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Grantchester · Season 4 · ITV / PBS Masterpiece

Grantchester Season 4

Grantchester Season 4 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.0/10. 6 episodes on ITV / PBS Masterpiece from 11 January 2019.

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BollyMeter7.0/10Tom Brittney's debut as the Reverend Will Davenport; critics found the transition smoother than expected, though the new vicar lacked the moral complexity Norton had built across three series.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Series 4 arrived in January 2019 with a new lead: Tom Brittney as the Reverend Will Davenport, a younger and brasher successor to Norton's Sidney Chambers. The recasting introduced new tensions - Will's working-class background, his ambivalent relationship to the Church, and his friendship with the now-promoted Geordie Keating (Robson Green, still the series' bedrock). Critics generally accepted the transition while noting the inevitable sense of recalibration. The mystery-of-the-week format continued reliably, and the late-1950s setting gave the new vicar's social outsider status fresh purchase.

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Season Over Season

Season 4 reset the series with a new lead, trading Norton's romantic melancholy for Brittney's more combustible energy - a worthwhile swap that took a season to fully bed in.