Utterly beautiful.
What a cast, fabulous storylines and a showcase for purity in spirit.
😀
Just Sublime! Loved the Pacific flag raising reference
Mrs Binners walked down the aisle to the Johnny Flynn theme tune in June (to officially become Mrs Binners) because it’s just so utterly bloody lovely. Think it’s our favourite programme ever 🙂
Just perfect.
“Fragile” on the box Lance was carrying..
Perfect.
Pacific flag raising? Did I miss a bit, the whole scene was Witness, even the music.
Good spot.
Loved it. Not as much as the perfectly formed first two series, but still wonderful all the same.
Thanks to the cast and crew for making it.
DVD will be going on pre-order.
Good spot.
+1
Can't believe its the last one. Anyone know where Mr Crook lives? I want to picket his house. Genuinely bereft!
Aye fair dues they pulled it out of the bag at the end there.
Watching it, it felt like the final episode of a Programme... I didn't know until googling it was actually the end. I'm sad, very very sad.
If someone could win euromillions on friday and keep it going, that would be great, thanks.
He lives in Suffolk.
And that yellow TR7 is his..
I have enjoyed every second of it. But I'm glad they have finished the story with enough to go back to for a special episode if they ever wanted to. It's better than the current trend to keep a series going because it's popular, not because it is still brilliant.
One of the best episodes for ages. It could have gone on for hours as far as I was concerned. The spear point at the start was brilliant!
Christmas Special on Dec 17th but I think it's just the 2015 repeat.
I've got every one of these episodes recorded but I'm sill going to buy the box set. Maybe if they sell enough, Mackenzie will be persuaded to make another series.
An ending.
No need to see any more. We can all imagine our own version of what happens next.
Here's to the endless summer that was Detectorists.
No need to see any more. We can all imagine our own version of what happens next.
Aye indeed,a very nice way to finish.
[i]Mr Crook should do a cycle club next
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Agree with Binners, my absolute favourite tv ever. I could watch it forever. Seriously considering a trip to Suffolk to visit some of the locations.
“We’re going to prison” quickly changed to “ you’re going to prison”.
Perfect ending - probably going to be the only programme that I'll buy the box set and watch again.
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It's just the most adorable show. I almost got a bit emotional when they welcomed Simon and Garfunkel into the DMDC
The proposal was sublime.
Indeed the most excellent of TV.
Beautiful is the perfect word.
Thank you to STW for originally flagging this 8)
Just brilliant.
The resurrection of the Sheila's horrible lemonade joke was great.
The resurrection of the Sheila's horrible lemonade joke was great.
shame they didn't show Phil's reaction though!
shame they didn't show Phil's reaction though!
Well it made him fall off the ladder!
damn i missed that
I have watched this beautiful show from the very first broadcast of the first series. I can't claim any great insight to how good it was going to be. I hardly knew Mackenzie Crook as I never got into The Office and thought Pirates of the Carribean was childish nonsense after suffering the first film.
Toby Jones is one of my favourite actors though which is what piqued my interest into why he would appear in such a strange (on paper) plotline. It was obvious though from the first few minutes of Epiosde 1 that this was going to be something special.
Lance: Anythin'?
Andy: ****-all. Three shotgun caps and a Blakey
Andy: What you got?
Lance: Ring-pull, '83, Tizer.
Andy: What d'you do wth 'em?
Lance: Bag 'em up, stick 'em on eBay. People buy this shit.
Andy: Sad tits.
Lance: You said it.
Cue theme tune. Sublime.
Knighthood for Mackenzie Crooke.
Best telly of the year.
Pub?
Utterly wonderful TV. What's really sad is that shows of this quality are now a niche. The majority of the people I work with don't get it or find it slow and unfunny. It's quite sad but makes me thankful we have people who will still write and fund shows of this quality.
[i]The majority of the people I work with don't get it or find it slow and unfunny[/i]
Hmm... maybe that's why they added the naff, "standard" comedy to the previous 2 episodes, to make it more popular..? Never mind now, it redeemed itself with the last one. Hope it doesn't come back, ending on a high is bestest.
This and the Royle Family, could only be made in England.
Won't stop the Yanks trying to remake it.. see The Inbetweeners 😉
Won't stop the Yanks trying to remake it.. see The Inbetweeners 😉
Or The Office..
Can I just ask, have you all watched Early Doors? Another firm favourite of a show where absolutely nothing happens. Just people sat in the pub, but the dialogue is so beautifully written, the acting so good, the characters so likeable and well developed, and the humour so gentle, its just wonderful to watch
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I might have to revisit it again soon
My favourite TV programme ever, ever, ever. This series may not have hit the soaring heights of the previous two but I guess that's what comes with tying everything up. As close to perfection for me as I've found in a TV programme. Proper feel good telly. Makes me want to buy a Minelab Quattro MP off Gumtree and join the DMDC. I'll second Binners' suggestion of Early Doors for those who haven't seen it.
Can I just ask, have you all watched Early Doors?
Embarrassingly I only found out about this about a year ago.
Bought the box set.
Loved it.
Couldn't record the last one,is it going to be showing again soon.I was hoping the Christmas specials were new material.Very miffed to miss the finale.
iPlayer
Early doors is brilliant and, with the Royle Family, shows Craig Cash is a genius.
I’ve got all the Detectorists on the Sky box. Think I’ll rewatch them all at Christmas.
Pub?
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(Just caught up on iplayer. Feeling a bit emotional. Sad tit.)
Psa- Early doors is on stage show tour in 2018
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Oh my god, Andy’s face when Becky was bidding - it was a picture!
Agree with Binners, my absolute favourite tv ever. I could watch it forever. Seriously considering a trip to Suffolk to visit some of the locations
Do it. It’s a lovely part of the world and finding the locations would be a great way to see it.
I’m fortunate to recognise most of it. The scene where Andy digs in the ground before his Africa interview was my old school. I recognised the exact spot where he had a sit and think. I used to do the same.
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Just watched it twice. Sublime.
Am I pushing it too far to think that almost everyone found their Treasure? Andy and Lance obvs, The girls proposal, S + G got back into legit detecting with new friends, T found a rare button. I have a feeling T's missus's treasure was making cake for everyone and feeling appreciated.
Russell?
Anyway, two duff ones this series IMHO but the rest I really enjoyed and this last one was a masterpiece. Love how they've been teasing with waving metal detectors in the air and then instead of a bit of upward beeping the magic magpies dropped the coins down. Brilliant.
I just caught up with last nights finale.
As you have all pointed out, perfect.
Most would have torn the arse out of them finding the gold, but the way it was left with the tree saying ‘thanks for saving me’ made we fill up.
Just perfect.
I have no access to iPlayer,will it be repeated in the usual channels?
My wife has sat through the whole series defiantly looking into her mobile and infrequently mumbling the word 'boring' whenever I laughed out loud.
Just watched the final episode (twice) on iplayer.. When it finished she looked at me genuinely upset that it was the final one.
❗
Never has perfect been more appropriate.
"Detectorists is a gem of a series, a buddy tale of two men who are as far from being 'lads' as it is possible to imagine, all set in beautiful English countryside where the sun always seems to shine – or at least peak through the clouds.
Their constant search for treasure below ground has always carried symbolic weight: searching for a purpose in life and, perhaps above all, love.
So what happens now, when Mackenzie Crook's metal detecting enthusiast Andy has left with his young family to follow his dreams in Botswana, and Toby Jones's character Lance has unearthed actual treasure?
Andy returned in the Detectorists Christmas special to find his best friend dealing with the fallout of finding buried gold; that was in 2015, and while the BBC has always left the door open for another series, creator Crook was initially unsure about whether he had another series in him.
“People point out to me – this wasn’t conscious – that the first series was about relationships,” says Crook. “And the second series was about parenthood, with Andy and Becky [played by Rachel Stirling] having a child. If that’s the case, then this third series is perhaps about where you belong, putting down roots and settling somewhere. If anything, by the end of this series, hopefully they will have have found a place, and we as an audience are happy to let them get on with it.”
Inspired by haunting song Magpie by The Unthanks, Crook has brought Andy and family back home to the UK, where he finds himself living with his dreaded mother in law (played by Diana Rigg, Stirling’s real life Mum).
Lance meanwhile is living with his teenage daughter, and his ghastly ex Maggie (Lucy Benjamin) is back on the scene, poor chap.
Crook, the former Office star who writes and directs, is certain that this will be the last series. He has always enjoyed creative freedom on this show, and has turned down lucrative work on Hollywood blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean for his passion project. So why end it now?
“I took a year off to figure out whether I wanted to do any more, whether there was any more in there; yes, it took a while to realise that I did want to do six more episodes to finish. I don’t want to make any sort of big, dramatic announcement that 'never again', but I can’t see myself going back to it.
“I’ve always sort of never quite bought it when actors and directors say that they are leaving behind some friends and that these characters have become friends, but honestly I think I’ll miss Lance. I’ll miss Toby obviously, but Lance won’t be around any more. We had a laugh, me and Lance.”
So, it seems, did actor Toby Jones. The two of them are seated in the The Crown pub, a lovely country house hostelry in the Suffolk town of Framlingham where Detectorists is set; they look like they have just taken a break from a holiday rather than an arduous day of filming.
“I’m having the time of my life, it is really like a country holiday,” smiles a sunburned Crook beneath a baseball cap. He has developed a love of the hobby in his spare time, which he indulges in where he can and in the wood he has bought for his family near Essex.
It’s harder to describe Jones as chilled out. There’s a more frantic energy to him, and he very definitely has not caught the sun. His character is pricklier too - in fact Lance was originally imagined as a more “mercenary” character he says, a flicker of which survived in episode one when he seemed to be encouraging Andy to sell his finds online. But while the 51-year old star doesn’t feel he is very like Lance, he does believe that his work as an actor is “similar to metal detecting”.
“If it wasn’t a project that I wanted to do, I wouldn’t do it, you know?" he says. "I’m not doing stuff that I have to do, you know?
"I really like my job, I really like doing Detectorists, and the jobs I am lucky enough to get offered, I stand by them – it’s not for a need to work. The show is one of the better decisions I’ve made in my life."
Jones says that Crook has more of a “hinterland” – hobbies and interests outside his work – than anyone he knows. That includes metal detecting, something Jones has not got the hang of because he can’t get to grips with the technology, but which Crook is devoted to.
“What I like about Mackenzie in general is I think he is unique in the industry. There’s no one else working like Mackenzie works, and he’s not following any template.”
Crook chips in: “Sometimes I’ve been asked about how ambitious I am, and I don’t think I’m ambitious. This is almost like another one of my hobbies, I enjoy it that much. But yes, it’s as important as my woodland or my garden or my coin collection.”
The locals, incidentally, are very proud of Detectorists, but remain at a respectful distance as the crew pootle around town. You can even walk round key locations – the municipal hut where the fictional Danebury Metal Detecting Society meet was unlocked when the day I visited and I popped in. It had just the smell of mildew and tea that I was hoping for.
“There something about a small project like this that everybody is involved in for the right reasons, and those reasons aren’t money,” says Crook, who is talking to the BBC about making a film next year, an “evolution” of Detectorists with “a rural setting”.
As he prepares to say goodbye, it’s clear Crook has found something beautiful in the show, and a hobby he loves. And then he tells me something rather lovely.
“I’ve got better, yes. I’ve found more stuff; I found my first gold at the beginning of this year,” he says, head bent shyly down. “I don’t know quite what it is – it’s in the British Museum being researched at the moment.”
This may be the last Detectorists, but one thing's for sure: Crook and Jones will keep on coming up with precious things. "
"Crook, who is talking to the BBC about making a film next year, an “evolution” of Detectorists with “a rural setting"
Ooh, there's hope...
Loved it all, great telly.
Likely to be something completely new I know, but anyone else thinking (hoping) cottage restoration might be the 'evolution'?
It was properly fantastic, and it's dusty in here again now I'm thinking about it... sad tit.
Im not sad.
What a joy it's been to watch.... Properly Soulful.
Better to have loved and lost.
"I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind"
I have no access to iPlayer, will it be repeated in the usual channels?
It's available on iTunes if you don't mind paying.
Other than that, standard dubious media obtaining options would work.
"Detectorist Weather"
Is going to be a thing for me from now on.
I've never really *got* buying the box set but I think all of the Detectorist series may be the exception - perfect tv.
Half laughed and half sobbed when they won the house auction - it really moved me.
My wife has sat through the whole series defiantly looking into her mobile and infrequently mumbling the word 'boring' whenever I laughed out loud.
My wife doesn't even know Detectorists exists. I've kept it all to myself, watching it in secret, knowing she just wouldn't get it and spoil it for me.
,is it going to be showing again soon.
All of series 3 is going to be shown on BBC3 on New Years Eve 😀 What a way to see in the New Year!! 
Couple of nagging questions though. Why didn't Lance give Andy some of his lottery winnings to help him buy the house?? Is Lance going to have to buy some more gold coins and bury them like in the Christmas special????
Watched 3 of the first series with my son last night.
He had been scrolling through Netflix and asked "What's Detectorists like?" .I turned with a smile and replied in my best 'Lance' voice.
" You my boy,are in for a treat" 🙂
Couple of nagging questions though. Why didn't Lance give Andy some of his lottery winnings to help him buy the house??
I thought that was the way it was going to go after Episode 5 after Andy was talking about the house he had found. Who wouldn't have at least lent their best mate £40K out of a large lottery win that they weren't using?
It would have made a more heartening storyline I think than Becky's mum. I think they wanted the surprise of the auction but they could have achieved that by Lance colluding with Becky.
Why didn't Lance give Andy some of his lottery winnings to help him buy the house??
That crossed my mind, but the fact Lance has nearly half a mill tucked away would have properly ruined the suspense and coming up with some plot explanation for where the cash went would have been a bit awkward.
So I chose to ignore that plot flaw.
I'm more concerned that I *think* almost everyone found their treasure. But what about Russell? Did I miss his treasure? Was he content without treasure? Or am I stretching it too far with my "Everyone found their treasure theory"?
"I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind"
Yeah, that's the line that gets me too.
It would have made a more heartening storyline I think than Becky's mum.
The series ending with everyone coming through for everyone else was at its most heartening where it was old problems/rivalries/awkward relationships that were overcome. The scene where Andy tells Becky's mum about quitting his job was properly affecting… and for her to come though for them when it mattered most was fanatastic. Properly heart warming. Much more effective than a mate helping out.
While we're discussing plot flaws something that always irked a little with me was Lance's TR7. Not the car itself, it was absolutely perfect for the character. But someone who is fastidious enough to trim up a block of cheese and has untold financial resources would surely have had their pride and joy running like clockwork?
I felt the quirkiness was little over-played there.
surely have had their pride and joy running like clockwork?
He got Toni to sort out the engine, romance will do strange things to a man............ 😯
[i]Lance colluding with Becky[/i]
Can I collude with Becky please?
(Sorry have I lowered the tone (again)?)
Becky's mother is Veronica.
In real life. 🙂
I forgive the TR7 rattliness however odd it seems, that car gave us the scene in series 2 where he describes it as Mimosa Yellow. Talking to the mirror as he's preparing to meet his daughter. One of my many favourite scenes.
I thought Lance's TR7 running badly was mirroring his rocky patch with Toni, as she was now looking after it for him.
[i]In real life.[/i]
We know. And it was mentioned earlier in the thread for those what didn't.
Diana Rigg doesn't half look like my mum now. Shame I didn't have a sister. What does that mean?
And Diana Rigg's married to the lead singer out of Kasabian too. Or something.
Perhaps he had it and it was ropey before the lottery win. I don't think he likes change.
I thought Lance's TR7 running badly was mirroring his rocky patch with Toni, as she was now looking after it for him.
Nice, I'm going with that (rather excellent) interpretation.
Rachel Stirling is married to Guy Garvey of Elbow, who I'm a dead ringer for apparently, so maybe....
He bought the TR7 after series 1 from the props department, in the hope there might be a series 2 🙂
[i]Rachel Stirling is married to Guy Garvey of Elbow[/i]
Also earlier in the thread. Strange that her mum is married to a pop singer too eh? 😆
Toni "fixed" Lance's TR7 in the Christmas 2015 episode of Series 2. It's been running rough as **** all through Series 3 which is not a good advertisement for female equality is it?
To be honest I never really liked the Toni character at all. Probably the weakest of all the ones Mackenzie created. Now if she'd actually made the thing run like shit off a shovel...
Just managed to watch the last episode.
I am really gutted that seems to be the last one.
What a beautifully written comedy, with moments that make you laugh out loud, to where you almost want to cry. In the last series where Sheila and Lance were in the pub, and she alluded to thinking about how old a child would be, a great moment that got you really thinking about her character.
Now working at a Heritage trust, all my colleagues love it as it is so close to the real life. They have sat through talks on buttons and even been asked to leave the scout hut while the club talked about their secret locations.