Series · BritBox · 2013
Father Brown
70Then talk about it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
A parish, a confession of motive, and a mercy the mystery still has to earn. Gentle and sound.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
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.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
5/10
The parish is a job. The mystery is what the job teaches him to see.
Household
6/10
A village of households. The crimes begin in them.
Piety
9/10
The priesthood is not a hobby or a twist. It is the method.
Courage
6/10
He walks toward the guilty person without a weapon and without a pose.
Republic
7/10
A village that still has a common life, including the part that wants a scapegoat.
Temperance
8/10
Greed, lust, and pride are named as motives, not as style.
Truth
8/10
He wants the truth because a lie is bad for the liar, not only for the case.
Stewardship
7/10
What he is keeping is a soul and a village, in that order.
Live historicallyConsider one person you have reduced to their worst act, and add one true thing besides it.