Grantchester

The third season of “Grantchester” is set in 1955 and focuses heavily on the personal and emotional conflicts of the main characters. The criminal cases tend to take a back seat, but nevertheless provide crime thriller suspense. "In season 3, the screenwriters once again skillfully manage to oscillate between melodrama and tragicomedy in their depiction of these turmoil, while at the same time ensuring that there is no shortage of suspense. The crimes that Sidney and Geordie have to solve [...] are constructed in such a way that they add to the suspense of this portrait of the times. Time and again, the focus is on social injustices such as the disregard for women and the subcutaneous potential for violence in a rigidly ordered social cosmos that strictly sanctions anything that is somehow “different” [...] and rebellions against existing role models. And it is about a deeply rooted bigotry that leads some people, when in doubt, to prefer to kill rather than face unpleasant or shameful truths." (Felicitas Kleiner, on: filmdienst.de) ---------- Sidney (James Norton) receives a series of anonymous phone calls that could be connected to a gruesome series of murders.