Inspector Morse: Cherubim & Seraphim
As Seen On A&E And PBS Mystery!
Inspector Morse (John Thaw) is not the ideal policeman his superiors think. He's prickly and sarcastic, a confirmed bachelor and an intellectual snob who follows his own rules. But he gets results. In this episode, Morse's step-niece commits suicide, and Morse takes a leave of absence. His investigation into the young girl's death leads him into an alien world of teenage hedonism: house parties, raves and designer drugs.
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More Tragedy than Mystery - Gregg
In Cherubim and Seraphim what we have essentially is a tragedy in the senseless death of Morse’s niece, which while the result of a suicide may have had an external influence. While this is obsensibly a mystery it is better described as a tragedy.
The mystery is revealed fairly early to the audience and instead we are observing as Morse and the other adult characters discover their ignorance of a teenage culture involving raves and recreational drugs. More importantly it is the inability to understand the pain of others and in particular the pain associated with the difficult teenage years.
With this episode we get considerably more introspection from Morse and find out much more about his family life and childhood in this one episode than we had previously discoverd in all of the previous episodes of the series combined. We also see considerably more of DS Lewis’s home life and family than we have before.
As with the previous episode and others we have another fairly big international star in the person of Jason Isaacs, although perhaps not a household name he is perhaps best known as Mel Gibson’s antagonist in “The Patriot” or as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies.
This was also the second Inspector Morse episode to be directed by Danny Boyle the Academy Award wining Director of “Slumdog Millionaire” as well as “Ttrainspotting” “Shallow Grave” and “28 Days Later”.
While the essential ingredients of an Inspector Morse mystery remain consistent there can also be considerable variation amongst the episodes. In this episode we are less concerned with the mystery than we are with the repercussions upon those that were left behind and even upon the officers involved in the investigation. The mood of the entire episode is effectively somber which contrast considerably with the lighter mood of the previous episode. While the script is certainly a large part of this it also highlights one of Boyle’s strengths.
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More Tragedy than Mystery - Gregg
In Cherubim and Seraphim what we have essentially is a tragedy in the senseless death of Morse’s niece, which while the result of a suicide may have had an external influence. While this is obsensibly a mystery it is better described as a tragedy.
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