It was nice to see Honeysuckle Weeks in a supporting role (she played Samantha Stewart in “Foyle’s War”). Lewis and Laura Hobson talk about taking a long vacation in New Zealand together. On a personal level, Hathaway learns more about his father and tries to accept his father’s condition. Alchemic images and unfamiliar tattoos lead the detectives to a cryptic group who may be responsible for several murders. In “Magnum Opus,” an Oxford college dean is found beaten to death in the woods after an argument about arcane religious practices. The clever mystery involves a body is a well and the death of a young artist/taxidermist. Lewis, meanwhile, is insecure about his position as consultant and wants to demonstrate his value to new supervisor Joe Moody.
We empathize with Hathaway’s guilt and sadness over his father’s condition and their lost time together. In the first 90-minute episode, entitled “One for Sorrow,” we meet Hathaway’s father, who is suffering from dementia, and Hathaway’s over-bearing, over-burdened sister. The three new and engrossing episodes of “Inspector Lewis” live up to the high level of entertainment we have come to expect from the series. The picturesque location shots of Oxford are always a pleasure. Former Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent has been replaced by the intrusive and overbearing Chief Superintendent Joe Moody (Steve Toussaint). Laura Hobson (Claire Holman) and the even-tempered and competent Detective Sergeant Lizzie Maddox (Angela Griffin) who is Hathaway’s new partner.
The supporting cast brightens up the programs considerably, particularly, Lewis’ love interest, forensic pathologist Dr. After a break in the “Lewis” series, Hathaway was promoted to Inspector and a temporarily retired Lewis was called back as a consultant to work with Hathaway. The growing respect and fondness these very different inspectors share has added much depth and interest to the programs. seasons of “Lewis” have been engaging and absorbing, boosted by skillful writing, acting and direction, and most importantly, by Lewis’ sidekick cum partner, the younger, cooler, cerebral Cambridge graduate, James Hathaway (Laurence Fox).
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No longer the optimistic faithful subordinate, in this series Lewis is portrayed as a mature, world-weary, old-school but often intuitive professional. We learned that Lewis’ wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident in the interim years between the two shows. Kevin Whately returned to television in 2006 as Inspector Lewis in an eponymous series set five years after Morse’s death. Although “Endeavor” has had its high moments, particularly this season, the late 1960s era does seem stilted at times.
Three seasons have been aired and a fourth one is being filmed. And do expect most of the characters to be white intellectuals.Īn uneven third series, “Endeavour” starring Shaun Evans, the prequel to the “Inspector Morse” series, re-visits young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse of the Oxford City Police CID as he hones his deductive powers in the 1960s. Just don’t expect 21st century picture and sound clarity. The original 33 “Morse” episodes were based on novels and short stories by Colin Dexter, the award-winning writer and crossword champion, and can still be found on various PBS channels and other media outlets. “Inspector Morse” first aired on Masterpiece Mystery in 1988 and ended with the death of the Morse character in 2001. Inspector Morse, the reclusive, erudite loner was amusingly counterbalanced by family-man Lewis whose working-class, northern English background was diametrically opposite to Morse’s solitary intellectual life. The very final three-episode season of “Inspector Lewis,” premiering Sunday, Augon PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery, is a sad hail and farewell to the appealing characters and ingenious plot puzzles that began with Oxfordshire’s Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (John Thaw, 1942-2002) and his then Sergeant Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately).