Episode #4.3

They don't show the episodes in my country in the correct order, so after the first 4 episodes we are suddenly confronted with S4E3 and I wonder where the priest is.

And yes, even though the title of the series is "Grantchester", the main character was Sidney Chambers, not the boring police person or anybody else. And the priests replacement is superfluous. They could as well kept on without a priest. Or not at all.

I enjoyed Sidney's character very much, but over time his excessive drinking and carrying on got rather tired. Geordie is a much more interesting character and he shined in this episode. We will see how the new guy does and how Leonard will manage after the landlady saw what she saw. There are some touching scenes here with humans being humans. The business with Geordie's wife is a really interesting development.

Grantchester soldiers on without the handsome and troubled Sidney Chambers. But the other characters don't disappoint. They have all still have growing to do.

To the homophobes who want to straight wash history: There's nothing revisionist about depicting gay people in the 1950s. Gay people have existed in every century. Leonard represents the countless of men of God who have struggled to have their vocations honored simply because they are gay. My advice is to actually study history before you attack the accuracy of characters like Leonard.

NOT Sidney. And yes, Norton did a great job of showing how troubled his character was. But as we saw through three seasons including wartime flashbacks, Sidney was on a journey, searching. And when he found what he hadn't even realized he was seeking, he was smart enough to go after her & find his peace. So his journey continues & I thought the final episode was a great tribute to an excellent character. But Grantchester has other excellent characters & I will continue to follow their stories. In no way is Grantchester p.c., post-War was an era of huge social change, how could it not be? And we get to watch some of those changes happen on a personal level. As pastoral & bucolic as Grantchester seems, there is so much more going on beneath, totally true to the village of 2,200 I lived in decades ago. I am totally looking forward to seeing how our new young motorcycle-riding preacher varies from the excellent Mr. Chambers.

The chemistry and charisma and the ensemble cast aspects of this once reliable soap/mystery have gone completely out of the series. It's boring, preachy and just plain dull. The only entertaining scenes in this episode were those btw the curate played by Al Weaver and the always reliable Robson Green. Everything else fell flat. Some shows can survive actor departures and some cannot. This one seems headed for the dustbin in another season or two.