Inspector Lewis: Series 3

Amazing, wonderfullyv written, fantastic stories. This series is much better than Inspector Morse. The characters are beautifully presented, the lead actors are superb, in fact stellar, and the stories really touch your heart. I wish WETA would stop wasting our time with idiotic series like mr and mrs murder, or the inane and stupid Dalziel and Pascoe, or the idiotic series on Hotels with Richard Grant behaving like a moron whose sole objective is to perform dumb tricks such as jumping up and down on perfectly clean sheets with his shoes on, or on jumping into an empty bathtub with his shoes on whilst wearing his dirty travel clothes and shoes, or the infinitely boring globetrekker which is a sheer waste of everyones time. Weta should concentrate instead on genuine treasures such as Inspector Lewis and Foyles War. In addition, can weta please refrain from airing the aforementioned stupid shows in a virtually continuous ad nauseum loop so that we can tolerate these awful timewasters somewhat better. It would indeed be lovely for those of us in the audience who love the stellar shows Inspector Lewis and Foyles War be allowed to watch these treasured shows and episodes uninterrupted and yes, over and over again 😇i

Season three (3) of PBS' "Inspector Lewis" has restored my love of this series. I adored Season one (1) of "Inspector Lewis"; Season two (2) left me rather indifferent to the series. I found the stories in Season two (2), to me, to be rather convoluted and hard to follow with the actors just did not seeming, to me, to be "into" their roles. Season three (3) however, is really good with, to me, very well written and directed mysteries plus they are so very well acted.Kevin Whatley as Detective Lewis and Laurence Fox as his young detective partner, James Hathaway certainly make a good team(not always seeing "eye to eye" regarding a case) bouncing off each other wonderfully while solving some dastardly murders in Season three (3) which also has some known actors in Britain such as Rubert Graves ("Room with a View", "Maurice", etc) Joanna Lumley ("Ab Fab"), Nathaniel Parker ("Inspector Lynley", "Bleak House", etc.). Indeed Lewis and Hathaway, although the opposite of each other mainly generationally, do make a good detective team. Yes, Inspector Morse's ghost is ever present but, I feel, Lewis and Hathaway in Season three (3) have certainly come into their "own" with this series making for a really entertaining series. I know that I really enjoyed Season three (3).Season 3 is presented on three discs with five (5) episodes running about an hour and a half per episode. If you are into good detective mysteries, buy this set.

Best season of an excellent series. Pacing is excellent given the academic setting, and the plots are complex enough to retain the more prurient interests in all of us. Fox and Whately are always accessible, often brilliant and never moreso here. As a fan of Morse, Endeavor and many other British investigation mysteries (except for the overdone and unbelievable Midsomer Murder series), I can say unequivocally that it doesn't get better. Direction is crisp, and keeps Oxford as a character throughout. Barrington Pheloung's scores are superb as always. Sound, lighting and staging in this season are nearly perfect. The writing of such shows can often be a bit lugubrious, and the many throwaways here and the undercurrent of high Church liturgy that bubbles up soften the necessarily expository nature of the genre. This is truly escapist entertainment for blokes and birds what read too much.

"Dead of Winter" was one of the best Inspector Lewis episodes. In this, we discover a bit of Sgt. Hathaway's past, and he has a romance with a former childhood companion who is about to get married. We visit a very interesting Castle with a past and the episode opens with a set of re-enactors, who annually reproduce a skirmish that took place near the site during the English Civil War between defenders of King Charles versus Parliament. In all nicely done, well written, interestingly plotted and brilliant location scenery. One thing you should know, nearly half of this program is a parody of "Brideshead Revisited", especially when Charles Ryder is in the military and comes back upon the estate after many years. The current Lewis production even uses the same names. The detective is called "Hooper" when addressed by Detective Sgt. Hathaway, and there are quotes "you can see it over there, a huge great ship of a place" like Brideshead's Hooper. "You can see it from over there a huge great barracks of a place." Lord Mortmain instead of Lord Marchmain, Julia is Scarlett, Hodgekiss the butler instead of Hopkins, etc. all throughout the plot. Of course you really needed to be exposed to "Brideshead Revisited" in order to know what is being parodied in "Dead of Winter".

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