood has written several novels focusing on cases Poole did.
* FollowTheLeader: Series/TheMallorcaFiles is more or less the daytime version of Death in Paradise, but with British female lead detective teaming up with a male sergeant from Germany to solve crime in Spain instead.

** Season 4's "The Perfect Murder" features Creator/DominiqueTipper, who would become a regular cast member on ''Series/TheExpanse'' as Naomi Nagata, which premiered later the same year.

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: In 4x07, "She Was Murdered Twice", one of the suspects was played by Matthew Lewis (aka Neville Longbottom in the [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]] movies), though they attempt to disguise him - or make him less conventionally attractive - with some atrocious facial hair. You might want to sit down for this next bit. [[spoiler:He confesses 20 minutes in. He shot the victim. Except we know it's too early, so it can't be him. We learn she was already dead, smothered by someone else. Wait, no, ''he'' had already smothered her, and he shot her because he knew he'd only get a few years for attempted murder. For bonus points, it turns out the character is a conman, which means...he's an actor.]]

* IdiotPlot: The entirety of “The Secret of the Flame Tree“ could have been solved in 3 seconds flat if the suspects had told the police that [[spoiler:one of the suspects had left their field of view long enough to kill the victim.]] It’s not even that there was something stopping them from telling the police or [[spoiler:that they had no way of knowing she had left: she was on stage in front of a crowd!]]

* WTHCostumingDepartment: The crossed batons on one of Commissioner Patterson's rank insignia fell off midway through the show's run, but they've never been replaced.

* MemeticMutation: In a similar vein to both Series/InpectorMorse and Series/MidsomerMurders, the sheer amount of murders that take place on a small Caribbean island have become a RunningGag in British pop culture.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In Episode 7 of Season 10 Neville and Florence are told the British Ambassador has complained to Patterson. The problem is that Saint Marie is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a Commonwealth Realm in fact with the Queen as head of state, and in Commonwealth countries, the ambassadors of other Commonwealth countries are called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_commissioner_(Commonwealth) High Commissioners.]]
* FanPreferredPairing: Poole and Camille.

* TheScrappy: Series 11 introduces Izzy Parker, Neville's sister. Right off the bat, however, she's irritated fans due to being incredibly obnoxious, selfish, and entirely superfluous. While she has only been in one episode so far, fans had already taken to social media to demand she be gotten rid of.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In Episode 7 of Season 10 Neville and Florence are told the British Ambassador has complained to Patterson. The problem is that Saint Marie is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a Commonwealth Realm in fact with the Queen as head of state, and in Commonwealth countries the ambassadors of other Commonwealth countries are called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_commissioner_(Commonwealth) High Commissioners.]]

* FirstInstallmentWins: While all part of the same series, despite the later detectives having higher on average ratings, Poole and his team (Camille, Dwayne and Fidel) are the most iconic and emblematic of the show's original pitch. On Archive Of Our Own, Poole and his team have more fanfiction stories about them than the Humphrey, Mooney and Parker eras ''combined,'' while showrunner Robert Thorogood has written several novels focusing on cases Poole did.

* ItWasHisSled: Humphrey's first case being Richard Poole himself, who dies in the third season premiere.
* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: In 4x07, "She Was Murdered Twice", one of the suspects was played by Matthew Lewis (aka Neville Longbottom in the [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]] movies, though they attempt to disguise him - or make him less conventionally attractive - with some atrocious facial hair. You might want to sit down for this next bit. [[spoiler:He confesses 20 minutes in. He shot the victim. Except we know it's to early, so it can't be him. We learn she was already dead, smothered by someone else. Wait, no, ''he'' had already smothered her, and he shot her because he knew he'd only get a few years for attempted murder. For bonus points, it turns out the character is a conman, which means...he's an actor.]]

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: In 4x07, "She Was Murdered Twice", one of the suspects was played by Matthew Lewis (aka Neville Longbottom in the [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter movies]], though they attempt to disguise him - or make him less conventionally attractive - with some atrocious facial hair. You might want to sit down for this next bit. [[spoiler:He confesses 20 minutes in. He shot the victim. Except we know it's to early, so it can't be him. We learn she was already dead, smothered by someone else. Wait, no, ''he'' had already smothered her, and he shot her because he knew he'd only get a few years for attempted murder. For bonus points, it turns out the character is a conman, which means...he's an actor.]]

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: In 4x07, "She Was Murdered Twice", one of the suspects was the guy who played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, though they attempt to disguise him - or make him less conventionally attractive - with some atrocious facial hair. You might want to sit down for this next bit. [[spoiler:He confesses 20 minutes in. He shot the victim. Except we know it's to early, so it can't be him. We learn she was already dead, smothered by someone else. Wait, no, ''he'' had already smothered her, and he shot her because he knew he'd only get a few years for attempted murder. For bonus points, it turns out the character is a conman, which means...he's an actor.]]

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: In 2x07, "She Was Murdered Twice", one of the suspects was the guy who played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, though they attempt to disguise him - or make him less conventionally attractive - with some atrocious facial hair. You might want to sit down for this next bit. [[spoiler:He confesses 20 minutes in. He shot the victim. Except we know it's to early, so it can't be him. We learn she was already dead, smothered by someone else. Wait, no, ''he'' had already smothered her, and he shot her because he knew he'd only get a few years for attempted murder. For bonus points, it turns out the character is a conman, which means...he's an actor.]]

TheScrappy: Series 11 introduces Izzy Parker, Neville's sister. Right off the bat, however, she's irritated fans due to being incredibly obnoxious, selfish, and entirely superfluous. While she has only been in one episode so far, fans had already taken to social media to demand she be gotten rid of.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: The crossed batons on one of Commissioner Patterson's rank insignia fell of midway through the show's run, but they've never been replaced.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In Episode 7 of Season 10 Neville and Florence are told the British Ambassador has complained to Patterson. The problem is that Saint Marie is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a Commonwealth Realm in fact with the Queen as head of state, and in Commonwealth countries the ambassadors of other Commonwealth countries are called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_commissioner_(Commonwealth) High Commissioners ]] .