Grantchester

I really like the series . It’s obviously ridiculous to imagine a vicar would be helping the police with their work in that way but it would not be entertainment if the story stuck to real life, as in all these dramas . Would we ever go to hospital again if they were really like Holby City?

I know a gay ex vicar. He's a lovely man and would have been an excellent minister. He left as his face didn't fit in the church hierarchy. Luckily, he's found a job where his innate people skills and kindness can express themselves and be welcomed by those that need them.

I agree, thank god that gay men and women are now allowed freedom to love whom they wish. Poor Leonard, lets hope he gets a reprieve.

Yes, he really did look a "poor Leonard", in his brief appearance at the end of this week's episode.

This hit home to me, especially as I watched "Strictly", last night.

How times have changed, thank goodness!

I must have missed an episode.

Poor Leonard, I do like him. He seems quite nerdy but quite different in real life which shows his acting skills.

I wonder how many Nigerian curates were around in rural parishes 60 years ago

I grew up in a very rural area in the 50’s, you saw no Nigerian people at all, let alone in the ministry.

Oh, and I almost forgot. A black curate baptised my daughter in 1969.

We had a black priest in the late fifties, early sixties.

I have been watching this series although I agree the holiday camp episode was awful. On the whole I preferred James Norton's 'Sydney' to Will. May give up watching if Leonard goes as I don't think Sylvia's part has as much of an edge since she's married.

Avelinein 1953-54 I clearly remember the black curate at our church.

I wonder how many Nigerian curates were around in rural parishes 60 years ago? This 'parachuting' in of black actors is becoming really noticeable. I know I'll be shouted at for saying this but it's becoming so common. The percentage of black people in the UK was much smaller then than it is now. It's absolutely reasonable to include black families in modern day dramas and soaps. It's the anachronistic casting that strikes me and distracts from the story.

I agree the Bishop is bigoted, so is Sylvia, but we have to remember the time it is supposed to be, 1958?

A completely different world, especially in the CofE.

Over 60 years ago, times have changed so much.

Female clergy, gay vicars, same sex marriages- couldn’t possibly have been envisaged back then.

Oh i must catch up with this story line i forgot it was on. Thanks for the reminder.

Oh i must catch up with this story line i forgot it was on. Thanks for the reminder.

"Poor Leonard" did look awful in the prison scene. I hope he doesn't end his own life. This brings back what happened to Alan Turing. I think the world has gone 'woke-mad', but it has to be preferable to the unapologetic homophobia of those times.

Don’t blame Will really. Bishop did not consult him re the new curate and he has to share a house and work with him. Also not sure about the curate thought he was a bit sneaky telling the Bishop about Will. Good to see Will visit Leonard in prison.

Thank goodness Will is stroppy with the bigoted Bishop who referred to the Vicarage as Sodem and Gomorrah. A sign of the awful times homosexuals lived in.

Not much of Leonard tonight, looks to be more with him next week.

Will is really not much of a vicar. In bed with stepsister, mardy with his new curate, not at all welcoming, stroppy with his bishop, knocking back the whisky with Geordie before solving yet another case virtually single handed,

Think he should leave the ministry and join the police force properly.

He could appeal against his sentence granny but I’m guessing there would have to be extenuating circumstances.

Yes - poor Leonard. The actor that plays him is absolutely first class; the hesitant walk, the blinking, nervous expression and the constant fumbling together of his hands demonstrate a person full of stress and anxiety, so afraid of revealing the truth of his life. I suspect he will die - a sad story line and probably a common happening for men like Leonard in the 1950s.

They could appeal, but he pleaded guilty. Don't know if that would work. Alway wonder how the vicar is allowed to be so involved in police work and he's better that Geordie at solving the crimes!

Free the Grantchester One!

…and what will he do afterwards? He will presumably be an outcast of the church. (I haven’t watched it yet)

I watched Grantchester last night, (as usual), & I also thought, "poor Leonard"! How will he survive prison?

1958, to someone as old as me, that feels quite recent.

Visgir1

Lovely Leonard, such a shame he's too gentle to go to Jail.
Series ends next week there will be a miracle!

Or, realistically, there could be a tragedy. This is social history not fantasy.