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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted for the most part, as the series doesn't shy away from addressing [[DeliberateValuesDissonance 1950s racism, misogyny and especially homophobia]]. Possibly played straight, however, in the case of Jennifer, the new police secretary in series 6. Her actress, Melissa Johns, was born without a right forearm, and yet not a single character (even those presented as unlikeable) makes a comment about her disability. If anything, her gender seems to cause more issues for her.[[note]]The series doesn't make it clear whether it's a case of DisabledCharacterDisabledActor or if Jennifer is not considered disabled in-universe.[[/note]]
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Bonnie mainly exists to be Will's love interest [[spoiler:and wife as of the end of series 7]] and has very few scenes without him. It doesn't help that for most of series 8 she's CommutingOnABus.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Bonnie mainly exists to be Will's love interest [[spoiler:and wife as of the end of series 7]] and has very few scenes without him. It doesn't help that for most of series 8 she's CommutingOnABus.CommutingOnABus, presumably as a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot.
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** A minor case with the police secretaries - Margaret (series 2 and 3), who has onscreen love affairs with Sidney [[spoiler:and Geordie, who is also married]] is replaced in series 6 with Jennifer, who seems to keep a personal distance from the leads.
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* PutOnABus: Sidney departs in series 4 to join the American Civil Rights movement alongside new flame Violet.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Bonnie mainly exists to be Will's love interest [[spoiler:and wife as of the end of series 7]] and has very few scenes without him. It doesn't help that for most of series 8 she's CommutingOnABus.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Will Davenport is younger and doesn't struggle with his faith as much as Sidney did (at least until series 8 when he [[spoiler:accidentally kills a man in a motorbike accident]]. Will also prefers to listen to rock while Sidney was a jazz aficionado.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Will Davenport is younger and doesn't struggle with his faith as much as Sidney did (at least until series 8 when he [[spoiler:accidentally kills a man in a motorbike accident]].accident]]). Will also prefers to listen to rock while Sidney was a jazz aficionado.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Will Davenport is younger and doesn't struggle with his faith as much as Sidney did. Will also prefers to listen to rock while Sidney was a jazz aficionado.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Will Davenport is younger and doesn't struggle with his faith as much as Sidney did.did (at least until series 8 when he [[spoiler:accidentally kills a man in a motorbike accident]]. Will also prefers to listen to rock while Sidney was a jazz aficionado.
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Prior to the airing of Season 8 it was announced that this would be Tom Brittney's penultimate season, with Will due to be replaced by Alphy Kotteram (Rishi Nair) in Season 9.
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* ThePlace: Grantchester is a village in Cambridgeshire.
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* DefiantStrip: In Episode #8.3, a group of female students protesting the treatment of women in art and academia strip down to their underwear during a garden party at a college. One of them then strips off completely while making an impassioned speech and is arrested by Geordie. She refuses to get dressed even at the police station, leading to several awkward moments.
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* DefiantStrip: In Episode episode #8.3, a group of female students protesting the treatment of women in art and academia strip down to their underwear during a garden party at a college. One of them then strips off completely while making an impassioned speech and is arrested by Geordie. She refuses to get dressed even at the police station, leading to several awkward moments.
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* SamusIsAGirl: In Episode #8.1, Geordie arrests a mysterious biker known only as 'Lighting', only to discover that when 'lightning' removes their their helmet and their long hair tumbles free that 'Lightning' is a girl.
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* SamusIsAGirl: In Episode episode #8.1, Geordie arrests a mysterious biker known only as 'Lighting', only to discover that when 'lightning' removes their their helmet and their long hair tumbles free that 'Lightning' is a girl.
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* SmokescreenCrime: In episode #8.3, the murderer, after killing the porter, cuts a priceless painting from its frame and takes it with them to make it look like the porter had been after interrupting a robbery.
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* SmokescreenCrime: In episode #8.3, the murderer, after killing the porter, cuts a priceless painting from its frame and takes it with them to make it look like the porter had been killed after interrupting a robbery.
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* DefiantStrip: In Episode #8.3, a groups group of female students protesting the treatment of women in art and academia strip down to their underwear during a garden party at a college. One of them then strips of off completely while making an impassioned speech and is arrested by Geordie. She refuses to get dressed even at the police station, leading to several awkward moments.
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* SmokescreenCrime: In episode #8.3, the murderer, after killing the porter, cuts a priceless painting from its frame and takes it with them to make it look like the porter had been after interrupting a robbery.
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* DefiantStrip: In Episode #8.3, a groups of female students protesting the treatment of women in art and academia strip down to their underwear during a garden party at a college. One of them then strips of completely while making an impassioned speech and is arrested by Geordie. She refuses to get dressed even at the police station, leading to several awkward moments.
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* SamusIsAGirl: In Episode #8.1, Geordie arrests a mysterious biker known only as 'Lighting', only to discover that when 'lightning' removes their their helmet and their long hair tumbles free that 'Lightning' is a girl.
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* BrokenPedestal: Over the course of the second series, [[spoiler:Sidney's faith in the Archdeacon is shattered as he learns of his role in Sam's sexual improprieties]].
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** Over the course of the second series, [[spoiler:Sidney's faith in the Archdeacon is shattered as he learns of his role in Sam's sexual improprieties]].
** Over the course of the second series, [[spoiler:Sidney's faith in the Archdeacon is shattered as he learns of his role in Sam's sexual improprieties]].
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* FourthDateMarriage: Will struggles to articulate his attraction to Ellie Harding and proposes marriage very quickly. Ellie shoots him down because she won't enter into a marriage just so she can help a man get over his hang ups.
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* FourthDateMarriage: Will struggles to articulate his attraction to reporter Ellie Harding and proposes marriage very quickly. Ellie shoots him down because she won't enter into a marriage just so she can help a man get over his hang ups.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: A lot of more stereotypical macho men tend to dismiss Sidney and Will's masculinity due to their being priests and working in a gentle profession. However, Sidney is a combat veteran with deep-seated trauma while Will is a former boxer with seething anger issues and both are quite happy, when given an excuse, to punch someone.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: A lot of more stereotypical macho men tend to dismiss Sidney and Will's masculinity due to their being priests and working in a gentle profession. However, Sidney is a combat veteran with deep-seated trauma while Will is a former boxer with seething anger issues and both are quite happy, when given an excuse, a reason, to punch someone.
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* TheBoxingEpisode: In episode #5.5, after a boxing match between Lucas and Matt, the door is locked. Vic and Will break in and find them both unconscious. It looks like a double suicide, but Vic knows more than he is letting on.
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Sidney goes absolutely apeshit on Geordie after the latter makes fun of his neverending support for the recently-executed Gary Bell in the most callous way possible: comparing Gary's manslaughter of Abigail Redmond to Sidney having killed during the war. Naturally, this pushes the previously patient Sidney past his limit.]]
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** [[spoiler:Sidney goes absolutely apeshit on Geordie after the latter makes fun of his neverending support for the recently-executed Gary Bell in the most callous way possible: comparing Gary's manslaughter of Abigail Redmond to Sidney having killed during the war. Naturally, this pushes the previously patient Sidney past his limit.]]
** [[spoiler:Sidney goes absolutely apeshit on Geordie after the latter makes fun of his neverending support for the recently-executed Gary Bell in the most callous way possible: comparing Gary's manslaughter of Abigail Redmond to Sidney having killed during the war. Naturally, this pushes the previously patient Sidney past his limit.]]
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* WunzaPlot: One's a priest, one's a copper. Together, TheyFightCrime!
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* WunzaPlot: One's a priest, one's a copper. Together, TheyFightCrime!they fight crime!
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* TheUnfairSex: ''Grantchester'' has a recurring problem with this. When Amanda is going through a divorce with her husband, she demands to know why Sidney never rekindled their relationship if he loved her, even though she was married at the time, and ''she'' broke off her relationship with ''him'' in the first place because of her engagement. Will doesn't get treated any better; he's depicted as being in the wrong for refusing Bonnie's request to have sex after he's just come out of an unhealthy relationship with Maya, an unrepentantly adulterous woman. Will and Bonnie agree to stay friends, and Will and Maya get back together after she leaves her fiancé, yet when Bonnie shows up the next morning and discovers them together, Will gets chewed out by Bonnie ''and'' Maya for "leading" Bonnie on when he did no such thing; Bonnie barged in and professed her love to Will unprompted (while also telling him that she hates him). Keep in mind that this is all taking place on a show where adulterous men are depicted as either monstrous or, like Geordie, in need of moral reform at the hands of [[WomenAreWiser upright women]] and their male sympathizers.
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* TheUnfairSex: ''Grantchester'' has a recurring problem with this. When Amanda is going through a divorce with her husband, she demands to know why Sidney never rekindled their relationship if he loved her, even though she was married at the time, and ''she'' broke off her relationship with ''him'' ''Sidney'' in the first place because of her engagement. Will doesn't get treated any better; he's depicted as being in the wrong for refusing Bonnie's request to have sex after he's just come out of an unhealthy relationship with Maya, an unrepentantly adulterous woman. Will and Bonnie agree to stay friends, and Will and Maya get back together after she leaves her fiancé, yet when Bonnie shows up the next morning and discovers them together, Will gets chewed out by Bonnie ''and'' Maya for "leading" Bonnie on when he did no such thing; Bonnie barged in and professed her love to Will unprompted (while also telling him that she hates him). Keep in mind that this is all taking place on a show where adulterous men are depicted as either monstrous or, like Geordie, in need of moral reform at the hands of [[WomenAreWiser upright women]] and their male sympathizers.
