- Morse and promises: he gives Jakes his word he’ll continue the dig, but shuts it down to protect the Thursday family
- Roger Allam and Shakespeare: the episode has 2 nods to Allam’s most famous Shakespeare roles — in Bright’s Prospero speech and Endeavour’s “I know thee not, old man” (what Hal says to reject Falstaff)
- Dickens: the undertakers, Claypole’s, have the same surname as Noah Claypole, the bullying and incompetent apprentice in Oliver Twist
- Holy Social Relevance: the Brexit/Nazi Murderer airing the weekend of Linekergate
- I’d forgotten how much Jack Laskey ups the tempo of the show (and I think his new maturity on camera was really striking)
- A nice tie-in to the otherwise slightly narratologically shaky but horribly moving end of the book version of The Remorseful Day, where Lewis discovers that Morse acted [to avoid spoilers — in a way which disappointed Lewis] as he did to protect Strange’s marriage. In retrospect, this piece of canon makes MUCH LESS SENSE without the Thursdays.
- Lovely parting scene where Thursday’s boy has disappeared behind the mask forever
- Thursday’s Funny Turn in Exeter front quad!!! Cries of Oh No from me
- Morse having a little lie down on the floor of Joanie’s wedding: relatable content even without the stabbing
- I was surprised how much I’d still somehow been hoping for an escape for Morse… when we know though…
- And also, of course, for Max, who similarly dies alone — with Morse as sole mourner
- The determined erasure of LFox from the ensuing documentary is the absolute fucking funniest thing I have ever seen in my life
- I do hate seeing Thaw!Morse look so ill and I thought it was pretty crap of the documentary not to mention how sad Thaw’s early death was
- Please not the hardcore filming fans oh god, the shame of them, they’re terrifying
- Anton Lesser’s lovely hair and discussion of learning his words!!
- Love how essentially we replaced Tigers with Bikers
- Strange not wearing a wedding ring BLEAH, run, Joanie
- Had something happened or is it the changing tech which meant Thaw Eyes looked much grainier in 2022 than they had in 2012?
- the captain I would have followed into hell!!! you did follow him into hell Morse although lbr it was often the other way round