Grantchester (TV series, Season 1, 2; 2014)
An interesting depiction of a Man of God who seems more like a sceptic. He realises that every action that one does has two ways of looking at it. There are no clear-cut answers to all the queries of life. He sometimes even wonders whether he could just give a straight answer to anything. At times, his belief is also shaken.
Reverend Sidney Chalmers is a vicar of a small church in a town adjacent to Cambridge. The young clergyman teams up with a policeman in this town to solve many of the murders that seem to be popping up very so often.
Between solving crimes and handling the church matters, Rev Chalmers has to deal with many of his inner demons. There is an unending saga of unrequited love between him and an old flame who is soon to be and later marries off to a man of her family’s choice.
The widow of the murdered that he solves in the first episode is romantically linked to the hero. Even this does not work out after he confesses to the lady of a weak moment when he succumbed to the pleasures of the flesh when he was drunk. Yes, our holy man drinks like a fish! He finds too many common grounds with whisky drinking buddy and comrade in solving crimes, the local police detective, Geordie.
The cast is made colourful with the inclusion of an assistant gay priest and a caretaker who speaks of her mind. The series is set in the early 1950s with a backdrop of jazz music and the slow-paced English countryside.
A recurring theme that emerges in the story is that of his past vocation, as a British officer in World War 2 and the brutal killings and injuries of his subordinates.
Most of the episodes end with excerpts of his weekly sermon at the pulpit. Like the reading of a tarot reader or a newspaper horoscope columnist, his speech seems to make a lot of sense to all the characters in their own way.
An interesting depiction of a Man of God who seems more like a sceptic. He realises that every action that one does has two ways of looking at it. There are no clear-cut answers to all the queries of life. He sometimes even wonders whether he could just give a straight answer to anything. At times, his belief is also shaken.
Reverend Sidney Chalmers is a vicar of a small church in a town adjacent to Cambridge. The young clergyman teams up with a policeman in this town to solve many of the murders that seem to be popping up very so often.
Between solving crimes and handling the church matters, Rev Chalmers has to deal with many of his inner demons. There is an unending saga of unrequited love between him and an old flame who is soon to be and later marries off to a man of her family’s choice.
The widow of the murdered that he solves in the first episode is romantically linked to the hero. Even this does not work out after he confesses to the lady of a weak moment when he succumbed to the pleasures of the flesh when he was drunk. Yes, our holy man drinks like a fish! He finds too many common grounds with whisky drinking buddy and comrade in solving crimes, the local police detective, Geordie.
The cast is made colourful with the inclusion of an assistant gay priest and a caretaker who speaks of her mind. The series is set in the early 1950s with a backdrop of jazz music and the slow-paced English countryside.
A recurring theme that emerges in the story is that of his past vocation, as a British officer in World War 2 and the brutal killings and injuries of his subordinates.
Most of the episodes end with excerpts of his weekly sermon at the pulpit. Like the reading of a tarot reader or a newspaper horoscope columnist, his speech seems to make a lot of sense to all the characters in their own way.
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