#morseverse

[wildwildtarget]

"My wife…was killed. Hit-and-run."

LEWIS || Whom the Gods Would Destroy

[patrice-bergerons]

There is something so endearing about morseverse to me, because on one hand, yes, so much of morseverse is very silly, but at the same time it is so unapologetically high brow, too. It's filled with opera and poetry and art, from episode titles to murder investigation plots to the characters themselves who are always quoting bits of Shakespeare and Housman and John Donne to one another. And it is both so earnest and refreshing when most other popular media is slop that desires only to be consumed passively and burn down as many synapses as possible with how mindless it is. I discovered new favourite poems and paintings thru these generations of Oxford detectives running after fictional murderers, and there are not that many shows, silly or otherwise, that you can say the same about, you know?

[jessiedragonda]

Some bits I liked from the morse novels

[pressure-machine]

EVERY ENDEAVOUR EPISODE season three, episode four: Coda

[jamalone]

[oeuvrinarydurian]

Am I the only person who hadn’t realized that the voiceover for the “Martyr’s Field” newsreel at the top of “Degüello” was done by Roger Allam, throwing us his best toff accent?

[incorrectendeavourquotes]

Fancy: Houston, we have a problem?

Morse, sighing: Where are you?

Fancy: Houston. That's the problem. I don't know how I got here.

(Hi, my loves! I’ve missed yous! Life’s been… Mad, lately. But I’ve got a nice backlog of quotes, yay!)

[parlorsnake]

I hadn’t seen S4E4 Harvest since it initially aired and oh my god, it’s so batshit. The folk horror themes? Witchy old lady reading tarot in a forest cottage? The nuclear power facility? Thursday beating the shit out of that sleazy guy? Joan being a hot mess?? Incredible.

BUT (spoiler)

Morse blurting out ‘marry me’ to Joan.

I actually gasped/woke up the cat screaming ‘WHAT?!’

I had completely forgotten about that moment and it got me GOOD.