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Yes to everything already said. Dude, that's Monica. You know her. At least act like you've seen her somewhere before. (Or did you get amnesia from that blow on the head?) And the baby THAT SHOWED UP OUT OF THE BLUE and was then passed around as if it belonged there until kidnapper drinks poison...People, you'll have to give the little fella back and you won't know where he goes if you don't ask the right questions before baby stealing hippie girl drinks poison. (Did she just hang around the grocery store waiting for a loose baby?) Pretty sure I preferred last week's Gatsby to this week's Graduate. I watched episode 1 again and it really came together for me but I don't know about this one. Was Verity the cash stealing Morse-head-hitter? This episode strained my willing suspension of disbelief but I still love the show. I came of age in the late 60's. Peace, love, and communes indeed. And I did enjoy Bright getting all cozy and flirty and eventually incomprehensible with pretty but intelligent police constable woman.

Really, really enjoy this series (but will have to rewatch this particular episode because as a northeastern Ohio resident, I was "really, really" enjoying the NBA series, too, and flipping back and forth and so lost some of the twins story) Usually I think that "twins' being the answer to the mystery is a lazy way out but believe I'd forgive this series almost anything. It's SO '60's! Whenever I watch Endeavour I find myself mentally juxtaposing this clear-eyed young copper against John Thaw and his world weary Morse, trying to find the latter in the former. Have read all the Morse books, too, so the whole crew of characters, even Strange, have occupied my thoughts for 3 decades or so. Nice to see so many iterations of these old friends

Hard to find bright spots in that episode, either cinematic or emotional. Maybe Linda saying that she"chooses" to care for her dad or W telling his sil that the sil doesn't need W's advice about being a father & both of them softening toward the other. I appreciated W's (weak) attempt at humor about his illness: that he'd be happy to forget the girl setting herself ablaze in a field (I'm with him on that...quite a shocking start to an episode, that and the murdered swans...gosh, those were so dreadful occurrences but without being gruesome. Very Wallander) The mystery was really the subplot but liked that throwback to 30 years ago and all the gray areas there were to spy-hood then. I THOUGHT I paid continuous and close attention throughout but must have lapsed. What was the back story to the brain damaged daughter and what did she add to either plot line? (Or was she harbinger to W's future...? Don't much care for that idea) Also did not find much (read: any) comfort in the closing line from his phantom painter father: "Someone else will remember for you." Kudos to KB for his portrayal and to the actor playing Linda. Her face when he was careening about the field and cried at her "Are you my daughter?" was incredibly moving. Will miss this show with its langorous, lingering camera work and all the convoluted plots and often confusing characters.

I was going with the idea that the initial attack did happen because didn't the doc tell W not to worry because W had a stressful job and he recently got beat up (& something else...was remembering his father maybe?) & not to worry because he was only 55? Although why W didn't say something to authorities beats me. Maybe he fell and hurt himself and then imagined the beating? He certainly had bruises. O fauntleroy, you've got me hoping for a brain tumor...which is really a contradiction in terms!... because I don't think I can handle watching KW lost to Alzheimer's. I too find Branagh's portrayal excellent, just the right mix of personal terror and struggle for normalcy and dread and avoidance of the obvious. And thanks to FoundTime for the reminder of Hannah's burning caravan. I think I made a quick trip to the kitchen and missed that part entirely. I should know better.

Vomit and boils and beetles, o my! Guess I'm in the minority here but unless you're a middle-school-age boy, I thought that episode was awful. I want to like this show; historicals are my favorite and I know it's not Masterpiece so I'm prepared to cut a LOT of slack. But there's not enough slack in the world to make me enjoy that episode. A heartfelt plea to the writers: please spend more time on plot and less on gratuitous special effects.

So relentlessly bleak, landscape, skin colors, crimes... which I suppose is why I like W so much. Watched all the seasons and of course, KW fears Alzheimer's because his dad had it and painted the same scene over and over. ( interesting to see he gave one as a bday gift, which will help dwindle the supply.) Could have done w/o the girlfriend but was touched nevertheless when he mouthed 'I love you.' Wasn't there a hooded figure walking away from the fire? So not an accident he caused? Actually I like the ambiguity of it all. Wasn't sure if he knew that hitchhiker was Hannah or not. Have some acquaintance with Early-Onset Alzheimer's and think the mind really does begin to lapse like that, tho less of "Where did I put my gun?" & more of "What is a gun?" Well, perhaps he will be diagnosed with something entirely different. Will watch it to the end and hope for something a touch better than "relentlessly bleak."

Ah, Cathy. A small bright spot in a universally unpleasant episode. You loving/understanding your husband & Mrs. M defending Sydney to the parish were bearable moments. Otherwise, please put Amanda, Margaret, Sydney, Geordie & Geordie's duplicitous police underling (Name? Phil?) in a large barrel and roll it downhill. Leonard gets a bye on the barrel because he was faithful to his calling, remembering his Sunday duties at personal sacrifice. (You're way better than your companion, L, a man that says he already has plenty of friends & doesn't need any more. Really? Lucky man, then~) On the witness stand S blurts out something G shared with him privately & then later G pulls out a sensitive memory S shared with him & tosses it into the conversation like a grenade. Guys, go look up 'friendship' in your Webster's. The mystery du jour, such as it was, seemed negligible to the episode. Truly, I think I'm done for the season.

O, Leonard, you make me happy. "And I've never felt more alive!" Reservations for 3 was a nice touch (although for 4 to include Dickens would have been even nicer...a nice low basket to the side so the 3 humans could drop treats now and then - perfect) If Geordie makes anything more than eye contact with Margaret I'm done with the whole Grantchester cast. Bad enough that the shoplifting socialite and boozey vicar make goo goo eyes but someone has to stand up for Cathy. And yes, I understand about S's antipathy for the death penalty, but Gary did kill someone and death by turpentine could not have been pleasant. My sympathy factor is dropping with each episode. Please move on, writers, with a new mystery (I did like this week's whodunit tho - shades of Rebecca) and more sleuthing. I have Miss Marple tastes, I'm afraid, & the upcoming final season of Wallender looks like it will provide all the angst I can handle.

Yes, yes, and yes to just about every comment made about Sydney and the phone (... clunk...out like a light ... ) call in the widow's hallway. Good grief. But Sydney has become secondary for me because I really don't like him much this year (shirted or shirtless); I like Geordie of the shaking hands so much more! And I absolutely love his wife (she must have a name & I must have heard it but it left no lasting impression.) "I love you but I love my sleep more." There's just something about that marriage that makes me happy. What do we make of Geordie's hesitation on the landing of the stairs when S calls out? Still ptsd, eh?

I know I'm in the minority, but I was rooting for Guy. Smack that vicar! Sidney is a spiritual leader in his community and an intelligent person. No way should his married ex girlfriend be spending so much time with him. But Geordie, do NOT smack a woman, who didn't seem all that hysterical to me. I actually gasped at that. Better episode than last week, I agree. I'll suspend disbelief when it comes to the plot (really? The local parson gets to be part of an official police investigation?) because I want to. More clues to Geordie: Burma. Husbands protect wives. (Enjoyed Geordie and wife together...in their attempts to find a woman for S and in their private moments.) But where was Dickens??

O, yes & yes in agreement with those who found S2 ep1 unlikeable. I didn't enjoy it one bit...well, except for Dickens & all that vast expanse of English green. The countryside is so lovely. But in the intro didn't Alan Cumming say that Geordie was "unravelling" (or some such term)? (Or was that on the PBS FB page?) Anyway, I thought his curiously impassive response to the brutal interrogation and his equally curious final scene staring into space in his own kitchen with his family around him were hints of the future. I hope not. Mock little Miss Marple all you want, I usually enjoy a good murder (so to speak) with its red herrings & limited suspects more when it's low on angst.

A Jane Rochford biographer somewhere (sorry; cannot recall name) said that the woman engaged in "pathological meddling," which would explain why she didn 't learn any kind of a lesson from the AB interlude but repeated her intrusive malice to her own destruction with H8's wife #5. Perhaps it really was - or became? - a kind of mental disorder. Why else would she continue behavior that teetered her on the edge of disaster? A non-medical kind of Munchausen Syndrome, maybe? (I've worked with a few people that seemed similarly to enjoy stirring a pot of malicious mischief simply for mischief's sake, though I wonder if the behavior didn't start much more innocently & then became a kind of addiction.) When JR tried something in the same line with H8's wife #5, she got caught in the net herself but she was apparently an intelligent woman. Did her miserable marriage motivate her to play with fire and hope only other people got burned (so to speak)? I thought the actress that played her in WH somehow always managed to show the character's bitterness simmering just below her surface, a flashing red light: Attention!!! FEAR. THIS. WOMAN. Of all the characters in this superb drama, she was the one about whom I was most ambivalent: sometimes appalled, sometimes sympathetic, but always fascinated. O Lady, what makes you tick?

Diner guy reaching for a gun? No. "It's a crepe!" That one line sold me on the whole show. It's all so sly. Born and raised in Michigan so I know the tough economy does breed a certain inside humor. Real mystery is will this show last. Hope so.