A Decent Price for a Full Set of One of the BEST Mystery Series EVER!
"Inspector Morse" first premiered on BBC in 1987 - and yet it does not feel dated. Only occasionally are you reminded it is an older show - once when someone types a letter using carbon paper, and once with a computer using the old DOS (remember green letters on a black screen?)!
I can put up with that, given the exceptional scripts and characterizations. I wish I had room here to give you a synopsis of every episode, or even my favorite episodes. For that matter, there are some scenes which stand out in their excellence.
Inspector Morse (played by John Thaw, now deceased) is cranky, intelligent, tenacious and curious. He loves his pint, he's addicted to crosswords, and he seems to only be attracted to women who are in love with someone else. He is a bull-dog when he sniffs something odd, and he frequently gets in trouble for overstepping.
His murder mysteries are anything but run-of-the-mill and definitely excellent entertainment.
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Enigmatic Morse
How wonderful that this 33 episode series (1987-2000) has finally been released in a new format. During your vicarious travels to England, be aware that the body-count in Oxford is as high as Midsomer's. John Thaw is magnificent as Inspector Morse, a tour de force of soul and depth. Morse is a deeply intelligent, thoughtful, misunderstood, and complex character. His opera loving ways and fascination with crossword puzzles are authentic; he loves rich ales and fine women, though the former is consistently more in close proximity than the latter. Morse's beautiful, vintage, alluring crimson Jaguar Mark 2 is another character in the series. His childhood was darkly troubled, and it's implied he lost a scholarship and dropped out of St. John's College, Oxford, due to a tragic love affair with yet another unavailable woman. He remains smarter and more sensitive than is good for him, or his human relationships, caught between yearning for connections and yet requiring solitude. In "The...
Praise from a devoted "Morse" fan.
I am very pleased with the quality of the dvd's, they are bright and clear. If you are a Morse fan, I don't have to reccomend this collection, it is the ultimate present. Also, they are in the order that they were filmed, which I find very interesting, and even though I thought that I had seen all of them on PBS, there are some that I haven't, and that is a thrill. This couldn't be better!
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