Grantchester (TV Series) Episode #7.3 (2022) User Reviews

A great episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 26 March 2022]

Geordie investigates the death of several young men, one found in the doorway of Leonard's cafe. After her bad news Mrs Chapman lashes out and goes of the rails.

This was the best episode for quite a while, I don't think the show has had such depth for quite a while, the crimes were very interesting, almost chilling.

It was good to see Leonard back centre stage, he shared the limelight with Geordie and Sylvia. Each scene he was in was excellent, the one at the restaurant on particular, superb. I almost feel we benefited from a break of Wills romantic antics, although another romance seems to be on the cards.

Tessa Peake-Jones shines here, Sylvia's best outing for years, what a class act she is.

This was very well produced, the music was particularly good, and added to the atmosphere incredibly well.

Credit where it's due, I've been critical of the show in recent times, but this was spot on, 9/10.

Great!!

[hazangel-89910 · 8/10 · 7 August 2022]

I cant stop laughing!!! Mrs C and Leonard have honestly saved this show! I really wanted to like Will but he has become more and more annoying! The scene in the restaurant had me in stitches!! I could watch Leonard and Mrs C all day!! Thank goodness for these talented two or I would have stopped watching a while ago!

A Turn for the Better

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 15 August 2022]

Mrs. C is facing cancer and feels God has betrayed her and she lets people know it. Geordie continues to be estranged from his wife and is so dense at times. Leonard is the continuing, kind and troubled man who cares only about others. The case her is another in a series of men found in doorways, cleaned and shaven, and strangled. Will is less significant here.

Mrs. Chapman was so great~

[BERGDORF · 10/10 · 28 July 2022]

I was so moved by Mrs. Chapman's "prayer" in the church. So many people suffer like she has but are afraid to express their anger when hopes and prayers fall through the cracks. I praise the script writers of this episode for having the nerve to let her Mrs. Chapman curse God out and in a church! I know its taboo for most people to "talk back" to God but how many of us have felt the same frustration? I know I have, then watching & hearing Mrs. Chapman let God have it, made me clap my hands!!! Because when you've done all you can do and STILL get ignored by the Lord, how else are you supposed to handle it??? I cannot wait to see how the next episodes of GRANTCHESTER turn out~

Episode 7

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 11 May 2023]

When a dead tramp is found outside Leonard's cafe. He teams up with Geordie to investigate.

That is because Tom Brittney has taken up directing duties for this one. So slightly less of Will in the investigation front.

Geordie thinks it is strange that several tramps have shown up dead in recent months. Maybe the deaths are linked.

This dead tramp could be a teacher from the university who was let go for having a breakdown.

Meanwhile Mrs Chapman is distraught with her cancer diagnosis. She goes to an upmarket restaurant with Leonard and causes havoc.

I liked the insights on the mind of a murderer, the implication that this was a very mentally disturbed person.

I was not too convinced by Mrs Chapman's breakdown at the restaurant. It was much better when she was venting her frustrations in church.

Up your bum

[DoctorStrabismus · 2/10 · 7 August 2022]

I'm sorry, but you spend six series carefully creating these characters, with whom we become so familiar, and then you go and turn them totally inside out and on their heads. It is the 'Endeavour syndrome', just one more series, which turns out to be one series too far.

This time it is Mrs C, always so prim and proper, who gets blind drunk (and that amount of champagne for someone who is not a regular drinker would have had them utterly unconscious) and repeatedly shouts "up your bum" at the waiter and other diners in a fancy restaurant. No, sorry, it's way too silly.

The plot is likewise. Three down-and-out drunks have been found in very rapid succession dead in shop doorways, and the police superintendent and the lame-brained Larry dismiss them as "only tramps". Nobody even notices that they have all been strangled. Cambridge police may not have always been brilliant, but they would at least look a bit closer. There is such a thing as a coroner, who would ask for cause of death, and want some form of autopsy report, not just a junior cop saying "he was a tramp".

Meantime the wayward willies of the two central characters are about to create even more problems, and that seems for sure. Will is clearly getting a very strong come-on from Bonnie, and Geordie is about to (yet again) shag his secretary, different one this time, Miss Scott. The previous time it caused his marital breakup, but he supposedly wants to get back with Cathy, and yet I think we know for sure where the scene with Miss Scott is headed, don't we?

And back in an era when Cambridge was still rigidly organised into only single-sex colleges, just look - they have created a mixed one!

Quite honestly, if I wanted to watch a third rate soap, I would, but that is all that Grantchester is degenerating into.

One series too far, and "up your bum" with the whole thing!

2/10, and it would have been only 1 but for the nice shot of them walking up Senate House Passage past the Caius Gate of Honour.