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Has Anyone Followed the Inspector Morse Series? Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour? Thoughts?
chickensoup's very small brain | 10.06.22 | chicken the soup

Posted on 10/06/2022 1:37:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup

Has Anyone Followed the Inspector Morse Series? Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour? Thoughts?

I have been overwhelmed with the series. to the point that I have purchased the DVDS. I have never felt television to fit. this fits.

your take?


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To: Chickensoup

My favorite Brit mystery series is Foyle’s War.

It is about a small town Brit Cop in pre WW2 and WW2.

My maternal Grandfather was a Brit descendent and looked enough like Foyle to be a twin.

We have a few Brit Friends in our age group, and they were in the UK during the War. They love this series.

The shows after WW2 were often a hard stretch to be as realistic as his/Foyle’s first series.


61 posted on 10/06/2022 2:26:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Fury
Endeavour = 100%! And 2022 is the last season.

Noooo!

62 posted on 10/06/2022 2:26:41 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Moonmad27

How fortunate you are. A Morse Tour! I have just become aware of Fox’s political work, he has been subbing for Nigel Farage at GBNEWs


63 posted on 10/06/2022 2:26:55 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Fury

I know.

altogether there are about 99 episodes. That is almost a half year of television for me. So good!


64 posted on 10/06/2022 2:27:57 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Chickensoup

I watched the original Morse series, mainly for John Thaw. The show was a huge hit. Thaw also acted in several other popular British serials, including Kavanaugh QC and The Sweeney. He died some years ago of esophageal cancer — he was a very heavy smoker. When you watch your Morse CDs, watch for brief cameos by the author of the original Morse books, Colin Dexter.


65 posted on 10/06/2022 2:28:42 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: mware

Might want to check out Father Brown/

Another great series.


66 posted on 10/06/2022 2:28:53 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: EverRight

It took me a while to get involved in Lewis. But he became a figure of process, tragedy, and eventual overcoming. And he did not lose his essential self.


67 posted on 10/06/2022 2:29:45 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Daffynition

The final season of Doc Martin is starting.


68 posted on 10/06/2022 2:29:46 PM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: bk1000

Did 19 back a few years ago. enjoyed it.


69 posted on 10/06/2022 2:30:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Liberty Valance

Foyles War I have enjoyed, twice which says a lot. The London season left me cold though.


70 posted on 10/06/2022 2:31:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: ought-six

true. There is much more to their characters.


71 posted on 10/06/2022 2:31:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Cobra64

I am buying them all on DVD for this is one of the few that I am going to re-watch on my own time.


72 posted on 10/06/2022 2:33:29 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Doulos1

Marple and Poriot were delightful.

Enjoyed Poriot and enjoyed how it ended.

The brits tell the story until it is done.

Then it is done.


73 posted on 10/06/2022 2:34:56 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: marron
"I don’t know why, but I generally like them much better than the American cop shows."

Same here. I rarely watch any American cop/detective series. I think Longmire was the last one I viewed. Followed it from A&E to Netflix. Recently I viewed "Dark Winds," an AMC series via streaming. The series is based on Navajo police characters Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, and Deputy Jim Chee from Tony Hillerman's book series which exclusively features the two men. I read all the books until Hillerman passed, then tried reading his daughter's continuation of the series, but I didn't care for them. The TV series wasn't bad, but if you read any the books, you'd know they tweaked the main characters, along with their family lives, native-american beliefs, among other things. PBS did a series of three movies in 2002, featuring the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee characters. Wes Studi played Joe Leaphorn, and Adam Beach played Jim Chee. The movies were more in line with the books. In the new TV series, they have Zahn McClarnon playing Leaphorn, and Kiowa Gordon as Chee. McClarnon is a familiar face from the Longmire series, and Reservation Dogs (Hulu). McClaron played a cop is both of those series. The Dark Winds series has been picked up for a second season.

74 posted on 10/06/2022 2:35:27 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Seruzawa

I tend to watch the shows from the 80s and 90s that forgo some of that claptrap.

and the period dramas.


75 posted on 10/06/2022 2:35:57 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I enjoyed the show, I didn’t like him but I enjoyed him, and who he became.

The relationship between him and Lewis and Lewis’s basic decency were an education of it’s own.


76 posted on 10/06/2022 2:38:00 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Chickensoup

Not a bad series. It did raise a question in my mind that it never answered: What exactly was Morse’ problem? Why so irascible?


77 posted on 10/06/2022 2:38:30 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TomGuy

Thank you!


78 posted on 10/06/2022 2:38:30 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: bk1000
"Watched one episode of Lewis and may give it another shot."

Laurance Fox who plays DS James Hathaway in Inspector Lewis recently portrayed Hunter Biden in "My Son Hunter."

79 posted on 10/06/2022 2:39:19 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Chickensoup
I love Lewis, DCI Banks, Foyle's War, and Midsomer Murders. I loved Wallander. And if you want something more whimsical, try Death in Paradise.
80 posted on 10/06/2022 2:39:47 PM PDT by Lysandru
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