Season 6
(there are two extra episodes this year for some reason…)
- S6 E1 Murder at Merries. Everybody’s on vacation! Host gets murdered.
- S6 E2 Adoption agency murder.
- S6 E3 Councilman murder
- S6 E4 American from the Air Base murder
- S6 E5 A armored car robbery and BIG trouble for Leonard
- S6 E6 Leonard’s in prison
- S6 E7 Murder in prison, Leonard helps unmask the chaplain
- S6 E8 New curate. Geordie has a rough streak, Burma flashbacks
E1 The first episode was quite fun! It seems that our entire beloved cast has gone on vacation together at a very English “fun park” called Merries! Maybe there was an explanation of why they’re on holiday together, but I missed it!
Cathy wears these well-tailored sun dresses and flouncy party dresses and 50’s bathing suits, and I am entranced by her fine self in them. The camp photographers is a repressed gay guy who snaps pics of Leonard and his beau. He’s gonna cause trouble.
E2 was the most feel-good episode on quite a while. Even the murder was more of an accident than a murder. Geordie has a great monologue on raising kids (he has 3 girls and a boy 🙂
There’s a complicated plot with the lower class guy stealing his son from the adoptive parents, and it actually works out really well for concerned in the moment. Who knows what it will look like 10 years from now, but it was great to have a happy ending now.
E3 was a bummer. The repressed gay dude from E1 rats out Leonard to the Archdeacon, who we all know has a stick up his butt and is super formal and proper. There are some really hateable people in this. Not the murderer oddly enough, he seemed like a nice guy.
E4 involved drag-racing Americans from the air base. And Will’s very cute half-sister. A pretty complicted plot, but Geordie made sure the spoiled brat American bad guy got punished.
E5 It was all fake! It was masterminded by a hot librarian, who roped in the armored car driver and a not too bright kid. It woulda been good clean fun excelt the kid killed an old lady excaping the scene.
As of the end of E5, Leonard is screwed. That little photographer weasel from E1 ratted him out to the dioceses, and they had a full-on moral-depravity trial. He’s had to move out of the parsonage. Everyone is quite upset.
E6 Bad time for Leonard. You can tell Geordie’s old Army is gonna be trouble, we just don’t know how yet.
E7 Leonard busts up a homo blackmail ring run by the Prison chaplin of all people! Geordie forgets his wedding anniversay and shows up falling-over drunk at the surprise party (thanks Army buddy!)
E8 Leonard good deed in E7 gets him early release!! Too bad for the other inmates, he was a great success running the prison church service replacing the corrupt chaplin.
Geordie gets sucked into helping his old war buddy, which turns into covering up a murder. Tough times for Geordie.
Cathie packs his suitcase and tells him to move out!
I’ve had enough of this vicar. He’s such a self-obsessed fuck. A really attractive self-obsessed fuck according to how the show is written, because all these really excellent, high-quality, very fine women keep falling for him and he keeps leading them on and getting a little nookine from them before deciding YET AGAIN that he’s really married to the church … Every season has at least one of these poor suckers, and I’m over it
Season 7
- S7 E1 Leonard opens his shop. New boss at the station. Will meets a hottie.
- S7 E2 Cathy and Margaret get drunk! Will gets laid (again).
- S7 E3 Dead vagrant in Leonard’s shop door.
- S7 E4 All the charity ladies a’re all getting blackmailed by the same guy.
- S7 E5 Murder at the old folks home (eek!)
- S7 E6 Another dead vagrant. Series ties up a lot of loose ends (for now…)
E1 Is a very convuluted tale of the heir to the estate promising the world to a local grl then going off to war and never coming back. Until now, when his sisters kill him to keep living on the estate.
Leonard opens his shop. New boss at the police station, he’s a pompous ass.
Will meets a hottie. She is elusive. Geordie can’t seems to stop being a thoughtless jerk to Cathy.
E2 The dead guy leads back to prostitutes. Will breaks up with his hottie.
Geordie sents Margaret from the station to spy on Cathy, and they hit it off. They have a lot in common, being oppressed working women who both know what a doofus Geordie can be.
Mrs C has cancer.
E3 The dead guy has a book of Tennyson poetry in his pocket. A traces back to the University and a student who hears voices. Geordie’s sister and son come to visit, Will hits it off with the boy. Mrs C won’t tell anybody about her cancer and starts acting weird(er).
E4 The charity ladies are great fun until we find their dark secret. The husband of one has seduced the other three and blackmails them to keep the sex going. Somebody had to kill the bastard. Geordie’s sister wants to bang Will, but in typical fashion he acts available until she gets excited then goes cold. I am SO over his routine.
E5 Murder at the old folks home! As a person living in a modern 21’st century old folks home, this one cut a little close for me. Not in a bad way, really! 🙂
E6 Anohther dead vagrant. The guy they put in the loony bin in E3 wasn’t the guy! It gets complicated after that. It real psycho-killer is the calm, nice next-door roommate from the college, who’s been talking to Will about becoming a priest. He ends up stabbing Will in the gut!
So the gang, who were all already at the hospital to root for Mrs C’s cancer recovery, add semi-recovered Mrs C to their number and troop down the hallway to root for Will to wake up from his stabbing.
He does wake up, and and makes a miraculous recovery to stagger out of the hospital to the train station to tell Geordie’s sister to not leave, she must stay because he loves her (eye-roll emoji!!)
Soin the last 10 miutes of the last episode of the season we have:
- Will gets stabbed
- We get the bad guy
- Mrs C recovers!
- Geordie moves back with Cathy (He was a fool to ever mess that up!)
- Since Geordie’s coming home and Will is still being a jackass, sister Bonnie is going to leave.
- Will miraculously recovers, so …
- He can jet to the train station to stop Bonnie
- Will and Bonnie get married., everybody’s there!
How’s that for tidying up?!