TS: Lewis vs Morse

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"

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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.

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

somehow it's also all about angels iirc

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

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

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

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.

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

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/

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!

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.

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

no seriously second ep of Morse proper features him rocking a deeply unfortunate leather jacket. a wardrobe choice that was quickly discarded

well i'm not doing anything else this evening :)

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!

good that means i never have to watch any of endeavour

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

that Shaun Evans is a very watchable actor tho

meanwhile morse s1e1 ends "it had to be you because there wasn't anyone else really" so that's now solidly in place too 😇

said with a measure of self-disgust tbf

would like to see the stats on how many people died because of his "wait until all the other suspects are dead" method

Endeavour is great, in large part due to Roger Allan and Anton Lesser who are great foils to Shaun Evans.

it sets off my stupid linguistic anachronism alarm more than any other TV show i've ever attempted

s1 e2: no leather jacket so far but the niggling between M and L and pleasingly frisky; also roger lloyd-pack klaxon

*is* pleasingly frisky

i've just googled and maybe the jacket is in the very first one, Dead of Jericho?

or i have some kind of bizarre long-term fetish hallucination

k i found a reference

Thankfully, Morse’s leather jacket and hat combination never resurfaced in future episodes.

https://morseandlewisandendeavour.com/2014/01/30/the-dead-of-jericho/

lol i went back and yes, it's the scene where lewis (still working for a different boss) catches a mysterious someone snooping round the dead lady's house in the dark, except it's morse!! tho i think it's more for the purposes of viewer-misdirection than off-piste character-construction… we're not meant to guess who it is until the reveal (scene also includes first appearance of the sophocles misdirect)

then they go a crappy pub together and bicker

i've always liked to think of it as Morse clinging to his hipster ladies man dreams

well his squeeze-interest is by then no more, maybe he was hoping to pull later on that evening (in the crappy pub)

except he encountered lewis instead, sadly cramping his style

hackstory for e2: every single oxford college is wildly and murderously corrupt, everyone employed by them is noxiously snobby (and also fvcking)

backstory also hackstory

twice in two eps that morse gets biffed on the noggin by a sharp object bcz he thinks he's cleverer than he actually is, and serve him right