IslandGuru Who payed the critics

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

hello-41679 For a vicar, Sidney drinks A LOT, I mean practically half the scenes in each episode and when he's not drunk, he's chain smoking. Despite this, I found his character mostly likable ... But of course, liberal Hollywood (or liberal British media in this case) couldn't help but inject 2017 social justice into a historical series. First the gay characters. I don't have anything against gays but how many gay story lines and characters can there possibly be in a small English village during the 1950s? Keep in mind this is a vicarage. A lot apparently. Even one of the vicars is gay. Then the writers had to include plenty of interracial romances. It's like a law in the UK, I think. Every British show has to have at least one (or many) interracial relationships in order to meet their diversity quota. It doesn't matter if the series took place almost 70 years ago. That's what annoys me, how unrealistic the show is. And the obvious modern PC agenda. I think, for me, I stopped liking Sidney when he cheated on Hildegard with a complete stranger. He's already an alcoholic / chain smoker. Now he can add cheater to the list. This poor woman left her country and returned to England to be with him, despite his modest salary. He doesn't even have his own place or own a car. He rides a bicycle. Yet she wanted him. And he cheats on her! A little too morally corrupt for a vicar in my opinion. Mediocre at best.

mitya_ilx I very much enjoyed seasons 1 and 2 - another "cozy" mystery series, gorgeously filmed and well-acted. The mysteries themselves are self-contained from episode to episode, while character development story arcs take place in the background to tie things together. As other reviewers have noted, the writers have made hero Sidney Chambers remarkably liberal and modern in his views. Perhaps in 1953 there were small-town vicars with such attitudes, but after a while it feels unrealistic. For whatever reason, season 3 fell flat for me, to the extent I thought they might have changed writers. Perhaps it's the peaking of a couple of those story arcs in season 2, but I found that I no longer cared very much about the characters, while the mysteries began to feel secondary to the characters' stories. I'm unlikely to come back for season 4.

benbrae76 Change the actors, change the directors, change the dialogue, change the plots, indeed change the screenwriters, liven up the action, and do some proper research on the period, and this programme may just work. As it is, it doesn't, at least not for me. I just can't ignore the fact that this is not how things were in the 1950s, which they weren't.The 1950s decade was in reality quite an exciting one. The war was over, although there were still wars about (but then there always are) and the UK was slowly getting back on its feet. Not everything was perfect, but neither is everything perfect today, far from it. The young were having their say in no uncertain terms and it was the era of the Teddy Boys and that of cool jazz and the birth of rock'n'roll. Very little of this is evident in Grantchester, which appears to be just another dreary soap with a murder thrown in to keep it in the mystery genre. Even a whisky-drinking priest on a roundabout of almost-but-not quite love affairs can't liven it up. Nor can a timid gay curate, nor even the priest's dog. Furthermore a grumpy house-keeper utterly destroys any sort of liveliness there may have been. As for the murder plots, well they're an insult to any self-respecting whodunit buff. They're mediocre at best. I suppose Grantchester with its hunky good-looking vicar will gather fans, but I'm not one of them. I like to be entertained, not put to sleep.

ohlabtechguy Been watching some of the episodes from this series. I really wished the show were good enough, but it's not. It had potential but the premise of a priest working as a criminal investigator alongside a professional investigator is just totally UNREAL and unbelievable. Even if you can get past that, the script is not very good and once again, there are NO likable characters except for the priest, except that you just can't excuse how he goes where he shouldn't be going, namely the police station to help their detectives solve criminal cases. Oh...and he doesn't believe in confidentially between himself and his parishioners. He's always going...you guessed it...straight to his detective friend to tell him all about their transgressions!!! Just total make believe garbage!!!