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maladroit

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  1. I'm late to this discussion of PBS cuts, but wanted to note that, years ago, in frustration, I bought a region-free DVD player and purchased any Brit series I cared to own from Amazon UK. The player itself wasn't that expensive, but all those DVDs added up. Still, I'm happy to own the complete Morse and Lewis series--every snarky remark and touching scene intact.
  2. Haha. The shirt (and Hathaway's "Lewis" sign) were nice callbacks to the pilot. They were among the few touches I enjoyed in this episode. Still, I'm grateful this was a quiet close rather than a melodrama with main character deaths and such.
  3. I agree that (while this was a verrrrrry slight improvement on the last two episodes) it was a disappointingly flat series finale. I will only add: good choice, Lewis, of the dodo babywear. These shirts and other goodies can indeed be purchased from the OUP shop, where, some years ago, I scored my Oxford dodo tea mug. http://www.oushop.com/Clothing/Childrenswear/Babywear Hope this doesn't come off as an advertisement for the Museum shop, but I suspect that if any group of people might covet the dodo tea towels, this select set of commentators counts.
  4. She was the young woman who worked at the Oxfam-esque agency. (Sorry, can't remember the Morse-code version of Oxfam).
  5. I'm glad I'm not alone in being amused by the references to "The Graduate"! This episode certainly filled its quota of '60s-era allusions, with two (count 'em) to George Harrison himself. It also introduced Endeavour to Marion Brooke, who will figure prominently in the 1990 Morse episode "Masonic Mysteries."
  6. For those following the Endeavour/Morse connections: Farnleigh Open Prison will be the setting of "Absolute Conviction," and Inspector McNutt will turn up in "Masonic Mysteries." (Yes, using future tense to describe TV episodes from the early '90s!). Still, for all these clever allusions to the original Morse series, this last episode seemed to take place in a different (and much darker) universe. It's hard to believe this series of violent and traumatic events--including Endeavour's (we assume) brief incarceration--wouldn't still lurk in Thames Valley memory twenty years or so later. (Especially in the episode where a cunning mastermind tries to frame Morse for murder). From "Neverland" on, I'm going to have to view "Endeavour" Oxford as a world distinct from "Morse" Oxford. "Neverland" was interesting for giving us more of the seamy underbelly of poor and industrial Oxford (abandoned trailers, slums, etc.); at the same time, that choice gave the episode more the flavor of current British police series than the original "Morse." Or so it seems to me. It's certainly a far cry from the cloud-cuckoo land of "Inspector Lewis."
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