User Reviews

I always liked 'Lovejoy' and having visited the area a few times it is nice to see the places in the flesh, so to speak. There is the odd problem, but show me a perfect film or TV series!!! The first series was darker and sometimes you could pick out the actors finding there way, but when it gets going and every body knows every body its very good. One thing I like is the information about the antiques, having access to the www can confirm the facts, etc, they come out with. This episode and the first of the second (or third) is a bit sentimental with flash backs to the past and the characters been all chummy and sometimes been out of character... Its a shame they did not have 'Charlie Gimbet' in the last one, in fact he should have been in more. Also they should have had a 'Comedy Plod' in the whole series (ala 'Minder'), Police make great comedy! Well worth watching and shouting at the TV screen when Lovejoy makes a hash of his love life! He should have married Lady Jane...

There's a mystery plot involving Charlotte's dad, who gets konked on the head during a late-night walk. Tinker has announced he's quitting the antiques business to open a pub. Pointless Beth has accepted a job at Cambridge faking manuscripts. And Charlotte has been offered a job in New York.

That's more than enough for a finale. But this is a show for cat ladies and soccer moms, after all, so it has to get overly sentimental about Felsham Manor, Lovejoy has to take (yet another) shower, and he proposes to brittle Charlotte (thankfully, off screen).

And then, just before the barf point, the radiant Lady Felsham shows up with a big red bouffant. My gawd how this series has missed Phyllis Logan.

When Lady Jane and Charlotte meet, it's no contest. And I mean: No. Contest.

I never watched Lovejoy when it originally aired. I am binge-watching it now on my pirate stick. I suggest they should have written Charlotte out after Series 5, kept Charlie Gimbert, and thrown all the money at Phyllis Logan to return as Lady Jane.

I'll give the writers credit, though. Just as they reach barf point No. 2 they come up with a perfectly fitting ending. Still not a great episode, but at least they stuck the landing.