Endeavour

Sorry about your Granpa, how awful, poor man, poor all of you.

Gulli I thought I recognised the village but won’t say the name as you live there. Was the big house Stonor Park in Oxfordshire?

NaneKate, it might well have been Stonor Park - when visiting the house you don't go into it from the angle it was shown on tv, so it looked a bit different. Checked out the images on Google and it does look very much as if you are right, it's a beautiful house in a perfect setting,

Gulli Stonor Park once put on a fab outside concert with Jools Holland. We took a picnic and rocked the night away. Last time I was there it was for an enormous Craft Fair.

We all get old NanKate craft fairs all the way with me, these days.

Roger Hallam and Anton Lessor are great actors, have never seen them in anything bad.
Bright is unpopular at first, but the station soon realise he is
Competent and fair.The episode of the escaped tiger is a really good one, and shows him in a new light.

I hope the next few episodes get back to the excellent calibre
Of writing from the earlier series.

I like how the character Jim Strange is covering Morse’s back

I read somewhere that we never found out what DCSupt. Strange's name is in Morse but in Endeavour we are told his name is Jim - which is a nod to the actor who played DCSupt. Strange in Morse - James Grout.

Apparently there are a few subtle references in Endeavour to the Morse series.

Dh and I are very disappointed with the new series. Cliche after cliche, such overdone characters - especially the dodgy boss copper - and I wish Endeavour would take his hands out of his pockets!! It just doesn't go with the character.

As for Thursday turning dodgy, that's the last straw.
It used to be such a favourite but I'm not sure we'll bother watching any more.

I didn't realise until this week that John Thaw's daughter plays the newspaper editor in Endeavour - how did I miss that? ?

I didn’t know either Beau I think she is good in the part.

Watched the episode about the Happy Families cards on catch-up last night. Now that really was silly - drowning in chocolate too. As someone has already pointed out it is more like Midsomer Murders now.

Abigail Thaw plays Dorothea Frazil and apparently frazil means ice crystals that form in turbulent water - not quite solid ice.

Last in the series tonight. Fingers crossed its better than the previous episodes.

I have loved them all! Long may it run...but yes, I also prefer him sans moustache.

Well that was more like it! Good episode and all set up for the next series.

So pleased Fred came good, he was always such a great character and for him to be "bent" didn't work for me .I can look forward to the next series now .

I loved that end to the series. Just when it looked like nearly everyone was corrupt.
I was so so happy Win + Fred stayed together.Love them!

I have just finished watching it.
Given how dangerous the situation would have been in tonights episode I found it a bit too cosy. I would doubt if he would have been able to get the gangs off his back that easily.

A strange episode. All the mighty four needed was Clint Eastwood. The ends tied up, Morse has his car and his house. Smile contentedly and roll the credits.

Are there more to come or was it the end of the programme?

The plot may have some holes in it but I do enjoy it.

A detective who knows ahead what the days sandwich will be. Roger Allam is brilliant.

I still do a double take when (Anton Lesser) Inspector Bright appears. He looks so like my late father it is uncanny and a bit unsettling .

I have been disappointed with this series - difficult to believe plots, lots of miserable faces and, as someone else said, some lazy characterisations.

I thought last night's episode was better than most and at least it had a reasonably positive - though over dramatic and rather silly - ending.

I will watch the next series in the hope that the writing improves. It will be such a waste to see a really good series, with some really well drawn characters, descend into mediocrity.

Eloethan the writing could not get much worse so the next series should be better. I enjoyed last night's episode, major holes and all.

Well, as always I loved it!! So glad that Win and Fred are reconciled! It wasn't the money!! It was loss of communication! what a relief! As it turned out, being in the pelican crossing advertisement saved Superintendent Brights life! Thank goodness for low level stardom!! So sad about his wife though. Concrete cancer takes about 10/15 years before a building actually collapses, and I think this high rise was virtually new!!! but no matter!!! Corruption in high places? well, I expect there probably was in those far off days, if my memory serves me correctly!!

I am completely ignoring the plot holes and unrealistic ending because I absolutely loved last night's episode.
Great acting from Shaun Evans, Roger Allam and Anton Lesser. I think the strength of the programme is that you feel invested in the characters and care what happens to them.
I wanted to stand up and cheer when the four good men came together in the end.

I enjoyed it too. Although it was all a bit pat, I thought Thursday was to be killed so I am content with how it ended. I don’t like too much realism