Currently watching Endeavour. It's a sort of prequel to the original Inspector Morse stories.
Series 6 now showing on UK ITV Channel. Had watched Series 1-3 previously, (bought in iTunes store), but just started from scratch and gonna catch up to present.
Seriously good. Exceedingly good.
Actually, seriously excellent; I have been watching series six - which is superb - it just gets better and darker and more excruciatingly exquisitely painful in how it depicts the human condition.
Shaun Evans as the young Morse is outstanding - and getting better - slowly inhabiting the grumpy and disappointed detective we knew from the 80s and 90s series, as he transforms from an awkward and intelligent and idealistic police officer to the morose (but suppressed idealistic) grump we learned to love.
Roger Allam as his mentor Thursday is superb, and the superlative Anton Lesser as Bright is a masterclass in understated heartbreak; their wives - Caroline O'Neill as Win Thursday is formidably brilliant, as is Carol Royal as Mrs Bright (seriously, have you ever heard description of falling in love described so economically, with such suppressed emotion, and such heartbreak as in that snatched scene with Thursday and Bright, both smoking, both bereft.....acting at its finest.
Some of the women are at the core of issues of identifying (and adhering to) the moral compass - this is strong stuff.
This is an outstanding series, and one that has been getting better as it progresses, and series six has been especially strong. I would go so far as to say excellent. Intelligent, outstanding.
