Revolutionary Rants

I am just watching ITV’s new drama ‘Lewis’, which is a ’spin-off’ from one of my favourite detective dramas ‘Morse’. It is funny to think, first off, that ITV made ‘Morse’ considering the tripe they are currently producing, and secondly it is a shame they’ve bothered with ‘Lewis’.

Although it has been a soft revisiting of old ground - similar music, the dreamer spires silhouetting many cross-wordy clues - it fails in that what was perfect and lasting in ‘Morse’ that you had both Morse and Lewis. The stories were a bit crap, even then, the supporting cast was generally hammy, the clues pretentious; what it had was the Oxford setting and the relationship between the two principle characters (and the brilliant acting of the two actors playing them, too). As a book about the series put it the two had a ’strange marriage’, which Lew is on his own - let alone with a rather stiff odd blond bloke in tow - just won’t ever have.

Ah well, ratings is war, I suppose.