Grantchester (TV Series) Episode #2.1 (2016) User Reviews

Series 2 kicks off with a dramatic episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 6 October 2019]

I love Grantchester, and after a terrific first series, it came as no surprise that a second series arrived.

They clearly wanted to start the series off with a shock factor episode, and there is a dramatic moment staged, after a perfectly idyllic scene.

I enjoyed this, it's very dramatic, and builds on the relationships and complexities developed in the excellent first series. It's quite shocking, it doesn't exactly put the church in a good light, but the concept is interesting.

He is the most buff Vicar on Earth, does he actually do any vicaring? To me, he looks like he's pumping iron, as opposed to tea and cake. Where did David Troughton's bullish detective go? Did they forget about him?

It's not without a few flaws, but overall, I enjoyed it very much. 8/10

Drinking to oblivion

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 1 June 2016]

Grantchester returns for a second series and the producers have livened up the colour palette from the more dreary tones from the first series.

In the opening episode Reverend Sidney Chambers is accused of sexual assault by the father of 15 year old Abigail Redmond.

After being released Geordie and Sidney find her dead body at a photographer's studio where it looks like she posed for racy pictures.

There are a whole host of suspects including the photographer, her school friends and her angry father who accused Sidney based on her accounts in her diary. The possible motive for her death was that she was pregnant.

Viewers would like the atmospheric, 1950s setting although I tend to admire the more lower budget Father Brown on BBC1. The trouble with the episode was that all the clues of the culprit is in the diary that Sidney reads which allows him to guess the culprit. Which means all the police had to do was ready the diary and figure it out.