Arcadia
- Episode aired Jan 10, 2016
- TV-14
- 1h 29m
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8.1/10
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The death of an artist in a horrendous house fire leaves Oxford City Police baffled as to the cause of the blaze.The death of an artist in a horrendous house fire leaves Oxford City Police baffled as to the cause of the blaze.The death of an artist in a horrendous house fire leaves Oxford City Police baffled as to the cause of the blaze.
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- TriviaWhen the Thursday family is watching tv at the beginning, they are passing around a box of Mackintosh's Good News chocolates; Fred asks "who's had the Savoy truffle?" The famous package of chocolates was the one whose inventory is listed in the famous George Harrison song "Savoy Truffle."
- GoofsWhen Dr. De Bryn is describing the heavy drinking of the murder victim, he refers to him sarcastically as "the last of the red-hot livers", a pun on the title of Neil Simon's well-known play, "The Last Of The Red-Hot Lovers". However, this episode of "Endeavour" is set in mid-1967, and Simon's play did not open on Broadway until December of 1969.
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DI Fred Thursday: Did you see the way the girl flinched when he put his hands on her?
DC Endeavour Morse: Yes, I saw.
DI Fred Thursday: Pot and free love, I suppose. Free love. In my experience, that's the most expensive kind there is.
- Crazy creditsDuring the closing credits, when read in order, the red letters spell out "bloater paste," which is the sandwich spread Mrs. Thursday put on her husband's sandwich. Luckily he didn't eat it, because it was probably tainted. According to cooksinfo.com, "Bloater Paste is a fish spread made from salted, smoked herrings called "bloaters", which are smoked whole with the insides still in them. A bloater has a more gamey flavour than cleaned herrings. It is sold in small jars."
- ConnectionsReferences The Graduate (1967)
- SoundtracksFor What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)
(uncredited)
written by Stephen Stills
performed by Buffalo Springfield
Featured review
A strong improvement over the previous episode and a good movie in itself
I really love the detective series "Endeavour", in my opinion, this is a great prequel to"Inspector Morse" (one of the best detective shows in fact) and a good show in itself. "Endeavour "started with a solid pilot episode and got even better with "Girl" and "Fugue", two very solid episodes of the show, after which the first season ended with two decent episodes of "Rocket" and "Home". The second season got even better and darker, with the only bad episode "Neverland".
After the flawed, ridiculous, and wacky first episode of the Ride season, "Arcadia" is a marked improvement and just a good movie in itself. In fact, my only complaint about the episode (as with the entire season 3) is that it's not as dark and stylish as seasons 1 and especially season 2. In this particular case, I would like to see a little more rigidity and tension in the finale, given how superbly intense the episode itself was. However, "Arcadia" does a lot of things well and I really liked the character development of Jakes (in fact, it's one of the biggest advantages of the show that it develops each of the regular characters, which detective shows rarely do).
In General, there is nothing to add here - a good episode. 9/10
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