User Reviews

*Spoilers* Last season we're lead to believe that the church and his parish are so important to Sydney that he can bring himself to leave them so he can marry the love of his life Amanda. But a blink later not only is over his heartbreak, he decides to leave not only the church and parish, but his entire country for a woman he met a week ago? I call BS. I understand having to write James Norton out of the show, but this plot was exceptionally lazy. I give up on Grantchester.

I have loved this show since the beginning and knew that it was inevitable that James Norton would leave. I just thought that his final show would have everyone in floods, but the writing wasn't up to the quality of the rest of the series.

I thought it was pretty cool that they tackled civil rights. Too bad they bungled it by hiring British actors whose American southern accents are worse than Kevin Spacey's. The resolution of the first mystery was very hollow. A professor was enraged that his wife danced with a black man THAT HE INVITED TO ENGLAND?

Then suddenly Sydney's alcohol use is at a crisis level. Just as suddenly, he forgets how he pined for Amanda, falls in love at first sight and runs off to Alabama, of all places. Did he know ANYTHING about Alabama? Obviously not.

It ends with another mystery being solved via a coincidence that was too big to ignore, the clue being a necklace appearing in a photo.

I hope the rest of the series gets better. The new vicar has possibilities, but not the gravitas of James Norton, nor the chemistry with Geordie. I hate to see this show stick around in decline. Pull the plug if you can't do better than this episode..

I could barely watch this episode all the way through - in fact, I haven't finished it yet. It was that bad. Sidney suddenly decides he's in love with another woman - a woman he just met? Sorry - I totally just lost all respect for him. The old Sydney would never get over Amanda. Sleep with a random person, fine - but not love another woman. Not to mention the whole episode is totally rehashed content. Way too long. It was dreadful. Update - I finally finished this stupid episode and it's even WORSE than I thought. Sydney wants to leave Grantchester to go be with this woman (with whom he has zero chemistry) from the States that he just met. This is the same Sydney that chose the church over Amanda after three agonizing seasons? So maddening. So frustrating. So disappointing. What on earth are these writers thinking? If they need to write James out of the script, have him leave to go find Amanda. That would at least be satisfying as a love story. I'm not sure if I'll watch the following episodes. so sad.

As Dad would say, the script was as stiff as a varnished eel. Nothing rang true. But I knew the thing was doomed when the very first scene was a fence-jumping chase scene, sadly reminiscent of Hot Fuzz. All the details are ghastly. The accents, the absurdity, the hideous dessication of our favorite characters. Lord, what crap.

How dare a man of the cloth disclose a confidence. When one upholds his faith another tears it down. Does he suddenly forget that his breach of confidence cost a man his life. The cop isn't a good man at all. He lies and cheats. This show disgusts me.

And for the love of god could these British shows stop using Brit's with bad accents in roles of Americans.

Listening to the bad southern accents and the dialog handled in such a ham-handed "racially correct" way was just simply annoying.