This week Paul and I devoted ourselves to Endeavour Series 1. We were enjoying thoroughly every episode (5 in all: Pilot, Girl, Fugue, Rocket and Home). Why is it so enjoyable? We put our heads together and came to the following conclusions.
1. Accompanying music. Like any other Morse films, Endeavour is always accompanied by classic music, especially scenes from various operas, which transports us to a former familiar world. We are suddenly reminded what we have missed in our busy life, and what music is for us.
2. Impeccable storyline. To retro-construct a character is not something new. We have Andre Camilleri's Detective Montalbano and then The Young Montalbano. But there is a consistency in Colin Dexter's young and old Morse. Every character has a reference to the future, unlike Detective Montalbano's first time meeting with Fazio's father, who should be his original colleague/mentor in the Young Montalbano episodes.
3. Oxford's finest. Young Morse manages to take us back to the finest world of Oxford, beer, classic cars, classically trained detectives, college courts, crosswords and operas, whether it is in an analog or digital age. To solve a criminal case, it involves intelligence, literary tradition and logic as well as experience and intuition.
No wonder Colin Dexter can retire neither Morse nor Jaguar.
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