Grantchester
Season 7: Episode 1
Get ready for a season of men
acting like idiots. Will especially. I don’t know where Reverend Will
Davenport’s head is in this seventh season of Grantchester, but it’s not
in a good place.
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| Grantchester Season 7 Robson Green and Tom Brittney |
Geordie’s in trouble again
DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green)
is living at the vicarage now that his wife, Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) has kicked
him out of the house. Before this, he already spent a lot of time with Reverend
Will Davenport (Tom Brittney). Now that they are living together, he spends
even more.
Except the time they spend together
is not always spent doing something Geordie wants to do. Instead of going to the
local pub Geordie is happy to go to, one night Will drags Geordie to a jazz
club. This is definitely not Geordie’s scene. When Will ditches Geordie for a
woman on the dance floor, Geordie is all too happy to ditch Will in return.
It’s probably a good thing
Geordie took off that night. He was scheduled to take care of his kids the next
day, as he is supposed to do every Saturday.
This time with his children is
something Geordie forgets every week. Cathy is not happy when she arrives with the
kids and discovers Geordie has forgotten again. Will has to jump in and save
him by claiming Geordie planned a day at a pool one of the local houses has
opened to the public. Cathy does not believe Geordie planned this for a minute,
but she lets it go.
While at the pool, a body is
found by one of the estate owners. Geordie is off-duty, but he starts to
investigate anyway with Will’s help. This does not go over well with Geordie’s
new boss, DCI Elliott Wallace (Michael D. Xavier).
Wallace is hard to please
But then not much goes over well
with Wallace. He doesn’t like Will being involved in cases. He doesn’t like
Geordie’s old way of doing things. He even dislikes how files are filed. Nothing
really pleases Wallace, and he always knows better.
Something else about Wallace is
he is quick to rush to judgment. At first, he assumes the body is a vagrant and
his death should not be investigated. Then, when it is discovered the man is
actually the owner of the estate, Lord Edmund Fitzgerald, who has been away
traveling for years, Wallace wants the death brushed over as a heart attack. In
his mind, there could not be any other possible cause of death. Except Geordie
can think of a few.
With the very inept DC Larry
Peters (Bradley Hall) assigned as lead to the case, Geordie must work behind
the scenes to figure out what really happened. He discovers Fitzgerald has
spent nearly all his money during his travels, leaving his sisters to turn to
drastic means to keep the estate afloat. Now he is dead and the estate will
pass to a distant cousin. A cousin one of the sisters just happens to be
engaged to.
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Will falls in love . . . or so he thinks
Remember the dancing woman Will
left Geordie for? Well, that night at the jazz club did not exactly go
according to plan. The woman danced with Will then took off. Will managed to
catch up with her before she completely left the building, but he did not get
her name or her number.
Will regrets not getting more
information from the woman, which is why he is pleasantly surprised when he
runs into her at a cemetery. He learns her name is Maya (Ellora Torchia). Soon
after they are in bed together.
Afterwards, Will believes he is
falling in love. Little does he know how unavailable Maya is.
A new beginning for Leonard
Former curate Leonard Finch (Al
Weaver) is starting a new life now that he is out of prison and no longer a
member of the clergy. With the help of vicarage housekeeper, Mrs. C. (Tessa
Peake-Jones), and her husband, Jack Chapman (Nick Brimble), Leonard is able to
open a café. The Cherry Orchard Café is meant to be a place where writers can
come and present their work. Leonard decorates it with pictures of writers and
photos his partner, Daniel Marlowe (Oliver Dimsdale), took.
Mrs. C. does not like the
decorations Leonard has decided on. She feels they do not befit an English tea
room. As she and Jack gave the money for the café, Mrs. C. feels she should have
a say in how it is decorated. One night she stays late at the café, leaving
Leonard a very unpleasant surprise in the morning.
Another person who gets an
unpleasant surprise is Will. While visiting the police station, Will learns not
only that Maya, the woman he’s fallen in love with, is engaged, but that she is
engaged to Geordie’s boss, Wallace.
That’s episode one! Next week, episode
two.
But there is one more thing to
mention. In season six we were introduced to curate Henry Jones (Ahmed Elhaj).
Mrs. C. reveals in this first episode that Henry is now married and has moved
to be closer to his wife’s mother. Will there ever be another curate to help
Will? I do not know.
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