Endeavour

Finding it hard going, certainly not as good as it used to be and is a bit long winded. I do wonder if they are struggling to come up with something that hasn't been seen before.

Last night I wondered if Mrs Thursday had been seeing the "cult guru" but now I am wondering if they are writing the menopause into the series and it will turn out to be that. I am getting cross because they won't speak to each other.

So disappointed with this series so far, and I love Endeavour, and what on earth is up with Mrs Thursday?

I wonder if the programme has new script-writers as Thursday seems to be changing personality each week, and the plots are silly and the dialogue seems stilted.

It's not a patch on "Vera" and the lovely Brenda Blethwyn.

Not so good thus series - Thursday seems to be becoming more unpleasant and grumpy - no wonder his wife has wandering eyes! And the plots are silly. May not bother again.

I thought it was just. Me!! I was totally confused have watched two episodes and struggling following the plot!

No doubt nasty cop will get his comeuppance! Less subtle characters atm. Let's hope they mellow a bit. Thursday is depressed...

Oddly enough I’m enjoying this.

I usually love Endeavour, but the moustache is awful.
And the nasty-boss policeman is such an overdone cliche.
Might add that I wish Endeavour would take his hands out of his pockets!! It just doesn't seem to go with his character.

Somewhat lazy writing, IMO.

I though " midsomer" when he went into thar crazy therapy session!

Oh dear! Endeavour has turned into Midsomer Murders ... and not only that, but the scriptwriters have made the characters explain the plot ... such a lazy way of telling the story. This series is a bit rubbish (but "Thunderbirds" was exactly how it used to be!)

Ah but it suited Terrance Stamp with th owe beautiful eyes.

We enjoyed it. Yes, the moustache was very much of the time. We were married then and DH sported a similar one. I think I encouraged him to gro one after seeing Terence Stamp in’ Far from the Madding Crowd’.

We enjoyed it. Also recorded and skipped the adverts. I could live with the moustache, reminded me very much of the way a friend looked in 1969.

I agree Fran. Just watched it and thought it was excellent. Looking forward to the next episode.

Well, I loved it. Always record anything on a station with adverts, then can watch the drama and not the adverts. I did not think I would like the tache, but actually did - thought it suited him very well. This was obviously an introductory episode as he will be back in CID next week. Thursday had already said that if the brush case was handed in, then it would mean that it would cause every case he and his team had been involved in would be up for investigation. Although the owner of that brush case had been found guilty on planted evidence (which Thursday knew and concerned him), Morse finding the actual murder weapon vindicated the outcome of that trial - and rather than handing that in and starting all sort of problems for no good outcome, Morse put it back where he had found it. Prior to that, Thursday still thought that he had helped send an innocent man to the gallows.
In order for Morse to be transferred back to CID, it was implied to the Senior Officer that he was a member of a 'Lodge'. Such was the power of those secret societies back then. Morse life-long, hated and opposed such societies, and this probably had a result on his status in the police back then.
So no actual murder in this episode (except the one prior to the start for which the husband hand been hanged), Hit and Run.
Looking forward to rest of this series very much

Thursday WAS coughing up blood in the last series.... then he coughed up the actual bullet, and all was well again!

Watched it yesterday and will certainly watch again. I felt this episode was very much a transition from the last series.
Reminders, catchup and setting the scene for Morse's return to his real calling as a detective.
Were the unpleasant detectives there to flag up the differences in approach between the merged forces?
Or perhaps just to bring in the fairly widespread sexist attitudes prevalent at the time. Morse was not guilty of this but I seem to remember that when older, he could be quite intolerant of women!

Me too Nanaandgrampy. I'm going to record the new series of Shetland and watch it in long sessions rather than wait a week between episodes.

I liked it but didn't like the detective who felt he could manufacture evidence and was sadly disappointed to see how hangdog Thursday was. I liked him far better in the previous series.
One thing I couldn't work out is they planted the hammer, then found the suitcase with the real hammer and blood stained clothing. Wouldn't it have vindicated Thursday to hand in the case minus the hammer?

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to the next one. I do like to see the whole story in one episode so I don't forget what's gone on :-)

I thought it was just to show us what would have happened to Lewis Carroll if he had been taking his pictures today. I am afraid one's father was rarely around when sexist remarks were made.

The horse was an enjoyable red herring for us. I thought it was the farmer wot dunnit because the girl would often get off the bus at an earlier stop to visit the horse in its field, give it sugar lumps etc., so it got to know her. Her books told us she was pony mad so when the horse got loose and wandered across her lying in the field it led Morse to her body.

As you can tell I watched far too many episodes of Champion the Wonder Horse when I was ten!!

I absolutely loved the escaped tiger episode!

I loved seeing the poster with Colin Dexter's name on too. Keeping the tradition of him appearing in Morse episodes going.?

According to Wikipedia the new series is set in early summer of 1968, which was in reality when the change over from City Police to Thames Valley took place. The programme seemed to indicate that the change over had only just happened hence all the teething problems that were clearly indicated!