Series · BritBox · 2013
Pass it on
Father Brown
70Worth an evening.
A parish, a confession of motive, and a mercy the mystery still has to earn. Gentle and sound.
The review
Father Brown is not a genius of clues. He is a man who hears sins for a living and therefore is hard to surprise. The show is lighter than Chesterton and kinder than a real parish, and the structure holds: a village, a sin of a recognizable kind, and a preference for the soul over the handcuffs when both can be had. The inspector wants the arrest. The priest wants the person.
A family can watch it. Say that a real crime is not this tidy. Then keep the part that is not tidy even here: mercy is not the same as saying the thing did not happen.
Journal
Keep Father Brown in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Adolescence
78 instead of 70
Adolescence is still a crime show, and it scores 78 instead of 70. What you gain is household: The whole measure is a household that loved a child and did not know him.
The eight
- 5Industry
The parish is a job. The mystery is what the job teaches him to see.
- 6Household
A village of households. The crimes begin in them.
- 9Piety
The priesthood is not a hobby or a twist. It is the method.
- 6Courage
He walks toward the guilty person without a weapon and without a pose.
- 7Republic
A village that still has a common life, including the part that wants a scapegoat.
- 8Temperance
Greed, lust, and pride are named as motives, not as style.
- 8Truth
He wants the truth because a lie is bad for the liar, not only for the case.
- 7Stewardship
What he is keeping is a soul and a village, in that order.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Father Brown · 70IMDb
