Set at a fictional holiday camp, the episode is affectionately billed by its producers as \u201cGrantchester meets Dirty Dancing\u201d, and homages to the film are everywhere,\u00a0to the point where you may confuse the rattle of Will\u2019s beloved motorcycle with the intro to Eric Carmen\u2019s \u201cHungry Eyes\u201d.<\/p>\n
The film\u2019s influence is stamped all over the plot, too, as Will finds himself in Baby\u2019s corner (ahem), getting involved in a short-lived holiday romance (complete with moonlit swims) with a member of the entertainment staff, Sunny West (a made-up name as it turns out, much like \u2018Baby\u2019).<\/p>\n
Adapted from the fictional\u00a0Grantchester Mysteries novels<\/a> by James Runcie, the series is set in the real-life titular village, where Grantchester is filmed<\/a>. However, the season premiere takes place entirely on location at the fictional Merries Holiday Camp.<\/p>\n Among the guests are our unlikely crime-solving duo, motorcycle-riding vicar\u00a0Will Davenport\u00a0and local detective DI Geordie Keating (played by\u00a0Tom Brittney and Robson Green, respectively, in the Grantchester cast<\/a>).<\/p>\n They\u2019re each accompanied by their respective households, including Will\u2019s landlady, Mrs Chapman (\u201cMrs C\u201d), and the sweet-natured closeted curate, Leonard Finch (played by Al Weaver).<\/p>\n As viewers will remember, the end of season five saw Will break his self-imposed vow of celibacy (with a nun, no less), and he arrives at Merries with a new-found spring in his step.<\/p>\n He\u2019s also keenly aware of his single status \u2013 there\u2019s a sequence where the Keatings, the Chapmans, and Leonard and his secret boyfriend Daniel all claim to have been enjoying a \u2018snooze\u2019 in their respective cabins.<\/p>\n However, Will\u2019s pursuit of romance \u2013 and Geordie\u2019s much-needed break from coppering \u2013 are interrupted when, of course, a body is found: Roy Reeves, the seemingly happy-go-lucky camp owner, has died under suspicious circumstances. Has he been poisoned? And was he the intended target?<\/p>\n The ensuing investigation doesn\u2019t have much bearing on the rest of the series \u2013 but the same can\u2019t be said for a series of incriminating photographs, featuring Leonard and boyfriend Daniel.<\/p>\n Over the course of the episode, Leonard rejects the unexpected advances of another member of the Merries entertainment staff, Brian. Following an incident where Brian accidentally discovers Leonard in bed with Daniel (he had been hoping to catch the former alone), he reports Leonard to Will.<\/p>\n It\u2019s clear to both the viewer and to Brian that Will isn\u2019t going to do anything with the information he\u2019s been given, so a jealous Brian secretly snaps photos of Leonard tenderly wiping ice cream from Daniel\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n At the end of the episode, we see Brian in his dark room, developing the photos. But where will he send the images? Will he take them to the police?<\/p>\n In 1958, when Grantchester season six is set, \u2018\u2018any acts of gross indecency with male persons\u201d were still against the law, under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.<\/p>\n In the UK, it wasn\u2019t until 1967 that the Sexual Offences Act decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men, both over the age of 21.<\/p>\n According to producer Richard Cookson, the events at Merries holiday camp \u2013 and specifically the looming scandal for Leonard \u2013 impacts the rest of the season.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cOut of this picture-perfect 50s summer holiday spins the terrible thread that weaves through the whole series: Leonard\u2019s homosexuality is placed on trial \u2013 literally \u2013 when his private life is exposed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt rocks Geordie\u2019s faith in the law; it puts Will in the impossible position where telling the truth will doom his friend; it challenges Mrs C\u2019s love for her boy; and it mobilises Cathy\u2019s burgeoning activism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> Grantchester will continue on ITV on Fridays. You can order the Grantchester Mysteries books<\/a> from Amazon. <\/strong>Check out what else is on with our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>, or visit our Drama<\/a> hub for more news and features.<\/b><\/p>\n A cliffhanger ending saw Leonard Finch’s life about to unravel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3948,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-scaled.jpg",2560,1652,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-300x194.jpg",300,194,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-768x496.jpg",768,496,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-1024x661.jpg",800,516,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-1536x991.jpg",1536,991,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/grantchester-season-6-episode-1-review-and-recap-scandal-and-heartache-looms-for-grantchesters-curate-2048x1322.jpg",2048,1322,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A cliffhanger ending saw Leonard Finch's life about to unravel.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Grantchester"\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Grantchester-Leonard-d40041c.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C400"\" "\\"\"Grantchester-Leonard\"\\"")
<\/div>What will happen to Leonard Finch in Grantchester season six?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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