7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
A Touch of Frost (1992)
A Touch of Frost (1992)
Overview
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Trans: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.7
Overview
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
A Touch of Frost is a traditional police procedural focused on solving individual crimes and the character of a dedicated detective. Its apolitical nature and emphasis on individual accountability for criminal acts, rather than promoting specific ideological solutions or systemic critiques, firmly place it in the neutral category.
The movie, a classic British police drama, features traditional casting with a predominantly white ensemble, consistent with its production era and setting. Its narrative focuses on conventional crime-solving without critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its plot.
Secondary
A Touch of Frost features occasional LGBTQ+ characters, primarily in isolated crime plots where their identity is a factor. The show condemns prejudice and violence, but these portrayals are incidental, lacking deep exploration or sustained positive or negative arcs. The net impact is neutral, as queer identity is present but neither uplifted nor denigrated holistically.
The show features a transsexual character whose identity is central to her role as a victim of a hate crime. While the protagonist shows some respect, the narrative largely frames her trans identity as a source of vulnerability, danger, and misery, without a strong counter-balance that affirms her life or agency beyond her suffering.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The show "A Touch of Frost" is a direct adaptation of R.D. Wingfield's novels. All major characters, including Detective Inspector Jack Frost, maintain the same gender as established in the original source material. There are no instances of characters canonically established as one gender being portrayed as a different gender on screen.
As an original television series, "A Touch of Frost" created its characters without prior canonical or historical racial depictions. Therefore, no character could have been race-swapped from pre-existing source material.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.9
7.5
Critic Ratings
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