Are you getting tired of hearing how brilliant ITV’s new murder-mystery programme Grantchester is yet? Thought so. Well now that everyone has calmed down a bit (it wasn’t that good was it?), we’ve had a chance to rewatch Episode One and tear it apart. Here are some of the things they got wrong:

- Firstly, as many of you noticed, the vicar in Grantchester was also the rapist in recent BBC drama Happy Valley. It took us all a little while to adjust to his new persona but once we did, national swooning over vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) began in earnest.

- During the railway station scenes, if you stuck your head out of the window for some air (as we did), you’d have heard a resounding chorus rising above the rooftops of “That’s not Cambridge! There’s no underpass at Cambridge station! Fake! Cheat! Where is the Upper Crust?!” For some reason they actually filmed those scenes at Horstead Keynes Railway station in West Sussex. Clearly the multiplatform metropolis that is the new Cambridge station was not adaptable to a 1950s location.

- And similarly, if you were squinting very hard through the German widow’s net curtains, and trying to work out where her house was, then you’d have been forgiven for not recognising it as the private house scenes were filmed in a variety of places including Watford, Rickmansworth, Sarratt and Kings Langley. Cambridge residents must have been reluctant to allow huge film crews to take over their living rooms, although some probably regret this now that they’ve seen the vicar is played by hunky James Norton.

- There were frequent shots of James pedalling furiously from Grantchester to Cambridge, each time culminating in a little cruise down King’s Parade, which had been marvellously transformed into a 1950s street. However, eagle eyed viewers noted that if Sidney was indeed pedalling from Grantchester then he was very much going in the wrong direction. The only thing we can think is that maybe he’d travelled from Grantchester by punt and then cycled from Bridge Street.

- Something that really got on our nerves was the incessant offering of sherry to the vicar, (“fancy a sherry vicar? Groan”) which was presumably some kind of allusion to Monty Python’s Sherry Drinking Vicar sketch but, as the programme pre-dates Monty Python by almost 20 years, it was a bit confusing. Do vicars drink sherry? Was this to do with Monty Python or was it something else? We’re not sure. If you have any information regarding the very pressing issue of vicars and sherry, we’d like to hear from you.

- Finally, Sidney’s urge to fight crime leads him to the police station where Robson Green is the Detective Inspector. There’s been a suicide (but it’s a really a murder) and Sid asks Robbo if he can check out the evidence. And why not? After an initial refusal, the inspector just hands everything over and Sid has a good look through. The urge to fight crime is strong in lots of us but, while we’ve never actually tried to, something tells us that if we were to pitch up now at Parkside police station and offer to help, we’d be told to go away.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Grantchester-got-wrong/story-23122035-detail/story.html#ixzz3I65LMIMI


Vicar跟Sherry那個是怎麼回事啊? 完全不懂這個梗哎。。。Apparently，這記者也搞不懂。。