Grantchester (TV Series) Episode #7.1 (2022) User Reviews

Good start to the new series.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 11 March 2022]

Will and Geordie are back on the case, investigating the death of a man believed to be a vagrant, meanwhile Leonard opens the doors on his new cafe.

Great to see the show back on the screens, this was nice, light, easy viewing. We are of course in fantasy land once again, but it was easy viewing.

I thought Geordie was great here, they've definitely shaken things up for him, he's very much the focus here, he has a new boss, and is now living with his friend, fortunately the feud seems to be over.

I have to take issue with Will, for a vicar, he really is a stud, but he's definitely morphed into his predecessor, here with Maya. One wonders how he has time to do any of his professional duties.

Flawed, but fun, 7/10.

A Pretty Good Case

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 11 July 2022]

Geordie continues to do penance for his past acts, both to his wife and the police hierarchy. Still, he and Will manage to work on the case of a man found murdered in a British outhouse. Geordie has a new adversary in the new police captain, a good foil, him being a pompous know it all.

Episode 1

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 18 March 2023]

The seventh series and I had flashbacks of Sidney Chambers. Grantchester is heading towards a new decade.

So it is an era of jazz clubs and beatniks reading poetry in a cafe.

With a new hissable boss for Geordie. DCI Elliott Wallace has no time for old fashioned dinosaurs, he is into efficiencies and new methods. Looks like Geordie could be on his way out and he is still estranged from Cathy.

The mystery is the body of a dead drifter. Elliott assigns the case to the imbecile DC Peters and Elliott does not want civilians like Will involved. Peters just think that the drifter is a tramp.

It turns out that he was Lord Howard Fitzgerald, an aristocrat who had gone abroad for a number of years. The estate was managed by his two spinster sisters. One of whom is now engaged to marry her cousin. He just happens to be the next in line to inherit the title.

Will manages to stay on the case by pretending to offer pastoral care to his parishioners. Geordie is aghast by the slapdash approach to the investigation by Peters.

It is a solid start to the seventh series. There were several likely suspects.

A nice subplot with Will having a fling with a mystery lady. Although Leonard's coffee house is played more for laughs.

Massive Confusion

[deansscreen · 28 July 2022]

Great to see a new series of this fabulous show. But it would have been even greater to see an episode that a person of average brilliance could hope to understand. I think it would take that level of IQ to get the point of this episode. I saw it twice and still confess to being baffled. Too much coincidence, too many subtle hints, and too much left to the viewer's imagination to fill in the holes in the plot.

As a last comment, I hope that Leonard can carry as much of the story as he seems to have been assigned in this episode. His character is amusing and affecting and I hope the producers continue to give him something meaty to offer.

To repeat, it's great to see the series continue. I watch it more for atmosphere and character than I do for the action. It's rarely disappointing, especially in comparison with the insipid television invented by American networks. This show makes me wish my ancestors had never left England. I'd be soaking up atmosphere and watching a lot more of excellent TV.

We are done here

[rlda-38329 · 1/10 · 17 July 2022]

Making Leonard the plot line, is a mistake. Crime was always center, but no more. James Norton leaving didn't help...since his exit the stories, the plots have suffered. It was excellent, but time to say that's all.

Down the Rabbit hole with fellow traveller Endeavour

[ikanboy · 5/10 · 13 July 2022]

Now we have a lecherous Vicar. Great morality play! Also a new idiot boss, and guess who his fiancee is? Yup the Vicars latest bed mate. I feel sorry for Robson, looks like Endeavour's latest writers have joined the cast. Nordic Noir please don't copy British TV!

Plot hole

[DoctorStrabismus · 1/10 · 24 July 2022]

I could have put an entry in the 'Plot Holes' section of 'Goofs', but it would have been way too long. The entire plot was a very deep hole into which all these very good actors, who had been excellent in previous series, were forced to pour their efforts.

Maybe it was a black hole, because I think the era has now moved into the early 60s, which means Stephen Hawking is about to arrive in Cambridge as a research fellow at Caius!

Others here have commented that it's just like 'Endeavour', which like so many before it, went on for one series too long, and the last one was utterly awful. Is series 7 of 'Grantchester' going to deliver up a whole lot more such horrible trash? From the early absolute stereotype of the new Chief Inspector being an arrogant idiot (why is this always the case?) we got the feeling it would be bad, but never imagined it would be quite this bad.

In fact, with that plot, they could have popped down the corridor to the set of 'Doctor Who' and whistled up a dozen Daleks to come along and act it out. They couldn't have made it any worse.