Word to the wise: You’d better be on your toes when you’re dealing with Endeavour. If you’d forgotten this, the first two minutes of “Trove” will remind you. They’re a deluge of information: Miss Great Britain participates in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting; Morse undergoes a physical exam; a car pulls into a gas station; a dark-haired…
It's true, we're cleaning out our prize closet, but the goodies are so perfect, you can still see the shrink wrap! Here's your chance at a bundle of multimedia mystery with: two DVDs of UK crime TV (including Inspector Lewis: Series 5, based upon the characters of Colin Dexter; and the first season/set of Vera,…
“They come at you through what you care about,” D.I. Fred Thursday tells Morse, explaining the intimidation tactics of mobsters and thugs. He’s talking in generalities about one specific “face” called Vic Kasper. Thursday and Kasper have history dating back to Thursday’s time working in London. Kasper resurfacing in Oxford as the proprietor of a…
Endeavour series creator/writer Russell Lewis must be a fan of The Lion in Winter. If you are, too, prepare to be awash in allusions to it in this episode, starting with Jenny Seagrove’s first scene with her husband, played by Martin Jarvis. She’s Nora, he’s Henry, and they’re engaged in a power struggle over British…
Is your knowledge of opera as limited as mine? Well, lucky for us, Endeavour Morse’s knowledge of opera is vast and comprehensive. And that turns out to be lucky for him, too, because his “specialist knowledge” makes him invaluable to this week’s investigation. As the episode begins, Endeavour has been reassigned to “general duties,” essentially…
If you were a fan of the Inspector Morse mystery series, as I was, you might be forgiven for imagining that Morse was born old. A man so steadfastly set in his behavior and his world view came that way straight out of the box, right? And yet we always knew Morse, as portrayed by…
One of the great mysteries of Inspector Morse on Masterpiece Mystery was the mystery of Morse himself. Over 13 years and 64 episodes Morse, portrayed by John Thaw, revealed very little of his true nature. He liked real ale and crossword puzzles. Who doesn’t? He drove a burgundy 1959 Jaguar Mk II in mint condition,…
I’ve been a fan of good TV crime drama for decades – whether the classic, English Inspector Morse, the brutally realistic Law & Order franchise, or the sassy-scientific CSI stable. What I didn’t realise until very recently, is that, whether I knew it or not, I was actually doing…
