![]() ![]() ![]() Scroll down to see who scored Honorable Mention shout-outs this week… ![]() Instead, we’ll celebrate Green, who’s already weathered the exit of original costar James Norton, getting the chance to build another relationship from scratch. We’ll miss Brittney, and the effortless banter between he and Green that returned in the final moments of the finale, when he leaves the series next season, but we won’t mourn the loss. He was also begging Will not to make his surrogate father watch him slowly disappear.Īs the camera lingered longer on Green’s face than Brittney’s at the end of the scene, we remembered something else: This show centers on him. Geordie was asking Will not to jeopardize his marriage the way Geordie, a former WWII POW, had using alcohol to deal with PTSD. “I mean it,” he added with a tremble that told us this was as much a fearful plea as an angry order. “Well, you… try… harder,” Geordie shouted, unable to look at him until the last second. “You are gonna have to knock this on the head, son.” ![]() “I thought God was your help,” he continued, shaking his head. I’ve seen what they do to people, and so have you,” Geordie barked. Then there was the weariness in his eyes and the changes in his voice. Green’s change in posture alone during the scene was striking, from Geordie standing tall to physically wrestle the bottle from Will’s jacket pocket to him sitting opposite Will looking nearly as broken and shifting uncomfortably in his seat. Geordie confronted his partner in crime-solving, vicar Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), about the pills he’d been popping to escape the guilt of killing a man in a motorcycle accident. In Season 8’s penultimate hour, however, he reminded us how powerful it is when the man of few words speaks from the heart. THE PERFORMANCE | As detective Geordie Keating, a man who has seen it all investigating an inordinate amount of murders in the quaint English countryside, Green has always been able to convey so much with an irritated eyeroll and deadpan delivery. ![]()
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