Join Rhys Bowen and Tasha Alexander as they discuss their favorite (and least) crime televison series, casting decisions, and ponder the perfect actors to play their own leading characters! Rhys Bowen: Tasha, do you watch many mysteries/crime shows on TV? I am not a huge TV viewer and I find that most of the shows…
• Are you in the UK? Are you a fanatic for TV's Sherlock, Midsomer Murder, Miss Marple, Poirot, Inspector Morse, and Inspector Lewis? Then would you like to appear on a trivia segment for a TV show, The Crime Thriller Club? (insert shrieking here): “…each week we will be leading up to the Crime Thriller…
“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…
Call me fickle: just as I was mourning the loss of Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway, along comes another man to steal my heart. His name is Shaun Evans, and if there are photos of him frolicking on the beaches of the French Riviera or cavorting in Las Vegas, I don’t want to see them. …
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,…
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out,” wrote the philosopher and essayist Francis Bacon in 1625. How generous of him to provide the basis, the title, and the hidden message for this week’s installment of Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece Mystery.…
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…
