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       Inspector George Gently (and MS) (TV series, 8 seasons--2008-201
       7)
       By: agate Date: February 26, 2019, 1:15 am
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       [font=arial]Yet another well-acted drama from the UK, George
       Gently [/font]gives us Martin Shaw as Inspector George Gently,
       accompanied by his younger assistant, DS John Bacchus (Lee
       Ingleby), as they try to solve difficult crimes.
       The plots can be fairly convoluted.
       [font=arial]Often the focus is on the tension and everyday
       interactions between Gently and Bacchus. Bacchus, with a very
       slight frame and a tentative, somewhat insecure demeanor, seems
       poorly suited for being a policeman, and his naïveté soon
       becomes obvious--as when he is open to being bribed in spite of
       having been cautioned on that very subject–his vulnerability to
       bribery–by Inspector Gently. [/font]Gently, on the other hand,
       is more secure, more deliberate and thoughtful.
       Gently and Bacchus  resort to violence when a suspect is being
       recalcitrant, but Gently often is the one who exercises
       restraint, backing off from the violence readily enough.  Since
       this is a tactic the police use routinely, George Gently is just
       giving us the real world.  Still, some of the scenes are grim.
       It sometimes seems as if both Gently and Bacchus are almost too
       eager to flatten somebody out and to be mighty brutal about it
       in their zeal to wrest information from the person.
       In season 7, Inspector Gently is diagnosed with multiple
       sclerosis, and the overly ambitious John Bacchus seems entirely
       too eager to see him retire.The final season is shorter than the
       others, and I had the distinct impression that whoever was
       making this series  wanted to shuffle George Gently off the
       stage by the time Season 8 came along.
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       However, the episodes are worth watching and well done. Perhaps
       because a US President’s case of multiple sclerosis had already
       been highlighted in episodes of the popular West Wing[/font]
       fairly recently, George Gently’s MS, after being revealed in
       Season 7,  isn’t mentioned in Season 8.. It is clear that he is
       about to retire, and some new unsavory revelations about John
       Bacchus cast a pall over the situation–though it is clear that
       Inspector Gently tolerates John as a father would tolerate a
       son.
       For more about this series:
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  HTML https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430509/?ref_=fn_ep_tt_20a[/font]
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