TS: Lewis vs Morse

I am laughing a bit about his complaints about 1917 because he was in a WW1 movie about a haunted trench. Are ghosts historically accurate???

my complaints about 1917 is that it is another bad sentimental bullshit war movie by a dreadful director. But yeah, what a prize pumper for saying that!

it's not like a member of the Fox family to go nuts

This made me laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0XnLs7DSc

The Greek ep of Morse is so good, he hits some special notes of obnoxiousness, also I want to read The Magus for the first time in 30+ years

tfw you settle down for a nice long maigret and it's just mr bean w/a sour puss >:(

The Greek ep is one of my faves

I quite like Atkinson as Maigret tbh

i'm still watching

(tho given the topic of this thread that is no index of quality)

I'm a discerning viewer I'll have you know

lol im not

"Is there a butler?"
"Haven't seen one sir."
"Pity. It might have saved us a lot of time."

i just watched an entire ep of father brown -- lol it was extremely terrible

(not a gkc story for a start but even so)

The Father Browns are really wrong as far as the stories are concerned, they might as well have just called it something else.

Maths geek listening to Muse ergo clearly deserves to die

Lol Peggy Mount in two minute nun cameo

God Morse is a sex pest

Still getting handsy with the only surviving criminal

You should try the Elmore Leonard novel where the hero hits on his girlfriend outside the rape clinic

The unemployment rate amongst posh elfin actresses must have shot up when they stopped making Lewis

lol true

I don't know, I have Britbox and there are roughly 5,000 murder mysteries on there packed with posh elfins and hapless dad bods

i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)... is it weird i’ve never watched Morse? mum used to watch, feel like i absorbed it vicariously

i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole all
most of the brit detective shows off Prime

went to do a rewatch of Cracker but it was the bloody American remake! /vomit emoji

i am v fucked off that britbox & acorn stole most of the brit detective shows off Prime

take it to the JiC thread

shush

truly this thread was my "horror cannot be set in space" lol

also i see that wikipedia have deleted the list of the name of midsomer villages, which is like the burning of the library of alexandria x one trillion

Ffs the librarians that burn their own holdings

i love Endeavour (esp w mustache) & enjoy Lewis (though Hathaway holds most of the appeal there)..

Probably best not to read about the subsequent exploits of the actor who played Hathaway then. Could never stand him myself.

Hathaway and shite

hitchcock: "actors are cattle"
you, aghast: "hitchcock is cancelled!"
actors: "hold my beer"

Probably best not to read about the subsequent exploits of the actor who played Hathaway then. Could never stand him myself.

How about talentless posh cunt from a long line of privileged right wing wankers?

Yeah that's one of the more disappointing of disappointments in People Who Turn Out to Be Shitheads.

we called Fox the Gwyneth Paltrow of British TV because women liked him but men instantly hated him and were later vindicated by his despicable behavior

anyway xpost, but I can't really rewatch Morse these days either. It's A. ponderously slow and B. the morality on display hasn't aged well. I'm more excited about a new season of Shakespeare and Hathaway, speaking of Hathaways. The mysteries are barely half a step above Death in Paradise but the leads are so delightful I don't care.

Hathaway's mayoral candidate video came up as one of my pre-rolls on YouTube and I felt like I must have done something shameful to deserve it.

we called Fox the Gwyneth Paltrow of British TV because women liked him but men instantly hated him

tbft that line of posh privileged wankers it did at one time include some actors who (despite being cattle) were good not bad

AS ACTORS

"Kill the actors"

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/8/8c/Prod68_03.jpg/600px-Prod68_03.jpg

i still enjoy Hathaway tbh not sure Lozza's shenanigans don't add layers

adding in "(the ACAB years)" to every series of all procedurals ever, and never being wrong

also i stand by the hathaway backstory-reset as a tool to interpret this show

the only constants in Hathaway's backstory are god-bothering and jazz fusion and i'm sure there's an exception to them somewhere

shocking how less than 10 years ago i'd never watched Lewis and now i can quote whole eps

Poor old Lewis stuck with that miserable old git Morse then the possibly even more miserable Hathaway.

Lewis excels above Endeavor and Morse at the crucial police/detective procedural scene: having coffee at a picturesque local cafe and talking about murder, then suddenly having to leave

also lewis has a competent boss: morse just the "maverick" to tropey mctroutface or whatever he's called

even Innocent goes a bit Oxford Mafia every now and then tho

It’s been awhile since I watched Morse, but I seem to remember in the first few episodes he wasn’t actually that good at solving the crimes.

Yes, Morse got it wrong in quite a few episodes throughout the series: "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", "Driven to Distraction" (where he victimised an innocent car dealer), the one set in Australia ("Promised Land") and particularly "Dead on Time", when he meets his former fiancée again and remains clueless right to the end. Not sure whether this is also a feature of Colin Dexter's books.