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
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 allmost of the brit detective shows off Primewent 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
― 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
― 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
"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
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
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
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
wait i'm not watching endeavour i'm watching morse ("from the start" is admittedly somewhat misleading)
it's lewis's birthday is why he's so "sparky this morning" (©morse crossly)
― mark s, Saturday, 29 July 2023 16:57 (eight months ago) link
no seriously second ep of Morse proper features him rocking a deeply unfortunate leather jacket. a wardrobe choice that was quickly discarded
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:03 (eight months ago) link
well i'm not doing anything else this evening :)
― mark s, Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:06 (eight months ago) link
Shaun Evans in the final season of endeavour is approximately the same age as thaw was in season 1 of Morse. The baton, cleanly handed off!
― omar little, Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:11 (eight months ago) link
good that means i never have to watch any of endeavour
― mark s, Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:23 (eight months ago) link
i've barely watched Endeavour considering i know the other two shows off by heart more or less. it looks alright when i've seen it but too much backfill or something
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:24 (eight months ago) link
that Shaun Evans is a very watchable actor tho
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:25 (eight months ago) link