TS: Lewis vs Morse

is phil davis in that one?

yup in fact it is jampacked with well known faces

(PD also speaks posh-ish; tbf jim broadbent maintains a mild non-posh inflection alongside lewis)

watching the satanism ep and morse is being even more insufferably arsey than usual telling ppl who staff a hospital for the criminally insane what their job is

ok possibly "not letting one of the criminally insane escape" is a part of their job they just effed up but

can't tell if keith allen is deftly fashioning a character or thinks that's how ppl actually say "shaman" and "charlatan"

as it's a bank holiday i'm subjecting myself to an endeavour X[

lol it's trying to be le carré

plus there's a highly unconvincing sidestory abt race and gangs and voodoo

back at the satanist morse story: keith allen in a bushy fake moustache sat outside a pub supping a beer and reading the london a-z like a novel

this is not a good episode

i never enjoyed that episode, it feels badly constructed as well as silly

lol i hadn't even got to the wildly silly scene

https://www.filmtipps.at/kritiken/The_Devil_rides_out/thumbs/The_Devil_rides_out_2.jpg

gwladys probert

actress welshing it up to the max

show always improved when the pathologist is
(a) a woman (dr hobson) who
(b) doesn't take morse's ridiculous shit

(max was also good, for the same reason)

even so the plot-tic that morse is the only faintly adequate copper in the country remains annoying

lol they shd have called this show HECATOMB

show always improved when the pathologist is
(a) a woman (dr hobson) who
(b) doesn't take morse's ridiculous shit

(max was also good, for the same reason)

― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I would to re-watch more but this makes me realise the only characters that took no shit were the 'educated' sorts.

i imagine it's different in the original books but there's not really a coherent throughline of class politics or anything else in the show: even the way long-term characters interact swerves just wildly between episodes

but yes it is almost entirely about chaos and competition within the professional layers

it's just funnier when he doesn't get his way

sir clixby bream

(tremendous slimy performance from richard briers)

oh dear i've reached the ep that is set in victorian oxford which morse is solving while in a narcotic dream in a hospital bed

maybe it will not be terrible

i have bad news

OMG, never even knew such a ridiculous thing existed

i have a very vague memory of something like this occurring in a book-detective series -- like a break from the present to dig into the past -- where it maybe worked a bit better? but i can't remember which detective so making the comparison is a bit bogus really

the daughter of time?

doesn’t work that well in that tbh.

haven't read it and not what i had in mind -- if i had anything at all -- but yes!

(lewis sat this one out btw)

(he made the right decision)

actually what i might be thinking of is a tv reinvestigation of the ripper murders which i saw in 1973: the faces fronting it were barlow and watt (stratford johns and frank windsor) of z cars and then softly softly

i remember my dad having to explain to me what "poses plastique" were, something abt a male brothel (i don't recall why this was relevant; maybe he didn't explain that)

anyway it's 50 years since i saw that but i think it was better than this is

it was a half season of shite in the sopranos is what i remember

last ever ep

morse: "you know you really should persevere with wagner, lewis, it's about IMPORTANT THINGS"

lewis going off when the woman suspect says "Morse will understand" That's INSPECTOR Morse.

at least he had strange with him when he went

so i started watching endeavour from the start bcz in the evening after a day's work i am always fatigued ftb beta blockers and demanding TV is no longer for me :(

mostly it sucks MIGHTILY (very badly written) but in this ep (no 3 in all: rocket) YUNG MORSE caused the girl he's currently interested in laugh when he called a disco a "pop dancing club" (ep set in 1965) -- that was actually a good line and a good exchange, where the anachronism is the great man's callow error not the scriptwriter's

One I saw was set the week of the 1966 world cup final and I peaced out pretty quick

"Would you bring Greaves back into the side Morse?" fuck off

Morse would refuse to watch because Ramsey wasn't playing wingers.

2 ("fugue") was abt a serial killer playing fiendish games in codes that only an advanced musical brain could ever crack ("every good boy deserves favour")

i don't mind shaun evans -- very watchable -- but so far i hate his oh-i-just-cracked-this scene and pray it is not going to be a fixture

academic misuses "refute" in 1965* -- not very likely but might have happened?
an angry morse not jumping scornfuly on the solecism -- would absolutely not have happened lol

*it's not a synonym for "deny": to refute you must supply the proof

oh-i-just-cracked-this scene and pray it is not going to be a fixture

oh no

(very dislikeable) character mentions the new left review while teasing morse (it's 1966 so ilx's beloved perry anderson is editor) #onethread

this is the silliest stuff

now watching the world cup ep: it also features chopin and heraldry plus a haunted girls school that's very picnic at hanging rock when it's not harry potter

getting unrelated topics to clash fruitfully is a morsey thing tho i think it fails at this more often than it succeeds and i don't have high hopes for this

scooby-doo-ass garbage

gotta hand it to em, sway was a pretty good ep, maybe it's finding its feet!

(i mean still p silly in some ways, but also quite affecting and the anachronism kept in check for a change)

(i like the one-word titles btw, that's a nice tic)

deems said this show got better and in s3 it has, which is nice

is there another drama which wd open with a close-up of a man deploying MOLE TRAPS on a well kept lawn, i think not

the mole trap man is in fact lozza's dad :|