Comments on: TV Series Review: Father Brown http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/tv-series-review-father-brown/ The great ones are back in action. Wed, 22 May 2013 02:27:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Audio Drama Review: Father Brown, Volume 3 « The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/tv-series-review-father-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-9550 Audio Drama Review: Father Brown, Volume 3 « The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:02:06 +0000 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/?p=5589#comment-9550 [...] finish it. (i.e. The quick one.) The mystery was well and faithfully adapted. A couple weeks ago, I criticized the British TV version for trying to mitigate Father Brown's views of the deceased as a heroic [...]

]]> By: timbabwe http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/tv-series-review-father-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-9203 timbabwe Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:49:05 +0000 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/?p=5589#comment-9203 Chesterton was an interesting character in his day. The closest analogue today
is Garrison Keillor: hyper-productive, a concern with religion bordering on the obsessive, a bit of an intellectual lightweight, but grounded in unshakeable common sense, with an undeniable mastery of storytelling. He’s got dozens of quotes in Bartlett’s. He had a knack for presenting seemingly paradoxical ideas in a neat, pithy aphorism.

Minnesota is home to the Chesterton Society, who have produced a TV series
(The Apostle of Common Sense), academic conferences, monthly meetings and recently founded a High School, The Chesterton Academy. I went to a few meetings, but they were a bit intense for me.

Chesterton, for all his productivity, never left behind that single great work to cement his reputation in the literary canon. The CS folks say start with Father Brown, but continue to “Orthodoxy”, his greatest work. Couldn’t finish it myself.

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