There is something so endearing about morseverse to me, because on one hand, yes, so much of morseverse is very silly, but at the same time it is so unapologetically high brow, too. It's filled with opera and poetry and art, from episode titles to murder investigation plots to the characters themselves who are always quoting bits of Shakespeare and Housman and John Donne to one another. And it is both so earnest and refreshing when most other popular media is slop that desires only to be consumed passively and burn down as many synapses as possible with how mindless it is. I discovered new favourite poems and paintings thru these generations of Oxford detectives running after fictional murderers, and there are not that many shows, silly or otherwise, that you can say the same about, you know?
