Grantchester Comes to a Close
I’m a fan of cozy mystery series, well British Mystery, and Grantchester (TV series) - Wikipedia has been a gem. It is a calm and cozy mystery series set in the 1950s / early 1960s Grantchester, England just outside Cambridge. It has been on PBS as part of PBS Mystery for 11 seasons. This has been a wonderful collaboration of a police detective who befriends the local parish priest (actually, a succession of them) and brings him in to help with the mysteries. The detective is played by Robson Green, who fits the role of small town detective well.
The Cambridge countryside plays a large part as do the small town’s parish members. The series splits its time between the police station and police work and the vicarage and its dealings. The characters in the ensemble were really good. The Anglican priest is always single and their most often is a love interest.
Having the detective and priest has been an interesting mix of bringing the two stereotypical sides of the detective seeing the worst of people (or not surprised by it) and the priest seeing the best in people. But, it didn’t take long in the 11 seasons for this to swap and drift from the norm. There was a lot of this series that felt like it was treading into the footsteps of Foyle’s War.
This has been a good follow on from the decades of the succession of Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour mystery series that have also wrapped.
I’m going to miss this calm and gentle series that pulls at the heart strings of humanity.