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 revealing character study of Endeavour
I'm very impressed with this series and the acting of Shaun Evans in this prequel to Morse. In fact, Endeavour is a more complex, less one-dimensional character than Morse. He matures with each episode and this one shows his friendship with another detective named Jakes that pre-dates his later friendship (of sorts) with Lewis. Not to forget Thursday who is his mentor. Jakes leaves for a new life in America at the end of this show so we can only imagine the collaboration that might have followed with the two young police detectives. The Morse-Thursday relationship is interesting because we see in Thursday a man who is similar to the Lewis character: down to earth and hard-nosed but without the intellectual bent of Morse. Nevertheless, both Lewis and Thursday recognize the intuitive mind that Morse/Endeavour brings to his work. In this show, Endeavour and Jakes work effectively together and risk their lives for one another. We also see the young Morse as a man who is attractive to women and is quite open to their overtures towards him. Nevertheless, he resists the temptation here to give in to one who would compromise his investigation. He is quite a capable and smart young man although with a much softer side than the older Morse. This show is set in the sixties but Morse was not one to fall for the sixties' anti-establishment bias if he were to compromise his work. This show is a very carefully created character study of the young Morse (Endeavour). It is also a complex story involving corporate ethics, the racial policy of Rhodesia and its impact in the United Kingdom, as well as the confused idealism of the 1960's.
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- barryrd
- Aug 10, 2017
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