Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

stratus_phere The premise for the show is intriguing. I was hoping it would be like Father Brown, or like some of the Agatha Christie series. But it's not. This show can put you in a rage sometimes, and can be vexing and unsatisfying.It does cover the basic murder/mystery style, with a vicar and a detective teaming up. But the subject matter is far to heavy for my taste. In just a few shows it deals with racism, alcoholism, spousal abuse, homosexuality and how it was treated as a crime, pedophilia (with a 15 year old girl) and teenage pregnancy, and the church's covering up of crimes committed by their vicars.Another problem is that it looks at these issues with a modern eye. It stirs up the pot of disharmony by bringing up every social injustice the writer can think of. It's based on modern books by James Runcie, and I don't know how accurate the show is since I've never read the books. But that problem is common for period pieces written long after the story's time-frame. The author can't really get into the mindset of 1950's villagers.The final problem I'll mention is the lack of satisfaction not only throughout the show but at the endings. During the show, you can feel your blood pressure rising as the sometimes snarky, sometimes cruel people unveil themselves while the plot unfolds. And they never get any sort of comeuppance. They are allowed to be just as rude and vicious as they can be, with no hope of remorse. Then at the end, things are not brought to a happy ending. They usually have some aspect of the situation left in an unsavory state.It's not like there are no good blueprints for doing this. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Father Brown, etc, etc. So to do this in such a high-handed fashion is a bit off-putting.

hello-41679 For a vicar, Sidney drinks A LOT, I mean practically half the scenes in each episode and when he's not drunk, he's chain smoking. Despite this, I found his character mostly likable ... But of course, liberal Hollywood (or liberal British media in this case) couldn't help but inject 2017 social justice into a historical series. First the gay characters. I don't have anything against gays but how many gay story lines and characters can there possibly be in a small English village during the 1950s? Keep in mind this is a vicarage. A lot apparently. Even one of the vicars is gay. Then the writers had to include plenty of interracial romances. It's like a law in the UK, I think. Every British show has to have at least one (or many) interracial relationships in order to meet their diversity quota. It doesn't matter if the series took place almost 70 years ago. That's what annoys me, how unrealistic the show is. And the obvious modern PC agenda. I think, for me, I stopped liking Sidney when he cheated on Hildegard with a complete stranger. He's already an alcoholic / chain smoker. Now he can add cheater to the list. This poor woman left her country and returned to England to be with him, despite his modest salary. He doesn't even have his own place or own a car. He rides a bicycle. Yet she wanted him. And he cheats on her! A little too morally corrupt for a vicar in my opinion. Mediocre at best.

skipperkd Clerical detective series have been done before, and done better, as with Cadfael, Father Brown, Father Dowling, etc. etc. Grantchester is a mixed bag. I like Inspector Keating -- and his wife and kids -- but the portrayal of the vicar Sidney Chambers is problematic for me -- he comes across as a man doing everything BUT his clerical duties, except for the gratuitous little sermon at the end of each episode. The roles of vicar and hobby- detective are poorly integrated. Chambers is a kind man, but he appears to be a vicar who would far rather be solving crimes than serving his flock and saving souls, habitually leaving his co-worker Leonard to handle his clerical duties. Chambers doesn't just help Inspector Keating a little, he becomes completely engrossed in the crime, to the point of (needlessly) walking out of church during a children's Christmas presentation. Furthermore, the vicar lacks an appreciation of the sanctity of the confession, as well as the need for basic trust and confidentiality with his parishioners. He actually uses confession and trust as a tool to solve crimes. I am surprised he isn't defrocked. The episodes with the youth, Gary, who spoke privately with the vicar, comes to mind, for one example. (By the way, his church pews are never full, and rarely half-full. Is this consistent with post-war England? Maybe.)In the first episode I quite liked the luscious vicar, Mr. Chambers, but after watching the first two seasons, I was willing to stop there. I grew quite tired of his boozing, smoking, and jazz. In the TV series, his character gradually comes across as increasingly irresponsible and self-indulgent, rather than broody-sexy. As he cavorts around with various women, he appears foolhardy, careless of his reputation, and somewhat stupid, even (recklessly boozing it up in a woman's bedroom, while she is half-dressed, while suspecting she might be a killer). As a vicar, he is anachronistic for the time period. I am not crazy about his main love interest, Amanda, even though I sympathize with her. I have read that in the books her characterization was handled better, but the television series lacks something. I love the stern but soft-hearted housekeeper, Mrs. Maguire (what the dickens!?!) and the humble vicar Leonard, who struggles with timidity and homosexuality. They make the show. Mrs. Maguire is the foil to Chambers, and Leonard's character engenders more sympathy than does the vicar Chambers.For non-clerical period British detective series, my current top favorite is the new Endeavor series, portraying a young constable Morse, before he became the sometimes arrogant and unlikable Inspector Morse -- apparently a hit series back in its day. Also, I quite enjoyed the George Gentry series, which is set in Manchester (or Newcastle?) in the 1960s. Agatha Christie's Marple series is quite good, too. I also highly recommend the Vera (Stanhope) series, and the Shetland series, but they are set in the 21st century, with cell phones and computers (both series were based on books by Anne Cleeves). For a British crime-detective series that focuses more on the judicial court proceedings, I like Kavanaugh, QC.

jogliore-267-117475 I know this series takes place during the 50's but why have all the smoking? Do the producers and directors not know of the health issues that smoking causes? The writing is superb as well as the acting. What spoils it is the constant smoking. What lesson does it teach to young viewers? That once a crisis point is reached you reach for a cigarette? The actors are shortening their lives by smoking