Are you getting tired of hearing how brilliant ITV’s new murder-mystery programme Grantchester is yet? Thought so. Well now that everyone has calmed down a bit (it wasn’t that good was it?), we’ve had a chance to rewatch Episode One and tear it apart. Here are some of the things they got wrong:

- Firstly, as many of you noticed, the vicar in Grantchester was also the rapist in recent BBC drama Happy Valley. It took us all a little while to adjust to his new persona but once we did, national swooning over vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) began in earnest.

- During the railway station scenes, if you stuck your head out of the window for some air (as we did), you’d have heard a resounding chorus rising above the rooftops of “That’s not Cambridge! There’s no underpass at Cambridge station! Fake! Cheat! Where is the Upper Crust?!” For some reason they actually filmed those scenes at Horstead Keynes Railway station in West Sussex. Clearly the multiplatform metropolis that is the new Cambridge station was not adaptable to a 1950s location.

- And similarly, if you were squinting very hard through the German widow’s net curtains, and trying to work out where her house was, then you’d have been forgiven for not recognising it as the private house scenes were filmed in a variety of places including Watford, Rickmansworth, Sarratt and Kings Langley. Cambridge residents must have been reluctant to allow huge film crews to take over their living rooms, although some probably regret this now that they’ve seen the vicar is played by hunky James Norton.

- There were frequent shots of James pedalling furiously from Grantchester to Cambridge, each time culminating in a little cruise down King’s Parade, which had been marvellously transformed into a 1950s street. However, eagle eyed viewers noted that if Sidney was indeed pedalling from Grantchester then he was very much going in the wrong direction. The only thing we can think is that maybe he’d travelled from Grantchester by punt and then cycled from Bridge Street.

- Something that really got on our nerves was the incessant offering of sherry to the vicar, (“fancy a sherry vicar? Groan”) which was presumably some kind of allusion to Monty Python’s Sherry Drinking Vicar sketch but, as the programme pre-dates Monty Python by almost 20 years, it was a bit confusing. Do vicars drink sherry? Was this to do with Monty Python or was it something else? We’re not sure. If you have any information regarding the very pressing issue of vicars and sherry, we’d like to hear from you.

- Finally, Sidney’s urge to fight crime leads him to the police station where Robson Green is the Detective Inspector. There’s been a suicide (but it’s a really a murder) and Sid asks Robbo if he can check out the evidence. And why not? After an initial refusal, the inspector just hands everything over and Sid has a good look through. The urge to fight crime is strong in lots of us but, while we’ve never actually tried to, something tells us that if we were to pitch up now at Parkside police station and offer to help, we’d be told to go away.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Grantchester-got-wrong/story-23122035-detail/story.html#ixzz3I65LMIMI


Vicar跟Sherry那個是怎麼回事啊? 完全不懂這個梗哎。。。Apparently，這記者也搞不懂。。

I had to say goodbye. I just needed to say it, I think. We have a choive, don't we? We can live in the past. We can look forward. Or we can live now. Because we can't change what's happened. We can't predict the future. None of us knows what's around the corner. That's the truth of it. All we can do is keep a long view and hold a steady course.

“我得跟過去說再見了，我必須得說。我們總能做出選擇，不是嗎？我們可以選擇活在過去，我們可以選擇面向未來，我們還可以選擇活在當下。因為我們改變不了業(yè)已發(fā)生的事情，我們也不能預知未來。沒人知道在下一個轉角會發(fā)生什么，這就是事實。我們能做的，就是把目光放長遠，穩(wěn)步前行?！?br>
不再容忍長期受到家暴的妻子褪去鮮亮的妝容，將丑陋的淤青暴露在眾人面前。

不能容忍背叛自己的德國女友毅然離開了牧師，頭也不回。

不愿容忍軍隊生涯中德國被俘士兵被同伴槍殺卻能全身而退毫不受良心譴責的退伍軍人一個個將他的同伴們殺害。

絕不容忍惡人為非作歹而自己的探長朋友卻受槍傷性命不保的牧師想方設法拯救大家，只身一人前去調(diào)查。

無法容忍牧師整日渾渾噩噩的馬太太和Leonard主動提出要用一切方法幫助牧師。

無力容忍自己的戰(zhàn)友受槍傷的痛苦折磨而含淚用自己的槍結束了戰(zhàn)友生命的牧師，他的內(nèi)心誰來拯救？

還有他的老相好，就這樣出嫁了，自己根本去不了她的婚禮。

最后一集，兩個女人離他而去，幸好還有Mrs M和探長他老婆。最后一集見證了德國兵、多個退伍兵和他的戰(zhàn)友以及自殺的罪犯的死亡，其晦暗程度不言自明。好在一切都以回歸結尾。友人得之不易，且行且珍惜。

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此評有劇透。
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五集看下來的結果就是第六集舍不得看……
推理劇迷要嗤之以鼻了：納尼？這么弱的劇情，四十五分鐘一半時間在談情說愛，只用二十幾分鐘破一個案子，精彩程度都不及柯南的劇你都舍不得看完？不是應該一集棄？好吧，別把這劇當推理劇就可以了。它的主人公不是馬普爾小姐、大偵探波羅和Father Brown，它的男主是個有一頭在陽光下閃著玫瑰色光澤的金發(fā)、身高至少 6' 1" ，外加一張無可挑剔古典面孔的年輕未婚牧師——宛如希臘男神。
把這部劇集當成言情劇的話，觀影會很愉快和順利。就像把《50度灰》當三級片就會覺得水準不錯啊，當愛情文藝片就是WTF三個字而已一個意思。
細看之下，言情劇要素：美男美女+三四角戀情+愛恨糾葛+出身門第等等各種阻礙，都有了~~
美男：希臘男神男主不再贅述，看了圖片不服的童鞋們請看動態(tài)，真心是古典美?！禜appy Valley 》里面演一個暴徒，實在刷不了好感的角色，可當時我就邊看邊覺得：尼瑪好高好帥的壞人！恨不起來……（樓主惡趣味，總覺得6英尺以下的帥哥不能叫帥哥，高大是必須的~~）身材練得也很養(yǎng)眼，有一集裹浴巾出浴的場景，女主在樓梯上看呆了（觀眾表示同呆）；還有和黑人歌手內(nèi)啥之后第二天起床無比自責慌亂胡亂把衣服往上套那段好誘人（果真還是禁欲系最迷人）。話說第一集小哥趕不及布道要把便服襯衣?lián)Q掉的時候，小樣的導演居然賣關子沒給大家看看胸……討厭~
這些都算是對男主的正面描寫吧，更出彩的是本劇對他外貌的側面烘托。第一集里他騎自行車穿過鎮(zhèn)子時女孩子們的目不轉睛；他妹妹的女同學們多年后還在贊嘆學生時代看見他時的羞澀；德國姑娘Hildegard 動情地摸著他的臉說：“You have a kind face.”；去爵士俱樂部時黑人姑娘也大方地贊了他的顏。凡此種種讓人想起每個學校都有的校草級人物，真心是連中年婦女班主任都對他們溫柔三分對不對。
聽到這里，抱著把這部劇歸在《Father Brown》那類、就準備看看神職人員吃飽沒事干破案玩的童鞋們是不是下巴沒兜住掉了下來。神職人員這么香艷這么有姑娘緣真的帶膠布嗎？？
這里要講到人設了。男主除了外表吸引人以外，性格塑造得也算是層次豐富。
他是牧師，待人謙恭有禮，熱情友善；他參加過二戰(zhàn)，不是作為隨軍牧師而是作為一個真正的軍官經(jīng)歷腥風血雨；他受過良好教育，這個可以從他的口音和posh階層的朋友圈看出端倪；他心胸寬廣，向他傾訴的教眾不管是婚內(nèi)出軌的還是同性戀，他都跳脫了他那個時代的桎梏，一視同仁對待?？煽此仆昝赖那嗄暌灿兴约旱膁ark passenger。從二戰(zhàn)的戰(zhàn)場回來8年了還是惡夢不斷（PTSD，美劇英劇都愛用的老梗，可用在帥哥身上就不厭煩捏~~），為緩解痛苦落入酗酒的泥淖；他本該以身作則，成為社區(qū)居民的道德典范，可是當黑人爵士女歌手打開車門邀請他上車的時候，他動搖、動心、最后屈服于欲望，在有曖昧對象的情況下與之發(fā)生了關系（他在車門外猶疑的時候表情表現(xiàn)得相當?shù)轿?，那種掙扎和妥協(xié)觀眾我表示：感受到了，你就去吧）；他和兩個女性朋友有著剪不斷理還亂的感情糾葛，不知第六集有說法沒，估計要糾纏到第二季去（如果有的話）。
總體來說，人物性格豐滿，演員塑造到位，吸引觀眾的不光只是一副好皮囊還有透過屏幕表現(xiàn)出來的人物的彷徨與迷失。
美女：女一太綠茶，愛不起來；女二Hildegard 我喜歡，和男主緊靠一起彈鋼琴好有感，腰好細啊抓狂。女一女二服裝都很養(yǎng)眼。
三四角戀情+愛恨糾葛+出身門第：就是三四角戀情+愛恨糾葛+門不當戶不對等等等，我果然只有描述希臘男神才有話說。
哦，忘了好基友探長，大老粗暖男大叔一枚，和男主也蠻有火花的說。大叔藍眼睛忽閃忽閃的，個子只到牧師小哥脖子，華麗麗的超萌身高差簡直在說：歡迎yy啊熱烈歡迎。
探案劇情就不多說了，沒到小白的程度，總體偏弱吧。
嗯，想看五十年代禁忌感希臘男神談戀愛順便破個案的童鞋，可以進。