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.

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With a new set of writers and production team, the Lewis series is far more intelligent with more complex and intriguing plots than the Morse series. Lewis, in a very nice touch, listens to Tosca, tries to go to Glyndebourne for an opera with Dr. Hobson as his date--would love to see them get together as a couple. From the pilot now through Series Three, in almost every one, there is an homage to Morse--crossword puzzles, anagrams, opera, and the more subtle such as Lewis telling his Sergeant, James Hathaway, the he actually is a Wagner man (like Morse), but stating he liked Wagner especially if it is conducted by Knappertsbusch. One has to recall that Morse was pleasantly surprised when Lewis happened to purchase a recording of Parsifal, but Lewis pronounced the conductor's name "Nappertsbusch" and the always last word was Morse telling Lewis that it's actually pronounced "K-nappernatsbusch." Since I have probably watched the Morse episodes at least 20 times, all of these wonderful small snippets in remembrance of not only Morse, but of John Thaw, the actor, are wonderful, and bring back both a little bit of happiness and sadness concomitantly.Whether you were/are a fan of Morse, you can't help but be a fan of Lewis. With now the underling being the Cambridge educated cop that niggles at Lewis, it's a nice change from the screaming of Morse at Lewis from above. Maybe that's the intelligence of this series. As Americans who are used to TV shows going up to 20 seasons with 26 shows per season, and the English series (not including soaps and Dr. Who) rarely going longer than 6 seasons and no more than 6-7, and usually 4-6 shows per season, we fans can't get enough of Oxford murders.If these were priced at twice the price, they would still be worth the money. If you are not yet addicted to Lewis, you must start with the Pilot episode which sets the tone of the new series--new Superintendant, and female to boot. Tough when she needs to be, but understanding. And she converses with Hathaway almost as much as Lewis.The best "cop" show right now. Midsomer Murders, for all it's many, many years running thanks mostly to American audiences who could not and apparently cannot get enough, may Lewis go on until he retires, many, many years from now.