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I love this series. The characters and plots are complex enough to allow you to watch them over and over again. There are many layers and great with to each one and I find new things in them every time I watch them.
When the Morse series was commissioned, it was thought that there would be only a few episodes. How wrong they were! And that is before all the tribute showings after Thaw's death and Morse weekends on ITV3.
Inspector Morse (played by John Thaw) is a Chief Inspector in the Thames Valley police. He loves opera, real ale, art, literature and doing the Times crossword. He is also irrascible, bad tempered, stubborn and very unlucky in love (he tends to fall for ladies who are either the culprit or who played a supporting role).
He is helped by the loveable Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately) who supports Morse through thick and thin and puts up with his bad temper.
One of the nicest things about the series is watching these main characters develop and their relationship grow, first to respect, then to friendship.
The third key character is Oxford, both town and gown. There are some beautiful shots of the countryside and most episodes are set in various colleges.
Although mainly a "whodunnit", there is good characterisation and empahsis on why crimes were commited. The viewer is led to feel sympathy for many of the characters and the positions that they find themselves in. The authors (it is based on Dexter's character but he did not write them all), are not scared to tackle some horrible crimes but they do so with a light touch and the programme does not become ghoulish.
There are some great supporting actors and you will have endless fun working out what else they were in. My favourite is the Emperor in Masonic Mysteries.
Being very sad, I have refused to watch the last episode, the Remorseful Day. I am sure you all know the ending, but if I don't actually see it, it didn't happen!
If you like Morse I would recommend the box set. It is attractive and quite robust. You will be surprised just how often you will watch them and you will save a fortune over buying them individually through Amazon. Individual episodes are to be had quite cheaply on ebay at the time of writing though.
Episodes are: The Dead of Jericho The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Service Of All the Dead The Wolvercot Tongue Last Seen Wearing The Settling of the Sun The Last Bus to Woodstock The Ghost in the Machine The Last Enemy Deceived By Flight The Secret of Bay 5b The Infernal Serpent The Sins of the Fathers Driven to Distraction Masonic Mysteries Second Time Around Fat Chance Who Killed Harry Field? Greeks Bearing Gifts Promised Land Dead on Time Happy Families The Death of the Self Absolute Conviction Cherubim and Seraphim Deadly Slumber The Day of the Devil Twilight of the Gods The Way Through the Woods The Daughters of Cain Death is Now My Neighbour The Wench is Dead The Remorseful Day
dicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much ...
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20.07.2007 10:25
A good interesting review. ...I've never got into this series though I admire John Thaw in other dramas...Tony
19.05.2007 09:19
Good review