Endeavour: Series 8 [DVD] [2021]

Have yet to 're run the whole series but the link between Morse original and the historical setting good

endour this dvd caries on were they left off very thrilling right to the end cant wait for the next series to come along

Haven’t finished viewing all of the CD yet, so I’ll let you know once I have seen the whole DvD…..cheers

good show

It would be impossible over the course of eight seasons -- of any program -- to please every viewer with every episode. And certainly, the denouement of Terminus, with its choreographed and seemingly endless explanation presented in near Greek Chorus style by multiple bad guys deeply strains our credulity while simultaneously reminding us of how TV and films were done in the early 1970s. So hats off again for sticking to its principles -- because Endeavour always achieves verisimilitude in unique style. For a single example, while we are exposed to multiple ways of seeing newspaper headlines throughout this series, Terminus actually resorts to that lowest 70s rung: the flat, copy-shot newspaper headline images that were such an expedient favorite of TV and film of the time and, of course, the cheapest possible method of moving a story along. Mix in troubling hairstyles, fashions found only on the set of Space 1999, Burnt Umber, interiors suspended between the distant and recent past and it's easy to feel as uncomfortable with the visual world of this series as we are with Morse's excessive dependence on drink.As the decades roll one into another I have been at times given a curious sense of genuine nostalgia for what the series leaves behind. To its profound credit Endeavour insists on moving forward, on not relying on a comfortably and predictably frozen past. For those two things alone, I have to thank and congratulate Endeavour for providing me with an experience no other series has offered.

Looking forward to this and not disappointed, I am into it as I was into Morse and sometimes Lewis.However I think Covid etc led to some budget cuts, a few issues in creating a 70s look that if you were around at the time jarr and it seems to be shot a little dark I think to help hide this.Few other issues, only now being 16 years from Morse and the character despite solving all these crimes is only a Detective Sergeant seems quite a career jump to Detective Chief Inspector, especially as that character was presented to us as being someone who had hit career ceiling some years earlier.But most of all, it is hard to imagine the character we see now, turning into the Morse of 87, but I do hope they will go the full way to joining them together in this and subsequent serieses.

Not as good as i thought it would be.

What can I say, it is a combination of superb reconstruction of the period together with the excellent acting abilities of all the actors in the series.