"Endeavour" fools us for a time once Shaun Evans' detective gets back to work sober, sharper and ready to rejoin DCI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) in the field. The young Morse's return comes not a moment too soon, since a murder at the Oxford Concert Orchestra brings him to his old university stomping ground. This familiarity and Thursday's grounding presence make us hope that Morse will somehow remain on the straight path.
But his fate was written and seen decades ago on "Inspector Morse." Those stories, which ran between 1987 and 2000, cemented Endeavour Morse in our minds as a man who values his solitude almost as much as he prizes his ale and whiskey as author Colin Dexter imagined him.
