I watched Endeavor and inspector Lewis, and absolutely loved both, so I thought I would give the original a chance. But I have absolutely zero idea of why on earth anyone would think this was good, let alone some kind of classic. In this series Morse is neither a brilliant detective, nor a sympathetic flawed character, but is instead a sleezy old chump that his Sargent has to keep bailing out. I'm going to chalk it up to some sort of nostalgia, like columbo, sort of a series of it's time. But it definitely didn't age well at all. He becomes a bumbling skeevy bafoon whenever there is a female in the mix. It's frightfully embarrassing. And he always gets it wrong. Watch the other 2 but skip this. It's just mortifyingly bad. Disconnected plots and an incompetent police officer.
Review of Inspector Morse
