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Peter Jakes is the kind of person who you look at him and it seems like he's staring off into space thinking about something but ACTUALLY he's realised his watch face is reflecting the sun and is working really hard to angle it Just Right so it shines directly into Morse's eyes
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Sir, don't. Show them who you are. This is who I am. No, it never has been. We hold the line, if you cross it now then there's no way back.
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ENDEAVOUR (2012 - 2023)
Shaun Evans as Endeavour Morse in Season 8, Episode 3: Terminus
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once upon a time, it was a family. a mother and a father, and you were married in a church, before the sight of God.
so,
he was nothing, and you see it hit morse like a blow; it's the breaking point. and he almost tells thursday *exactly* who the man he killed was, or rather, had been. but mercy prevails and he falls back on their shorthand, their talisman, the guiding light that was supposed to make the work they do worth it: he was someone's son.
but not mine, says thursday.
it's the final, unknowing cruelty.
morse has boundless empathy and believes in justice for the dead, but maybe he also can't stop imagining himself in their place. the detail he couldn't let drop in the andrew lewis case, which he mentions at least twice in the final episode: he was just a boy looking for his mother.
everybody is someone's something -- except morse, of course. how many times throughout the series have people asked, both to each other and to morse directly: what's keeping him in oxford? he has no family, no ties. he's the odd man out ("same as always" -- thanks jakes). as if all this wasn't enough emphasis, the killer in this episode even selects morse to be his next victim -- for convenience sake, sure, but it also happens to place him as the latest in a line of, to his mind, dangerous outliers to decent society.
morse is no one's son. and we see him realize how much that counts for, in the end.
we here on tumblr reply insistently: he has people! he has friends! but his people, that kind of love, is discounted by the world of the show and honestly, often our own as well. what we're left with, us the audience and morse the doomed figure is only
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It's a real accomplishment that after a decade and 9 seasons, Morse remained such a strong character right to the end. Usually in a long series I get kind of sick of the lead and the decisions they make. The writing for them gets real wobbly.
I think S9 Morse is the most I ever loved him, which also makes it the most painful season to watch.
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Hi hello, I’m very much enjoying your endeavour posting with no context whatsoever! But what’s it about?
(I know I could google but personally I love explaining things I love, so I thought I’d ask😊)
hi! so! well! thank you that's very kind of you <3 very long post incoming.
endeavour is a crime drama that stands on its own, but it's also a prequel to a pretty well known earlier show called inspector morse (that I haven't actually seen) and features the titular character of endeavour morse as a much younger man (played by shaun evans), first as a constable and then a sergeant under the mentorship of one inspector thursday (roger allam). it's set in the 1960s and then early 1970s, which is executed very well! it's nine seasons long of about 3/4 episodes a season, each of them an hour and a half, which I find serves the show well in allowing more freedom for plot development and character dynamics.
I have enjoyed it very much and am currently mildly (extremely) obsessed with it, because it has a stellar combination of a) exemplary acting b) fantastic cinematography and atmosphere setting and c) adherence to the narrative.
in more detail:
morse himself is very much a character who cannot escape his own tragic fate because he brings it about himself, which is of course like catnip to me (love a character who brings his own doom!).
that, and the mildly codependent "we can't seem to part" relationship he has with thursday? delicious. initially of course the relationship is settled in a more mentor-mentee dynamic, though they instantly take a shine to each other (they just genuinely seem to like each other as people, despite their rank difference! they're two of a kind!) with morse as the mouthy, headstrong young man committed to justice and thursday as the experienced world war two veteran who tries to bring him in line while also fighting for that same cause: justice.
I'd argue they lose that dynamic pretty quickly (certainly by about S3), (though it was never particularly strong, given morse's sheer bloody-mindedness) establishing a much more equal footing with each other that's evident in the push and pull between them that starts becoming evident in S4 (ft. bickering) as morse comes into his own. I'll save any spoilers just in case you do decide to watch it, but! they aren't master and pupil — they're equals, and that adds so much more to the dynamic, I find, than a simple reading of them as teacher and student. there's the element of loyalty — thursday in his willingness to defend morse to superiors and morse in his...well, everything. he acknowledges thursday's faults and sticks to him despite his own iron morality. I'll add receipts to posts I made about this that sum it up better than I can manage typing this out sitting in a heatwave.
(here's the post concerning their devotion)
(and this textpost was also about them but it broke containment and now everyone thinks it's about hannibal)
further concerning the exploration of their morality intersecting with their loyalty:
anyway! it's a very good show! allam and evans have a spectacular dynamic as their respective characters, and both of them are incredible actors (evans in particular is of the precise facial expression journeys school, and manages to convey incredible depth and range of emotion, conflicting or not, in two seconds by the look on his face and body language. allam has a somewhat stage trained spin to playing thursday but he's equally brilliant at bringing depth and enormous complexity to a character that could so easily have become flat).
so, if you like to see:
- a miserable uppity twink growing up and becoming a middle aged man in spirit if not body
- said miserable little bastard being doomed from the start (he also gets progressively more miserable as the show goes on) (this will hurt) (it'll hurt a lot.)
- a deuteragonist straight out of a noir film; a family man who's seen the war and who comes to embody the violence he experienced against what he perceives as wrong
- protagonist and deuteragonist are basically textually the most important people in each other's lives and have the power to hurt each other like no one else (👍)
- the enormous ironies of the 1950s "family man"
- great atmosphere setting, wildly varying plots (for better and for worse, but it largely stays in the IMDB 8+ mark), brilliant supporting characters and cast
- acknowledgement of police corruption and brutality (the latter a complex issue, the former the main overarching plot of the show)
- constant parallel drawing and running threads of the narrative that you go "oh my GOD" at during the rewatch
...then this show is for you!
(...and thank you for reading all that)
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Endeavour: 5.01 | 5.06.
I should have given him more time. I could’ve been kinder.
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There’s not many’d take Morse in. He’d do the same for me. Would he? He’s a prickly bugger at the best of times, just how he is.
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Those days, I was just after a bit of snap, crackle and pop.
Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes in Exeunt
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