Masterpiece Theater

[Drunk Monk]

E5:’Now that’s what I’m talking about. What a sweet ep. Mrs. Hall goes to meet her semi-estranged son at a train station. He’s in the navy about to be shipped off. It’s a poignant story and being an old softie, I got all misty. There’s a nicely played out involvement with a hearing impaired tea server. With her away, Tristan takes over as housekeeper and Siegfried takes a young boy on as his shadow as part of some school thing. The boy is an aspiring vet and Siegfried’s tender side emerges and he explains the back story between him, Tris, and his dead wife, which is also touching. James & Helen are at the family farm and Helen sorts some stuff out with her younger sister Jenny. That’s fluff, but the rest of the ep was all feels, with tea and shortbread. That’s just how we like Darrowby to be.