Baptiste

[Ken4155]

Just finished watching the last episode of the final series of Baptiste and i have to say, compared to previous series, what a crock of old pooh! So contrived, sometimes quite badly acted - even from the lead players - and the bad guy's 'master plan' was laughable. Why did i stay with it until the end? Because it was the last ever series and i hoped (in vain) it would improve. Anyone else watched it through to the finish?

[Buenchico]

I've never watched it but, according to the Radio Times, some of the problems evident in the series are to be blamed on Covid-19. (Isn't everything blamed on Covid-19 these days though?). It seems that the scripts had to be re-written four times to enable filming to go ahead.

See 'Solid end to a middling series', here:
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/baptiste-series-2-ending-explained/

[Khandro]

We watched about 10 minutes before switching off. I was feeling sorry for the poor old chap, he should never have been taken out of his care-home, :0)

[emmie]

i watched all the series and loved everyone.

[Ken4155]

Chris, imho they would have been better advised to scrap the thing altogether. Rather that than go out on such a damp squib. Fiona Shaw is a fine actress but all she did throughout the 6 episodes was pull faces. Both she and Tcheky Karyo often appeared to have forgotten their lines - or they were overdoing the pregnant pause. And, as i said earlier, the villain's master-plan was hardly Blofeld-esque - more Baldrick-esque.

[anneasquith]

I felt I had to see it through to the end .

[chelle7272]

I was very disappointed, a lot of it didn't make sense and Fiona Shaw was wasted. A lot is made of Baptiste seeing things other people don't. Baptiste himself said 'I speak people' - yet he didn't realise the bad guy was under his nose from the start!