Everything to Remember Ahead of ‘Grantchester’s Final Season
As 'Grantchester' heads into its final stretch, here is everything fans need to remember ahead of Season 11.
Once upon a time, in a little town called Grantchester in 1954, a vicar named Sidney Chambers (James Norton) had just finished officiating a funeral when he was asked to look into the death to see if it was really a suicide. His investigation brought him face-to-face with the local Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green), and a beautiful friendship was born. Geordie became friends not just with Sidney but with the Vicarage housekeeper, Mrs. Sylvia Maguire (Tessa Peake-Jones), and the closeted curate Leonard Finch (Al Weaver).
Geordie, married to Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth), was struggling to raise four children on a shoestring budget, which led him to an affair with the office secretary, Margaret (Selin Hizli), and nearly ended his marriage. Sidney was nursing a broken heart because he had to officiate the upcoming wedding of the upper-class girl he carried a torch for, Amanda Kendall (Morven Christie), to Guy Hopkins (Tom Austen). The two became slightly toxic, co-dependent drinking buddies, with Sidney womanizing (including also sleeping with Margaret!) to try to forget Amanda.
Amanda and Guy wind up divorcing, leading to her father (Pip Torrens) disowning her just before she gives birth during the series’s only Christmas special, as she and Sidney finally get together. Leonard gets engaged to a woman on the advice of the new Archdeacon, Gabriel Atubo (Gary Beadle), after falling in love with photographer Daniel (Oliver Dimsdale). Leonard’s sham engagement ends quickly, as does Sidney and Amanda’s relationship, which sours when he realizes he would rather stay in Grantchester as a priest than move with her to London. One relation does flourish: Mrs. M falls in love with the rich Jack Chapman (Nick Brimble), and luckily, her AWOL husband turns up dead in one of the Season 3 cases, freeing her to become Mrs. C.
