Whether he’s breaking into the vicarage because he’s misplaced his key or taking a swim and causing a commotion with his six pack abs, Rishi Nair plays a new kind of cleric on ‘Grantchester.’
For this, it’s 9th season, the PBS hit “Grantchester” is shaking things up.
The series has always been an oddly intriguing mix. Weekly murders are solved in Grantchester, a small fictional town near Cambridge, by local police inspector Geordie Keating (producer and star Robson Green) who’s teamed in an odd couple arrangement with the local vicar.
As a smorgasbord of societal issues – racism, homophobia, misogyny and intolerance – and distinctive characters – atheist cop, gay priest expelled from Christian ministry, a bigoted housekeeper, a portrait of 1961 England emerges.
With tonight’s third episode, a new vicar arrives to upset not just residents but, crucially, Geordie, a Sherlock suddenly without his Watson.
