Season 10
- S10 E1 Murder of the Easter Bunny!
- S10 E2 Murder among the Professors.
- S10 E3 Murder at the strip club!
- S10 E4 Murder at the orphanage
- S10 E5 Murder at the Police Station!
- S10 E6 Murder at the Fascist rally
- Season 11 in 2027!!!
E1 – The season starts with a community party again! This time it’s Easter, and the guy wearing an Easter bunny mask is killed!
It gets complicated – his new wife, his old wife, and his new wife’s old husband are all milling about.
Spoiler alert! The new wife thought she stabbed her asshole first husband (who kinda deserved it!) but the dudes had switched masks so she stabbed her beloved new husband… Harsh!
Also, Alphy meets a cutie at the Library! I think we will be seeing a lot of her, and just calling her “the librarian” will get old … so her name is Margaret.
E2 – High tension in the lecture hall. Two professors are competing on a project, and they hate each other’s guts.
The cute lab assistant for one of them is murdered. The old white guys all think the Indian professor did it. Everyone else thinks the other (white, pretty obnoxious) professor did it. Spoiler alert, neither actually did it! But their unhealthy competition, was the second order reason the nice girl was killed by some other hapless cog of the machine. So there you go!
Alphy’s cutie, Margaret turns out to be the daughter of the Bishop! No one saw THAT coming! An epochally uncomfortable scene ensues, and absolutely nobody is happy about how it turns out. The season is young however. 🙂
E3 – This was a fun episode! Alphy and Margaret decide to try again. She comes over for dinner. The first problem is getting Mrs C to leave them alone and go home.
The stingy, unpleasant proprietor of a local strip club has slumped over dead at her table!
The visualization of what an early 60’s British college town strip club is like is worth the price of admission to this episode!
For reasons too complicated to explain, everybody from the murder scene ends up at the vicarage where the young couple was still trying to have a quiet, intimate dinner! Along with the strippers and the doorman and Geordie and Larry there was the inevitable Mrs C and for some reason Leonard, who’s have a tough time this season.
And finally there was the annoying curate from the next town over who almost stole Alphy’s job last season. He turns out to have been obsessed with one of the dancers – the skinny white one.
For this hour, I was pretty sweet on the other dancer, a generously proportioned brown lady who I thought was just swell! For about five minutes late in the episode we were made to think she was the murderer, but I am happy to report that she was not!
Leonard may have a drinking problem. Geordies 10 year-old son is acting like he may be gay(!) Geordie is absolutely NOT emotionally able to handle this.
E4 – We learn that Alphy is a foundling, an orphan. His story of having a middle class upbringing in Rumsford is bogus, who he wishes he was! He was raised at the Rumsford Orphanage.
While he is back visiting the kindly old curate who was his de facto dad back in the day, an orphan kid of right now dies in mysterious circumstances at the orphanage. Time to call Geordie in to help even though it’s not strictly his jurisdiction.
No Margaret this week!
E5 – This one opens with Leonard getting drunk as a skunk at the pub. He gets obnoxious and throws a drink on Larry and gets himself arrested.
At the station there’s a lot of interaction with the jailer. The Chekhov’s gun rule comes true again, because 10 minutes later that jailer is the body of the week! He is found dead on the floor of Leonard’s cell!
This episode spends a lot of time with BOTH of my favorite women of this series – hooray!!!
Geordie’s wife Cathy rules the first half and Miss Scott rules the second. I am pretty much mesmerized by both of them when ever they appear on the screen.
In the first half, Cathy is hanging out with Mrs C helping her get Leonard sorted out. The two of them are together because they are hatching a plan to show the men how it’s done and start their own dress shop. Cathy shows the tiniest hint of boob in the proper English dress they have her wearing this week, and it’s got me kinda hot and bothered 🙂
In the seond half of the show, Cathy has gone home, Now Larry and Miss Scott take center stage!
Turns out Larry has proposed to her AGAIN, and she has turned him down again! He lashes out and says mean things to her. He makes Miss Scott cry if you can believe anyone would be capable of such a thing! In the last part we have a lot of close-ups of Miss Scott pondering her future. She looks real good in close-up.
The upshot is that she decides that she does like Larry enough to marry him, but does NOT want to quit her job to stay home and raise a brood of kids that she doesn’t want to have anyway.
And in that society at that time I don’t thing could keep her job if she was married.
She finally accepts by the end of the episode.
They of course plan to elope. Sneak out in the middle of a Tuesday, get a civil marriage at the courthouse and be back to work before anybody notices.
Geordie of course sniffs that out and so of course they they end up getting married by Alphy in a lovely ceremony at the Grantchester church, attended by all our favorite characters. Yay!
E6 Georgie has on his own tracked down Alphy’s (possible) mother, and told everyone BUT Alphy. That last part doesn’t last long, since everybody blabs everything to everybody in Grantchester. He’s pretty pissed at Geordie.
Daniel’s mom visits, and surprise, she’s a terrible homophobe, who says terrible things to Leonard. Daniel says he never wants to see her again … oh well.
The dress shop is a smashing success. Given that they had the successful grand opening on the last week of the season, we get to carry that happy image with us until whenever in 2027 they release the last season! 🙂
Season 10 is the current season. The internet says that in 2027 we will get the 11th and final season!