Season 4
YouTube TV let me down. I get three different PBS channels, and between them, none showed S4 E1 and S4 E2 within the last year?? What’s the world coming to? Fortunately I will have this blog post to remind me which ones I missed.
- S4 E1 missing
- S4 E2 missing
- S4 E3 Murder at the Computer Lab! New vicar shows up.
- S4 E4 Murder at the Mennonites. More awful people making each other miserable.
- S4 E5 New vicar (Will) is from the upper class! We spend an episode at their lovely-but decaying house in the country because a murder.
- S4 E6 The Cathy situation gets sorted. This week’s body is a kid from Esme’s school. Teddy Boys are involved. I had to look them up!
Sydney is long gone. I really need S4 E1 and S4 E2 to get the deets on how it went down. The new guy is named Will.
Previous vicar Sydney listened to Sidney Bechet and was pictured madly pedalling his bicycle everywhere. New vicar Will tinkers with his noisy motorbike and listens to loud rock and roll. So the times they are a changing!
Geordie, who can’t even talk to his wife about her getting hit on at work is having a hard time with it all.
E3 has so much unhappiness about gayness. The episode is gay from top to bottom! Geordie, who can an a-hole sometimes, felt compelled to expose a married guy’s gay affair with the guy who turned up dead. The two women at the lab were having a lesbian affair, which seemed to throw everybody off WAY more than all the male affairs that seem to pop up everywhere.
Then to top off the theme of spousal unhappiness, Cathy gets nearly raped by her boss at the department store (guess he’s just a classic British twit and not gay after all!). Everybody (including her and Geordie) are too repressed to do anything about it.
In a nice little reminder of how much the 1950’s sucked for women, Cathy finally gets up the courage tell her big boss about the predatory actions of her immediate boss, and his response is to tell her the guy is a very valuable employee so she wants to keep her job she should be a team player and suck it up and let him molest her! I am a huge Cathy fan, and seeing these rotten middle-aged men make her sad every day was really quite upsetting to me.
Ah, E6 tidied up all the Cathy situation. Cathy and Mrs C conspired to get her asshole boss fired. He SO deserved it!!!
Season 5
- S5 E1 College girl found dead in the pond. Will’s mom has issues.
- S5 E2 Hit and run right in from of Geordie. Cathy’s scary mother visits.
- S5 E3 Murdered projectionist. Fallout from the partition of India!
- S5 E4 Murdered streaker (on LSD!) Cathy’s mom gets scarier.
- S5 E5 Trouble at Will’s gym. Ellie is worth a thousand Wills.
- S5 E6 Murder at the convent. Leonard’s dad comes.
This season started out more fun than last, but ended in a morass of terrible things as always.
A waiter from the E1 party turns out to be around for the season, Will hooks him up with his gym. Surprise, that turns out badly also.
Will starts up a thing with Ellie, the hard-charging reporter who I like a lot!
Spoiler alert: He does his usual thing by leads her on, they noodle around a bit then he makes her sad by deciding to stick with Jesus not her.
So annoying….
A theme this season seens to be unfortunate relatives. Leonard’s dad visits and makes his life miserable for an episode. Cathy’s mom has a full-on psychotic episode and has to be taken away. Will’s mom is so unhappy she’s about to marry a real flamer by the end of the season. Why do we even bother with relatives? 🙂
E5 was upsetting to me. Sometimes this series seems as if it were plotted by somebody not trying very hard. This boxing gym guy had been Will best friend and mentor for years. Now it turns out he’s been molesting boys for years also, and it just doesn’t scan for me. If he was that guy, Will shoulda picked it up years ago. I’m just not buying it!
E6 was kinda cool. Will bangs the fake nun! Maybe now he’s be able to not be a jackass to Ellie!