The original post: /r/television by /u/spectacleskeptic on 2025-04-02 17:16:03.
I have been watching Endeavour on Amazon Prime for the first time (I am currently on season 3). Having been blown away by the season 2 finale, I am shocked that this show is not as popular as it should be. The leads are immensely talented and charismatic (and their voices are like butter), and the world of the show (set in the 1960s) feels so lived in. I would put it up there with Broadchurch and Happy Valley as truly top-tier British detective shows.
I think the title of the show may be handicapping it since it suggests something having to do with space travel or some such, but it really is just about a reserved but highly intelligent detective solving murders in Oxford. (Even I, someone who is drawn to British detective shows, only learned about this show in the last week!)