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Endeavour, Series 9

Endeavour, Series 9

by Russell Lewis (ITV, 2023)

DVD cover: “Endeavour, Series 9” by Russell Lewis (ITV, 2023)

A decent ending to a long-running programme. While much of the emotional impact stems from Matthew Slater’s score, Roger Allam (Thursday) and Anton Lesser (Superintendent Bright) have sublime moments conveying, respectively, the jaded and melancholic feelings of characters being overtaken by time.

Endeavour, Series 2

Endeavour, Series 2

by Russell Lewis (ITV, 2014)

Endeavour 2

Four more feature-length episodes. Shaun Evans and Roger Allam further establish their dynamic as the perceptive young Morse and his mentor Fred Thursday. Several of the murder mysteries, however, rely too heavily on stacked coincidences for their execution, obfuscation and eventual unravelling.

 

 

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