Sonja

Imagine Geordie's reaction if Sidney had asked him for the gun to put her out of her misery. How true. Mrs. Maguire especially has a lot of great lines.

She Amen. She comes across as not just someone who wants what she hasn't got, but I also can't imagine her dealing with parishoners who need taps fixed or visterias cut back. Or Sidney when he's had more uisce beatha than his liver should be able to handle. On the other hand, I wouldn't wish a husband like Guy on anyone. Not just that, after the guy drops the gun he just leaves it there for someone to pick up again. You were a soldier, Chambers, what the Dickens?! The only explanation is having taken a hit to the head. And got what she deserved ;-) Thank you, Photo Fox for suggesting a series thread. I was directed here by a kind sould in the Happy Valley forum, I wouldn't have found it otherwise.

Don't know about a page, this is what I remember. I think Geordie actually talks most about Burma in the season 2 finale and that's only a few sentences. From Sidney we know that he was in the Scots Guards and he lost a man when he gave the all clear and a German soldier was still there and shot the young guy. Sidney shot him when it was clear he wouldn't make it but was in a lot of pain. He didn't send the boy's sweetheart the letter he had written because his blood was all over it and Sidney didn't think anyone should see that and still keeps that letter in a drawer in the vicarage. This was told partly in flashbacks, partly when Sidney told Geordie about it in the hospital at the end of season 1. Hope that helps.

I'm a few eps ahead, so I'm not going to comment too much, but while I agree about both of them being idiots, there were two things in my mind when this ep was aired: the look on Amanda's face when she was in the car and Guy walked off with Sidney & Guy punching Sidney without preamble along with his behaviour in a later episode makes me wonder if Sidney is the only person at the wrong end of his temper. And no, I don't think he deserved that punch in the face because hitting someone never solved anything except for the urge to hit someone. Also, Amanda wasn't dragged to Grantchester against her will and as someone else also commented Mrs. M and Leonard were present as well, so why resort to violence instead of stating right then and there that he doesn't appreciate them meeting up? Maybe he lets his beard grow long enough to trip over it and fall down the stairs ;-) Although I doubt Amanda would love to get involved in the community as much as a vicar's wife probably would have to. BTW, what happened to her 'being allowed' (*gag*) to keep her job?

Oh, thank you! :-) I am way too invested in those characters. Sad this week is the last ep already... Didn't they mention he was alive? I think Catherine's superiour said something along the lines of thim hanging by a thread.

Good point. I'm also pretty sure that the five women having the questionable pleasure of Frank's company in the kitchen couldn't complain without being painted as unfit for the marines or women ganging up on poor Frank if this is the reaction to filmed evidence of his douchebaggery.

Great to see this is actually being picked up. But wait, is that a WOMAN in the picture with him? Poor guy. Not. Hey Gunny, it wasn't the first time he said something like that on the show. It's not editing, he's a bloody eejit. Kauten should be forced to watch the entire season so he can listen to what his boy says in connection to being a marine, not just about women. He's a disgrace (and I'm not even American).

I know, that's why I added the bit about the press coverage ;-) Seriously though, I feel like an old ranting lady but the general lack of integrity is pissing me off big time and I really wish some TV producers would grow a pair and try to change things.

Couldn't agree more. It was especially obvious in the last ep - putting it under the spoiler tag in case you or anyone else hasn't seen it yet as this is not a Grantchester thread (and why don't we have one?!) - I love Catherine when she's having fun like tasering the guy in the groin and then joking about it. I know the series hinges on the exact opposite, but Catherine can be hilarious, so I hope they give her more balance in the next series. Otherwise she really might explode one of these days. Also, kudos for being able to play online games and registering anything about a series at the same time.

Sorry, I didn't phrase that clearly. I meant, as a cop, she should know the driver wasn't allowed to take Trixie, but she only expressed surprise that Trixie had used her account. I would have been furious that the driver took her to Lux without insisting on checking with her parents first. So 10 year olds are allowed to take taxis/Uber/whatever on their own in California? Bloody hell, I live in a country where we could actually be sent to buy our grandmother's liquor and cigarettes at the age of 6 and no one batted an eyelid, but if we had tried to take a taxi, the driver would have called the police immediately to check out where the hell our guardians were.

They should have called him that in the show. Someone tweeted GR about his opinion on Frank's misogyny and he replied 'Trust me, I was not impressed'. Why wasn't anything said on the show then? I can't believe GR only learned about the comments after Frank's worthless behind was finally removed from the premises. That's why I commented in the thread of the earlier episode where he stated he couldn't work with women that this would have been the ideal moment to send him packing. There would be women in the restaurant's kitchen, so he obviously couldn't be the head chef. Instead of letting him rant on for several episodes, they could have taken a stand and even garnered some press coverage for it.

Absolutely! Oh, Daniel Lanois, nice one! Please no Belinda Carlisle! The radio station with the best traffic updates over here is obsessed with her and it's driving me nuts- Lyrically though, it would be brilliant. They say in heaven, love comes first. Did you hear that, Amenadude & Co? ;-) That's interesting, thank you! As a cop, Chloe should have gone after the driver who took the ride.

According to studies, atheists actually know more about different religions than believers. Also, there's probably a different POV if there are no personal experiences slipping in, so this makes sense.

You mean Brit David Harewood? ;-)

Amen. I have to say I'm in awe of her self-confidence. Embarrassing herself like that by claiming to be god's gift to (wo)mankind is a feat in itself. Too bad her skills in the kitchen don't equal her big mouth.

I was waiting for her to show up until I realised she must be somewhere in Chloe's mother. I never would have recognised her. That was a positive surprise actually. I find I enjoy them not going with every expected pun equally as the ones they are doing. Wouldn't it be fun if you actually got it without having to explain? Those two could wreak some serious havoc. Can you imagine a drunk Dr. Linda out and about with Maze? It would also be interesting to see Lucifer's reaction given that he told Maze to get lost. The writers are playing with us. I really hope Malcolm shoots Lucifer only for the both of them to find out that Lucifer is actually only allergic to bullets when they are fired by Chloe. I'm hoping for a rather violent outbreak the moment he realises; red face, (hell's) bells and whistles and all that jazz, sending Malcolm and his unfortunate facial hair to a mental institution that not even Amenadude can get him out of. Or directly to hell; he's barely been awake and is already going on my nerves. It would also be interesting to see Chloe's reaction if Lucifer actually killed someone. Yes, that was me. I managed to keep my cackling in check long enough for the song being brought to a screeching halt. I hadn't heard that version before ;-) Off topic, but INXS has been short changed by music history, so I'm always glad to hear them pop up somewhere. Oh, I think we can come up with quite a few. Hell's Bells by AC/DC or Econoline Crush's The Devil You Know would be a departure style-wise. Then there's Pearl Jam's Satan's Bed, The Beatles' The Devil in her Heart, Elvis Presley's (You're the) Devil in Disguise (I don't know how the estate is handling rights for TV shows),.... I didn't get any empathy for the chef's son either. He was trying to see parallels where there were little and threw a tantrum at the dinner table when things didn't go his way. Frank was the only one who really got to him. Other than that, it's been more about the need to punish people for what they have done than emphasizing with the victims. Trixie seems to be a clever girl, she probably knows a lot more than the adults in her life want her to. Maybe she asked Chloe what Lucifer did and she told her about Lux. BTW, does anyone know if it was legal for the Uber driver to take her on her own? I'm watching from across the pond and this seemed very stange to me. Especially in that outfit with a week's worth of make-up on her face. EDIT: I can't believe I forgot Kris Kristofferson's 'To Beat the Devil' and 'The Silver Tongued Devil and I'

As soon as he shot Malcolm and his 'informant', fled the scene and let his wife and mother of his child get ostrachised by the rest of the precinct, he became as dirty as Malcolm, even if he wasn't before. That's a very good question!

That probably would make the priest's week ;-)

Glad to see this was (and probably still is) an international practice ;-) I once made the mistake of asking our teacher if confessing sins I didn't commit wasn't a sin in itself because it broke the whateverth commandment (the one about lying). Whoopsie, not a good idea. Those are my favourite parts of the show as well. I love when things are questioned and not taken as facts 'just because'.

It was good to see Lucifer actually having fun with something that isn't violence or debauchery. Not that I don't enjoy those aspects of the show or how he treated the Spider in the church. I was disappointed that he didn't throw Doyle across the church when he was letting him down, but that probably wasn't in the episode's budget. He already introduced Amenadude (thank you whoever coined this, I could never spell him rightly) to Chloe as his brother. Chloe and Dr. Linda know each other, so if he told her something else, the wires might have become crossed. If he told her 'Dr. Caanan' was actually his brother, that would have opened another can of worms in his sessions with Dr. Linda that he very likely wouldn't be too keen on. The Hail Marys made me laugh, thinking back to our ridiculous childhoold confessions (our teacher gave each of us a list of potential sins we might want to confess as most 7 year olds don't tend to steal or get it on with their neighbour's spouses) that had been used for her pupils for decades much to the amusement of the priest who 'sentenced' everyone to 10 Hail Marys and 5 Lord's Prayers after a chat about the next soccer practice. The second quote was pure brilliance. Maze would have been constantly nauseous *g* I thought he played it because that was what the priest played before he asked him to switch it up (can't remember the wording). Is there space for one more? I don't care about weird moustache guy (who probably can't shoot anyone for a few days while he's praying to the porcelain god after stuffing his face with the entire menu) or Dan. Even if Dan shot him to save Chloe, what was he doing there in the first place that prevented him from coming clean right after the shooting? If they turned Dirty Dan into Dead Dirty Dan, I wouldn't give a ****; which they are not likely to do because he's apparently a good(ish) dad, so I fear they are in some way going to try to redeem him.

I don't think this is a spoiler. And I can't even begin to imagine how exhausting this role has to be for Sarah Lancashire. The UK system is different in general. Soaps not withstanding, it's rare that a show has more than 13 episodes and they don't start like clockwork at the same time every year. Sometimes it's funny when actors suddenly show up in everything because the schedules work out like that. James Norton being Tommy Lee Royce Tuesdays on the BBC and Reverend Chambers on Wednesdays on ITV is a good example. There were almost two years between series 1 and 2 and I really didn't mind. I prefer short seasons generously spaced to the hammering out of 22 episodes and running out of stories to tell actually. I can wait two years if the result is that good. So, in short: I absolutely agree with you ;-)

That would be karma at its best. I haven't made it to one of his restaurants yet (planning to visit The Narrow the next time we are in London though), but when I'm travelling to Canada or the US via London Heathrow, we usually pre-order the picnics and pick them up from his Plane Food airport restaurant to eat on the flight. My usual travelling partner and I have different food intolerances, so we started this to avoid having to choose between getting ill or not eating at all, but now we do it because it's really good.

My take on it was that she is scared what he could turn into after the talk with Alison. There's a lot of stuff for S3 there, not least