I still can't connect Shaun Evans with John Thaw's Morse, but this is a very good series featuring the young Morse (Evans).
"Girl" takes place at Oxford when Morse was a young but very smart pup. He seems resented by the force, except for his superior D.I. Thursday (Fred Allam) who recognizes Morse's talent.
Morse investigates the death of a young woman, Margaret Bell, from a heart attack, backed up by the fact that she had a heart condition and was on medication for it. That might have been the end of it, but then the partner of her doctor, a Dr. Cartwright, is shot dead.
On visiting the Cartwright family, Morse finds Cartwright's widow, the widow's father, her grandson, and her sister Pamela, an epileptic. The family has taken over care of Pamela's son, to the extent that she can't even take the boy for a visit.
Morse's investigation leads to a supplier of illegal drugs, who was seeing Margaret, a vicar with an interesting past, and a scientist involved in war work who is getting hate letters calling him a murderer. Meanwhile, the chief superintendent doesn't like Morse's work and wants him off the case.
Shaun Evans is an excellent actor and seems immersed in the character of Endeavor Morse; however, as far as linking this young man and his bizarre accent to the irascible Morse is, for me anyway, a stretch. Brilliant, well read, observant, Endeavor is all these things as was the older Morse but I see little of the older man's personality.
Nevertheless, it's a well-done series with, so far, very good scripts.
"Girl" takes place at Oxford when Morse was a young but very smart pup. He seems resented by the force, except for his superior D.I. Thursday (Fred Allam) who recognizes Morse's talent.
Morse investigates the death of a young woman, Margaret Bell, from a heart attack, backed up by the fact that she had a heart condition and was on medication for it. That might have been the end of it, but then the partner of her doctor, a Dr. Cartwright, is shot dead.
On visiting the Cartwright family, Morse finds Cartwright's widow, the widow's father, her grandson, and her sister Pamela, an epileptic. The family has taken over care of Pamela's son, to the extent that she can't even take the boy for a visit.
Morse's investigation leads to a supplier of illegal drugs, who was seeing Margaret, a vicar with an interesting past, and a scientist involved in war work who is getting hate letters calling him a murderer. Meanwhile, the chief superintendent doesn't like Morse's work and wants him off the case.
Shaun Evans is an excellent actor and seems immersed in the character of Endeavor Morse; however, as far as linking this young man and his bizarre accent to the irascible Morse is, for me anyway, a stretch. Brilliant, well read, observant, Endeavor is all these things as was the older Morse but I see little of the older man's personality.
Nevertheless, it's a well-done series with, so far, very good scripts.
