Hacker Cinema
Endeavour
2013 · TV series · 90 min episodes · 9 seasons
Created by Russell Lewis
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
4 positive2 neutralfrom 6 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
6 comments on Hacker News
This might have been an inspiration for season 5 episode 5 of Endeavour (2018).
British TV is doing _great_ in the streaming era: black mirror, adolescence, peaky blinders, the crown, call the midwife, derry girls, downtown abbey; and so many great police procedurals: line of duty, endeavour, the bay, Sherlock, grace; even those Harlan coben miniserieses - the ones with at least one absurd plot twist per episode - are great fun!
While I’ll be among the first to moan that we’ll never see another red dwarf, python, tinker tailor/smiley’s people, yes minister, father ted [0] .. British tv is still producing great stuff.
It’s the “bureaucrats” in the bbc who are under threat from streaming. I’m not losing sleep!
[0] made in Britain; simply could not have been made in Ireland as was.
The Endeavour episode 'Apollo' (s6e2) takes place in a studio much like the Andersons' - recommended
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/endeavour-apollo-moon-rangers-studio-gerry-anderson-thunderbirds-stingray-supermarionation/
Same here. The first season was fine, but literally every character is a spiteful grating moron. Couldn't really finish the second season. Tried the first episode of Season 3 to see if it had changed, but nope, they've just dialed it upto 11 now :/
OTOH if anyone is looking for a watchable thriller/detective show set in UK, I would recommend Endeavour.
I recall the Covered Market becoming a bus station in one Endeavour episode.
>To go a bit on a tangent: I love TV shows where it really is shot where it is set, and the location is a big part of the show.
The Inspector Morse series[0] based on Colin Dexter's[1] novels is shot in and around Oxford, UK and is pretty darn good.
The follow-ons (Lewis[2] and Endeavour[3]) are also pretty good too.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries[4] is also pretty good and is shot mostly on location, although the protagonist is something of a whiny little bitch. The same can be said for DCI Banks[5].
That said, Vera[6] and Y Gwyll[7] (Hinterland) are both good too, although the police force in Vera is a fictional fictional organization and is shot in various places in the north of England.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Morse_(TV_series)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Dexter
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_(TV_series)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour_(TV_series)
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspector_Lynley_Mysteries
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI_Banks
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_(TV_series)
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland_(TV_series)