Grantchester · Season 1 · ITV / PBS Masterpiece
Grantchester Season 1
Grantchester Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.2/10. 6 episodes on ITV / PBS Masterpiece from 6 October 2014.
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What BollyAI Thinks
The debut series of Grantchester arrived on ITV in October 2014, adapted from James Runcie's Grantchester Mysteries novels. James Norton played the Reverend Sidney Chambers, a jazz-loving, whisky-drinking Anglican vicar who forms an unlikely investigative partnership with Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). Metacritic's 70/100 from 14 reviews captured the consensus: this was quality comfort television, well-crafted and precisely targeted at the Endeavour and Morse audience, but not transcendent. The Wall Street Journal called it 'a revelation' while the Telegraph offered the more accurate 'Cluedo with cassocks.' First-episode viewership hit 7.69 million on ITV, confirming the series had an audience hungry for this specific vintage of cosy period crime.
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The Room
“Delightfully neat and economical of plot - Cluedo with cassocks and just enough noir for the modern palate.”
Daily Telegraph“Grantchester is a revelation.”
Wall Street Journal