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Endeavour Season 9 Finale – Came out in 2023.  Finale season for the 'Younger Morse".  After this episode, Morse takes over.  There is a last shot where Endeavour leaves Oxford and Morse is shown arriving there😊!

Set from 1965 into the 1970s, the show follows Endeavour Morse in his early years as a police constable. Working alongside his senior partner DI Fred Thursday, Morse engages in a number of investigations around Oxford.

A review from IMDB...

As a huge fan of Endeavour and later on the Chief Inspector Morse series, I'm deeply fascinated by the character cast by Shaun Evans, an enigmatic, melancholic, fragile, highly intelligent, meanwhile very good-looking and well-versed in arts Endeavour Morse. The show has much to offer than just a detective plot in each episode. The music, the whole cast, the nostalgic vibe of the 1960s, the scenery of England.

This TV series also speaks well about the spirit of how the British people in the industry make good TV shows without making a big fuss or exploiting a huge fortune of their own out of it. They are a low-profile, yet highly talented, professional, and devoted group of people, the actors and actresses and all the production teams.

Thank you for putting on such an epic, high-quality show for us.

My Take – An absolute watch!

 

Sherwood – Came out in 2022.  Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history.

Trivia

Tom Glenister, playing young Kevin Salisbury, is the real life son of Robert Glenister, playing adult Kevin Salisbury.

A review from IMDB...

Set in a small mining village of Annesley adjacent to Sherwood Forest near Nottingham, this series partially recreates the true story of the unusual cross bow murder of local retired miner Keith "Froggy" Frogson although depicted as fictitious Gary Jackson (Alun Armstrong). Set against the backdrop of the hugely divisive 1984 miners' strike, the village was home to many local miners who broke from the National Union of Mineworkers' famous protracted and often violent fight with Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government, hellbent on breaking the power of dominant trade unions, by crossing picket lines and working the local mines. Striking local miners never forgave the "scabs" in their midst and tensions still simmered beneath the surface decades later.

The series features a veritable 'Who's Who' of fabulous British acting talent and contains many flashbacks to 1984 to various incidents between then young police officers and striking families with complex relationships 40 years on now strained by the investigation. The suspected murderer terrorizes the village with random arrow attacks whilst hiding out in the very forest made famous by Robin Hood lending a compellingly surreal mythological backdrop to the extensive manhunt.

The acting across the board is of universally excellent quality and the plot, character development and pace are fantastic with a gripping and compelling pace that makes for great binge worthy viewing.

My Take – An absolute watch!

 

Unforgotten Season 5 – Came out in 2023. When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Cassie Stuart is called in to investigate with her partner, Detective Sergeant (DS) Sunil "Sunny" Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar). Jimmy Sullivan was a homeless runaway, murdered in 1976 when the building was a hostel. His diary implicates four suspects: a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker, and a disabled house-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of. Nothing in this case is black and white. Can you ever really know the people closest to you? What secrets have they buried?

A review from IMDB...

British TV series (Mostly Cop Shows) are about 90% of my TV viewing habit other than sports and the news shows. Unforgotten is the finest TV series I have watched since Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty. The show is first class on every level, writing, direction, and acting. The series is about a squad of London dectectives who investigate cold cases of murder and suspicious disappeances. The story has what is called a "Hook" that makes it unique and a one of a kind series. The detectives are called in when a set of bones are found in shallow graves or abandoned buildings. Meanwhile, there are a half dozen scenes of people that appear to have nothing in common. A young drug abuser living in a squat, a priest, an aristocrat, an educator, various people all seemingly unconnected, some even living in other countries. Bit by bit, as our dectives hunt and find clues to the identity of our victim, it becomes clearer that these people may somehow be connected; if not to each other, then to the victim.

The main two stars are Nicola Walker as DCI Cassie Stuart the head of the squad (Series 1-4. Series 5. Sinéad Keenan replaces Walker) and Sanjeev Bhaskar as DS Sunny Kahn her right hand man. And they have excellent chemistry. The writing is excellent and each member of the squad are competent, dedicated police officers and go about their job developing clues to determine who these bones are, and what happened to them.

In each episode we learn a bit more about the victim and the people that were introduced in the first 1 or 2 episodes.

I highly recommend this series if you're looking for a good police procedural that is competently done, well acted and well directed.

My Take – Worth a watch!

Cheers till next time😊!