Warning: contains spoilers for Endeavour Series 9 Episode 1 ‘Prelude’.
It’s May 1972, six months after Morse finally accepted that he needed to seek help with his drink problem. He’s back at Castle Gate after taking the cure – sober, dapper and in control… until his offer to escort Miss Thursday to the next wedding in her diary meets the news that Joan’s next wedding will be her own. Our detective had spent the last series so lost in booze that he’d failed to detect Joan’s emerging romance with Jim Strange. Now, he faces being the best man at a ceremony where he may once have hoped to be the groom.
Coming in second was revealed as the – somewhat unsatisfactory – motive for the episode’s main murder: an orchestra leader poisoned by the best friend who’d lived in her shadow since they were teenagers. Whether it was the...
It’s May 1972, six months after Morse finally accepted that he needed to seek help with his drink problem. He’s back at Castle Gate after taking the cure – sober, dapper and in control… until his offer to escort Miss Thursday to the next wedding in her diary meets the news that Joan’s next wedding will be her own. Our detective had spent the last series so lost in booze that he’d failed to detect Joan’s emerging romance with Jim Strange. Now, he faces being the best man at a ceremony where he may once have hoped to be the groom.
Coming in second was revealed as the – somewhat unsatisfactory – motive for the episode’s main murder: an orchestra leader poisoned by the best friend who’d lived in her shadow since they were teenagers. Whether it was the...
- 2/26/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for Endeavour Series 8
It’s been happening gradually for years; the bright-eyed, teetotal young constable we met in Endeavour’s 1965-set pilot has been turning into the cynical misanthrope drinker we recognise as Inspector Morse. In Series 8, that transformation leapt ahead, taking Endeavour to the brink.
The previous year’s operatic love tragedy had left Endeavour grieving, bitter and alone. In Venice in December 1970, his lover Violetta had died in his arms after taking a bullet her husband Ludo intended for him. If it wasn’t for Fred Thursday, who’d rushed to Italy to save his bagman and shot Ludo, Morse would have died too. Back in Oxford, Endeavour drank to cope with the guilt. He drank alone, neglecting his work and disguising his hangovers by calling in sick.
Dci Thursday and Ch. Supt Bright saw through the lies and worried about their man. Fred told...
It’s been happening gradually for years; the bright-eyed, teetotal young constable we met in Endeavour’s 1965-set pilot has been turning into the cynical misanthrope drinker we recognise as Inspector Morse. In Series 8, that transformation leapt ahead, taking Endeavour to the brink.
The previous year’s operatic love tragedy had left Endeavour grieving, bitter and alone. In Venice in December 1970, his lover Violetta had died in his arms after taking a bullet her husband Ludo intended for him. If it wasn’t for Fred Thursday, who’d rushed to Italy to save his bagman and shot Ludo, Morse would have died too. Back in Oxford, Endeavour drank to cope with the guilt. He drank alone, neglecting his work and disguising his hangovers by calling in sick.
Dci Thursday and Ch. Supt Bright saw through the lies and worried about their man. Fred told...
- 2/26/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Joan Thursday and Endeavour Morse can’t end up together. That’s the unavoidable truth casting a pall over their every encounter. However much chemistry and yearning those two share, when Inspector Morse begins sixteen years down their timeline, Miss Thursday won’t be part of Morse’s life. Colin Dexter’s Inspector is destined to remain unmarried and to live out his days alone, in the very house that Endeavour fans saw him buy in the series six finale.
That house – which, like Morse of late, has been in a bit of a state and requires some work – is destined never to be a family home, just as Morse is destined never to be a husband or father. The destiny of Sara Vickers’ Joan Thursday however, is still to be decided. As Endeavour nears its ultimate conclusion (series nine is likely but yet to be announced), series eight has...
That house – which, like Morse of late, has been in a bit of a state and requires some work – is destined never to be a family home, just as Morse is destined never to be a husband or father. The destiny of Sara Vickers’ Joan Thursday however, is still to be decided. As Endeavour nears its ultimate conclusion (series nine is likely but yet to be announced), series eight has...
- 9/22/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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