Anyone else hate-watching Grantchester?

Love Grantchester. In New York on WNET-13 Sundays at 9:00 ... Mondays at 8:00 on WLIW-21.

Looks like they pulled the plug.

Grantchester to end after season 11.

I’m going to miss it.

I miss James Norton.

I wanted to see him and Robson Green in the nude.

Mercy killing.

I find Rishi Nair extremely sexy, more so than Norton or the guy between those two.

^^^Totally yummy man-I wanna pull his hair while fucking the Vicar^^^

I faded out after James Norton left.

I hope poppa Robson Greene finds another good series soon.

I actually thought the mysteries were better than usual this season, and some adult plotting entered the story (Robson Green dealing with his nelly little boy).

⬆️ and the most unfortunate looking gay, Leonard, becoming a bitter, old, drunken queen.

Alfie grew up in an orphanage seems like an odd turn. To accomplish it they had to turn him into a liar. Why would he hide his past? He obviously had a happy time there. As a clergyman, he’s supposed to be sophisticated in dealing with issues like shame and truthfulness.

Do people who have never had a drinking problem suddenly become drunks late in life? Another contrived plot.

And if Alfie and the nurse grew up together, they would not have interacted as strangers. “I don’t think you remembered me?” “Of course I did, I was just treating you like a stranger for the sake of the viewers at home. I want my having lived here to be a “big reveal” 30 minutes in.”

I really don’t like shows that create fake drama.

You do realize that all shows create "fake drama"?

I watched the first show of the season. I hated it so much I won't even hate-watch it. There were too many people to keep track of.

I did like Geordie asking Leonard about when did he know he was gay, or whatever he said. It was kind of sweet.

But when Sunday rolled around last week I watched something else.

[quote] You do realize that all shows create "fake drama"?

No. Some shows create real drama. THAT is the point.

I remember way back when I wanted to get into it, I was hoping to watch what they call now cozy mysteries. But then I realized that they tried to handle very modern topics. It just didn't feel right to me. I know that it is fiction and that novels, TV shows and movies handle modern problems in all types of plots and all kinds of periods. But in Grantchester it felt always off to me. Not sure why Grantchester did it wrong for me while I have no problem watching Bridgerton.

Granchester was one of those shows that I really enjoyed watching the first season.

I binged that season, then never got the inspiration to watch it again. James Norton looked so handsome that season.

Guess I thought episode 3 was the first episode of the season. I still hated it.

Haven’t seen this current season, but I thought the story arc which resulted in Mrs. Maguire/Chapman accepting Leonard was rather touching.

I love watching this show and making fun of it, and Leonard becoming the loud, sloppy town drunk as soon as Daniel goes out of town for more than a few days is pretty hilarious.

^^^Let's all be Honest here; we've all have become "LEONARDS" at least once in our lives^^^

I was hoping Leonard would go to the Tearoom-swallow some loads!!

Slightly off topic but I think James Norton is HOT AS FUCK.

All 3 Vicars were SMOKING HOT!!

And all three with a burning desire to solve mysteries and hang out with Geordie and Leonard.

What a happy coincidence.

I’m betting we never hear another word about Leonard’s drinking problem.

What happened to Mrs. C’s husband? He could get a bank loan. Did he die?

Love this series. But in what universe does an English village in the 1950s get three incredibly good-looking vicars in a row let alone one?

The lover boy angle is not super-interesting.

I'm just speculating, but could there be a connection between PBS (with Masterpiece) getting underfunded and Grantchester getting canceled?

Someone (an old, bitchy queen perhaps?) on the production/dressing staff hates women... the wigs on Cathy and the one-armed woman who works with Geordie are, in a word, A-W-F-U-L.

They do not look like real hair in any way, shape, or form. I thnk Mrs. C's hair is natural and styled appropriately, but the others? Jesus H Christ they terrible and completely distracting.

[quote] All 3 Vicars were SMOKING HOT!!

They're all hot but the first one was the hottest, the second was second hottest, and this most recent one is, of course, third hottest.

R27 Unlikely. Those episodes have already been shown in the UK, I think, and were in the can well before the new regime started to swing its axe at PBS funding.

Ok. That episode was pretty good.

Last night’s? I suppose the whole “women couldn’t get a bank loan without a male relative’s signature” is a good reminder of the past which existed into the 70s I believe. Credit cards, mortgages, loans all needed a man’s signature. MAGA nitwits seem to think that was the golden age.

Is it realistic of Leonard to think in 1962 that Daniel would comfortably come out to his family and accept them as a couple?

The early 1960s were still a closeted era. There were a lot bar raids and having your name in the paper in connection with them killed your job and residence. Coming out to your family was usually a disaster. Although the Stonewall riots got all the press as the beginning of the Gay rights movement, there were some events before that.

I watched the first season strictly for the male eye candy but the bad writing drove me away.

That was about the time that British TV got woke and every show, even if it was historical, had to contain contemporary social behavour and situations...even when and where it made little to no sense.

I always thought trembling, nebbish Leonard as the "font of Christ-like wisdom" was a bit much.

We prefer Muscular Christianity.

Poor Leonard. The season he went to prison was brutal.