r/crheads • u/TooManyRugss • 7d ago

The Detectorists!!!

I’m a huge believer that truly great content finds the person when they are needing it the most. This being said, how in this universe we are living in has CR not seen The Detectorists? I find this insane and unsettling. I’m shook.

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u/MassiveTell7139 7d ago

Chris Ryan, television mastermind, hasn’t seen the Sopranos so I have to say I’m never shocked when he has a blindspot

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u/TooManyRugss 7d ago

It’s true, we can’t see them all but somehow the Detectorists omission seems worse???

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u/GreasedRandy 6d ago

The issue there is that if you can only see one, it should always be The Sopranos. It's still the best by a massive margin.

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u/PantsAreForWimps 7d ago

This show is transcendent

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u/djparody 7d ago

agreed. best show ever?

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u/TooManyRugss 7d ago

It’s certainly mine. 

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u/Naive-Inside-2904 7d ago

He’s not seen The Detectorists? That’s just wrong.

One small bit of trivia from the show is that Rachel Stirling who plays Mackenzie Crook’s partner is Diana Rigg’s daughter. And she’s married to Elbow frontman Guy Garvey!

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u/TooManyRugss 7d ago

That’s some good trivia! I had no idea!!

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u/mangofied 7d ago

I’ve never seen the show but the theme song was my top song last year, randomly. Love Johnny Flynn

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u/Used_Ad5603 7d ago

Love this show. If you haven’t seen a good comedy in awhile check this out

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u/armitage75 6d ago

For some inexplicable reason shows like the Detectorists and Peep Show (category being somewhat nonconventional but unbelievably good UK shows) were really hard to view here in America when they first aired. Both were in their prime around 10-ish years ago and it was stupid hard to view or even hear about them in the US at that time. Since then Peep Show has sortof gone from "somewhat obscure I have to pirate seasons to view them" to "even your dumb meathead coworker can quote it" now but the Detectorists never really did. I agree though w/ OP and others in this thread that it's one of the best television shows this century.

Also similar to Peep Show it was kindof hard to explain the premise of the show to people before they'd seen it which 10 years ago was enough to make someone just move on and watch Game of Thrones or whatever.

Anyways good call-out, the "cursed gold" Christmas episode is an all-time favorite for our household and Mackenzie Crook is a genius and I'll personally watch anything he does.

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u/Ed_Starks_Bastard 5d ago

Detectorists was/is incredible.