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Apr 01, 2016
What is it with the Brits that a "season" only comprises a few actual episodes?? Annoying. But that is my only real disappointment with this continuing series. The stories are affecting and nuanced, the acting superb, and the Oxford locations beautiful--the production values are if anything even better than the original Inspector Morse series from which this show was spun. Kevin Whately has matured nicely into the senior inspector role, having once been the youthful, questioning partner to the erudite and acerbic DCI Morse (the late great John Thaw). Some of that world-weary grump seems to have rubbed off on the older Lewis; but then, as the Inspector Lewis series commenced he was mourning the sudden car crash death of his beloved (and unseen) wife, Maureen. Laurence Fox, whose long expressive face and lanky physicality reminds one unavoidably of the young Donald Sutherland, brings intelligence and wit to the role of DI Hathaway; he makes a fine partner for the now weathered, wiser Lewis.