Wednesday 20 February 2019

Endeavour - Series 1 (2013 Creator / writer Russell Lewis)

Girl (director Edward Bazalgette) introduces us to C.S. Bright, who is not going to accept any 'Spanish practices'* and does not take well to Morse at all. Sophie Stuckey (the 'girl'), Jonathan Hyde, Fiona Ryan, Olivia Grant. Morse helps epileptic girl get child back - looking out for the underdog.


Fugue (director Tom Vaughan). Introduced finally to the Thursdays - Joan (Sara Vickers), Win (Caroline O'Neill) and Sam (Jack Bannon). Someone seems to be targeting Morse in particular. The one where the former code-breaker vicar leaves a clue in the hymn list!

Rocket (director Craig Viveiros). Craig Parkinson is involved in murder at missile factory (former Janssen-Cilag building in Saunderton). Jenny Seagrove is commanding as matriarch, Martin Jarvis not so convincing, Rosalind Halstead, James Northcote, William Houston. The Homewood is that interesting 1930s modernist house.

Home (d. Colm McCarthy). We meet Morse's sister and father (for the only time?) Gangsters from Thursday's past (Clive Wood and Nick Court) threaten his family. There's a wonderful focus on guns: starts out with Morse on firing range, then Win catches Thursday with one, then there's a Mexican stand-off, but the guns don't get into play until the very ending, when Morse is shot...

* Yes, had to look this up. Irregular practices which are in workers' interests, emanating from Elizabethan age (Roman Catholic, deceitful, treacherous).

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