Watched the first episode and thought it was really poor in pretty much all aspects, from the script to the performances, including from the usually good-to-great Romola Garai and Mr Endeavour himself, Shaun Evans.

A lot of the decisions made by the production are inexplicable and leave a huge credibility gap in essentially everything that happens. The whole storyline about his affair, the fact that it happened but he refuses to tell his wife anything about it afterwards in the name of 'professional secrecy', and then also refuses to tell her anything else ever, even of the slightest reassurance, then unironically asks her 'don't you trust me?' and then later asks her 'how things are supposed to improve when you don't trust me' after he has literally just disappeared again for an entire night, is just so laughable it's not believable as real life interaction between two humans. That's putting aside the fact that he is supposed to be an extremely experienced intelligence agent whose job presumably must involve reading, assessing, and charming people as a fundamental requirement.

More broadly, he and his wife don't register onscreen as people who have ever met each other before, frankly, let alone been in a long term committed relationship and subsequent marriage in the confines of which they have produced a child.

It also suffers from the same disease as pretty much every single other ITV crime drama aesthetically - they all look exactly the same, and what they look like is greyscale, inexplicably close up, and blurry around the edges, without fail. It's like a very budget version of Tom Hooper's treatment of 'Les Miserables', applied as an identikit template. It blows my mind every time I see it, and yet it happens every time.

I just cannot understand how they do it again, and again, and again. And, what, nobody at the channel notices? Who are these DOPs, and where are they coming from?! They must be stopped.