Father Brown (TV Series) The Deadly Seal (2015) User Reviews

One of the best episodes in the series.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 1 October 2017]

Father Brown hears a confession from a man who explains he plans to murder The Bishop. Bound by his code, Father Brown cannot tell the Bishop,but does what he can to protect his life.

The Deadly Seal is one of my favourite episodes, it is bursting with quality, it plays out almost like an Agatha Christie, with a very Poirot like conclusion. It does a great job at highlighting what for many is a ridiculous situation where a Priest cannot act on information obtained in a confessional, even murder. It's handled in such a thoughtful manner, posing probing questions, without demeaning.

Beautifully acted as always, Malcolm Storry in particular always brilliant as the cantankerous Bishop Talbot.

This is a very good watch 9/10

Guest starring Yolanda Kettle

[safenoe · 8/10 · 28 August 2023]

Yolanda Kettle guest stars as Father Brown battles in the battle of wits as he seeks to hunt down a confession of an upcoming murder of Bishop Talbot. The stage scenes were quite funny and quite laced with ribaldry at the time although before the Carry On movies.

Anyway, the end on the stage with Lady Felicia was quite interesting.

I'm enjoying watching the early seasons of Father Brown for daytime entertainment, along with the early seasons of Law and Order and Magnum, P. I. (the original one, not the reboot).

The Deadly Seal is quite suspenseful and raises ethics about the confessional seal.

The Deadly Seal

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 17 November 2017]

When Father Brown hears a confession from someone who plans to kill Bishop Talbot the very next day, Father Brown leaps into action to save the cantankerous old goat who has decided to go shooting with a theatrical producer.

Unable to tell the Bishop as to why Father Brown has also decided to attend the shooting party, during the shoot the Bishop's Assistant Albert Davies is shot dead.

Father Brown thinks that the Bishop might not had been the intended victim all along. A performance of a farce gives him an important clue about the killer but Father Brown gleans that there might more to Davies's death.

The episode has an element of 'Strangers on the Train' about it but also raises issues regarding the confessional seal as a young girl believed she could had been saved from abuse.

The deadly seal

[coltras35 · 4/10 · 25 July 2022]

Father Brown finds himself in an impossible situation when he is told, under the seal of confession, that Bishop Talbot will be assassinated tomorrow. Started out good but flounders halfway and loses steam. It's watchable but just about. It was a little dull and confusing.