Masterpiece PBS’s current longest-running show, “Endeavour,” will end with Season 9. What can fans expect from the final season?
Breaking the news: After eight popular seasons, Masterpiece PBS announced earlier this year that “Endeavour” would end with Season 9.
- “After ten phenomenally successful years, producers Mammoth Screen, screenwriter Russell Lewis, Shaun Evans and Roger Allam have mutually decided to bring the internationally renowned ‘Endeavour’ to a close with Season 9,” Masterpiece announced.
- “Endeavour” Season 9 finished filming its last season in August. From the show’s Twitter account: “All good things must come to an end. #Endeavour had its last filming day today, and after 10 amazing years there are still smiles on set!”
What they’re saying: Shaun Evans, who plays the titular character, hinted that fans might be in store for a sad ending to “Endeavour” Season 9. More specifically, Morse’s relationship with Joan Thursday and Inspector Thursday — and the possibility for an unhappy end.
- “I think it’s far more heartbreaking, and therefore, more memorable, if it ends in a melancholy, sad way,” Evans told Masterpiece.
- “So yes, it’s sad in one regard, but in another way, I feel satisfied my job is done,” Evans continued. “Also, I think it’s just far more truthful. It’s more truthful for there to be highs and lows within people’s relationships, and for him not to remain going on parallel lines together.”
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Details: “Endeavour” Season 8 ends on a hopeful note — after spending most of 1971 drinking away the pain of his love affair, Morse agrees to go to rehab.
- The show doesn’t end without a few cliffhangers — Inspector Thursday’s son, Sam, never returned from leave. And while it seems that Morse and Inspector Thursday’s relationship is on the mend, things are still on shaky ground.
- Will fans see Sam return in “Endeavour” Season 9? According to TV Insider, “Producers have promised the return of some ‘familiar faces.’”