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Silent Witness: Terminus: Part 2 (2006)
Interesting idea, but execution lacks focus.
This is an interesting premise, instead of the usual one or two linked (or completely unconnected) stories, as is usually the case with Silent Witness, here we have multiple stories with no connections and some have no real crimes attached. It's almost a type of "a day in the life of a pathologist" episode. Some ideas are more compelling than others, and some work better than others, one or two ideas are a bit too much of a coincidence or too contrived. Harry and the attractive WPC for instance.
My wife and I did enjoy it and, although we both agreed, while it was an engaging experiment, we both prefer the more standard format. But big plaudits for being brave to try something different.
Endeavour: Zenana (2020)
A slightly disappointed end to a disappointing season.
*Spoiler alert*
I love Endeavour, as I loved Inspector Morse and Lewis before it. And as Endeavour goes on, since series 3 really, I feel it's getting further away from those fantastic series and the original source - the wonderful Colin Dexter.
It's not that I don't enjoy it anymore, the cast and the production is still brilliant. But I do feel like they're being let down by increasing flimsy crimes and unnecessary story arcs that overshadow the individual episodes and span the complete season.
The unnecessary addition of the annoyingly thin Ludo and his equally awful wife was very much shoehorned in. And did Russell Lewis honestly think we didn't know what was going to happen? The pathetic way he used city names as an acronym was terribly weak and forced. I also didn't understand why he said Morse was his 'tame policeman', he did nothing to help, in fact Morse was the reason they got caught!
Also the identity of the 'Tow Path killer' turned out to be Fred's suspect, even though he had four witnesses to say he had an alibi, or did I miss something?
Another thing which didn't seem to make sense, was the painful and upsetting divide between Morse and Thursday, I understand why it was occurring, so why at the end did they seem to make it up, does that mean we have to go through the wringer again in season 8?
I feel terrible writing negatively about this fantastic TV series, but I have to speak from the heart. I do hope in the next (and possibly final?) season, Russell Lewis goes back to the basics that made Endeavour what it was and can be again.