TS: Lewis vs Morse

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Maths geek listening to Muse ergo clearly deserves to die

Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Lol Peggy Mount in two minute nun cameo

A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

God Morse is a sex pest

Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link

Still getting handsy with the only surviving criminal

Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link

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

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link

four months pass...

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

A bot scamping on a human face, forever (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link

lol true

Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link

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

so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link

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

take it to the JiC thread

armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link

shush

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link

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

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link

Ffs the librarians that burn their own holdings

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link

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.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link

Hathaway and shite

calzino, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link

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

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link

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

as someone who sort of fancied him in the series, I did just check his Wikipedia, and holy/wholly shit. pardon my ESL, but isn’t that what you call “a wrong’un”?

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link

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

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link

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

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:54 (three years ago) link

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.

mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link

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.

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link

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

we are not men. we are breastcrawl!

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link

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

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link

AS ACTORS

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link

"Kill the actors"

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

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link

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

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link

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

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link

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

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link

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

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link

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

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link

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

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link

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

mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link

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

mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link

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

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link

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.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link

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.

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link

Quick ten minutes of "Morse Goes Raving" is as terrible as I remember but also weirdly brilliantly peak Morse

Not you Boyle you're shit sit down

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link

somehow it's also all about angels iirc

mark s, Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link

Getaway car hitting a tree at 5 mph and exploding in a ball of flame just made me hurt myself laughing

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link

Fuck me now it's the dork who replaced Nick Berry in Heartbeat with huge bouffant ebergy

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link

e-bergy! e-bergy! it's ebbernee-bergy!

mark s, Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link

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.

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Absolutely love how Lewis solved the case and doesn't let Morse know just because of his affection for him.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 April 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link

talentless posh cunt from a long line of privileged right wing wankers made it to our front pages, ugh:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/britse-acteur-die-londen-veel-te-woke-vindt-wil-daar-burgemeester-worden~be792e98/

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 April 2021 12:03 (three years ago) link

Hugh Grant has been flirting with the Liberal Democrats for years, mainly out of personal dissatisfaction with Brexit and the power of the conservative press.

this posh cunt needs sending to the gulag as well!

calzino, Friday, 16 April 2021 12:09 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

They're showing the very first Morse ep, and Holy Fuck John Thaw was only 44 when it was filmed. I mean, he was one of those guys who always looked old, but damn.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 October 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

turned my TV on and there's morse being horny lol

mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link

wait did this posh woman just call someone a "stupid little cvnt"?

mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

now watching morse from the very very start

it's kind of a compressed speed-run of everything that follows (morse is horny, the musical lady in question does not survive; strange is exasperated, tho to be fair in a more kindly way than will be the case in the future; lewis is barely out of his teens and full of not-yet-squashed vim)

mark s, Saturday, 29 July 2023 16:41 (eight months ago) link

i think "Morse in leather jacket" is the second ep not the first but it sure is a treat

Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 July 2023 16:45 (eight months ago) link

lewis just gave morse this reason he must be wrong abt a deduction: "that's because you're in a bad mood!" (said very perkily)

mark s, Saturday, 29 July 2023 16:56 (eight months ago) link


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