Grantchester (TV Series) Episode #6.3 (2021) User Reviews

A very good watch.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 18 September 2021]

The local elections are happening, and campaigning is in full flow, The Tory candidate is offering much, The Labour candidate has recently lost her husband. Leonard has questions to answer.

This was very good actually, I won't make the case again about liberal attitudes at the time, or rather lack of, forget all that, good story, well acted, it feels like we're back to some of Grantchester's earlier conflicts.

A little political propaganda here? The very idea of it.

The biggest change around has surely been in Geordie, he's the one here that has Leonard's interests at heart, more so it seems than Will, who has a degree of naivity.

It's nice to see Mrs C back with her typical face, the one that's sucked on a multitude of lemons.

I adore Rebecca Front, and dare I say it, she was a cut above, her acting is something to enjoy.

Best of the series so far I thought, 8/10.

Great Quotes

[burrowssl · 9/10 · 18 October 2021]

BTW PBS viewers in Canada and the States are about a month behind on aired episodes.

You could tell Richard Cookson wrote this one. Potential councillor Reeny McArthur (Rebecca Front) had the two best ones: "war is one awful choice after another" "you can't rock the boat if they push you out of it"

I know it's only fiction, but.....

[kristhebass · 9/10 · 12 December 2023]

I still get angry when I see how Leonard, well played by Al Weaver, is demonized by his sexuality. Not just because it was an antiquated law that belonged in another era but because only men could be prosecuted for it. Queen Victoria deemed it that women couldn't possibly. And they scream for sexual equality, where was it back in the day?

Then there is the unnecessary inclusion of a non white archbishop, crammed in to satisfy diversity, there wasn't one for over 3 decades. Grantchester is set in the leafy Cambridge suburb of the fifties and not the eighties is simply wrong. It's a continuing error that satisfies no one.

A powerful episode that sees Will torn between his beliefs and what the church, in the guise of the out of place Archdeacon, wants shim to say.

I know it's only fiction but I know this kind of injustice happened and I still get angry.

So Many Conflicts

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 25 October 2021]

There is the usual weaving of issues here. We continue to see the bind that Leonard is in. He has to be true to himself and his God and recognize that there are laws of which he is quite aware. Persecution in some form continues. Then there is the case of a local politician and his opponent in an upcoming election. He is a snarky devil. But what makes a difference is the case of drowned man from a previous episode who it is assumed committed suicide. Striking episode.

A Bit of Reality

[Warin_West-El · 6/10 · 15 June 2023]

Having presented episode after episode of what was clearly leftist propaganda, a bit of reality finally appeared in this story. Whether Leonard was a homosexual or not was really superfluous. The issue was that he was a member of the church clergy but failed to exercise stringent discipline.

If he had been careful, none of what occurred this episode would have happened. Leonard had the maturity of a little boy, which is why Mrs. Chapman called him her "little boy."

Burning the candle at both ends, Leonard tried to live in a state of hypocrisy while simultaneously throwing caution to the wind. So it was only a matter of time before he got burned. Fortunately, he opted to protect the people who tried to help him. The irony is, in order to do that, he lied during his confession. Thus Leonard began with a lie and ended with a lie.

Episode 6.3

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 7 March 2022]

The suicide of a local parish Councillor has led to a by election.

Derek McArthur was a divisive politician. His widow Reeny is standing in his place. There is also a novelist Robert Waterhouse in tow. All three worked together during the war relating to espionage.

The Tory candidate wants to tear down red tape, planning regulations and bring back morality. He neglects to mention that he has a cousin who is a big landowner who has had planning permission previously refused by Derek McArthur.

Only for Geordie and Will believe that Derek McArthur was murdered.

Will is also under pressure to provide Leonard with an alibi. Leonard is questioned for having slept with another man during the trip to the holiday camp.

I was glad Geordie told Will that this situation would not have arose, if someone just told him that Leonard was being blackmailed.

Now just about everyone in Grantchester knows that Leonard is being interviewed by the police.

I thought this was a weak episode. Without wanting to sound like those ex military types who ramble on IMDB about all the technical things that were wrong in the war movie they just watched.

As a former councillor, I was puzzled just how much power a newly elected councillor thought he was going to have. The Tory thought he could ride roughshod over the planning committee. It was a parish by election not a parliamentary one!

With a murder investigation going on. Apart from Geordie, the rest of the police were more concerned whether the curate was gay or not.

Even the murder part of it did not feel well plotted.