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Lewis (ITV)
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| Name: | Lewis, Inspector Lewis (US title) |
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| Creator: | Based on a character created by Colin Dexter in the Inspector Morse series. |
| Date(s): | 2006 - 2015 |
| Medium: | Television |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
| External Links: | ITV page IMDb page |
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Lewis, or Inspector Lewis as it is known in North America, is the television series based on the character from Inspector Morse. Lewis is created with 3-4 episodes per series, each of around 1.5 hours in length (the pilot being longer). This makes each episode effectively function as a full feature.
Canon
Set in Oxford like the original show Inspector Morse, Robert ''Robbie'' Lewis, still played by Kevin Whately, is now a Detective Inspector (DI) and is the senior partner to Detective Sergeant (DS) James Hathaway.[1] The show flips the class conflict from the original series by having the working-class Lewis, formerly the underling of the Oxford educated and erudite Morse, supervising the young, brash and not so working-class Hathaway. In Lewis, this dynamic is flipped by the young Hathaway being well-educated, a former student of theology from Cambridge, who stopped his studies after a crisis of faith and confidence.[2] The fact that Hathaway was at Cambridge is at times used to play on the centuries old rivalry between the two top universities at Cambridge and Oxford.
Fandom
Lewis has a small fandom, almost exclusively focused on the slash pairing of Lewis/Hathaway, but also on gen fic with primarily Lewis and Hathaway. As the series has gone on, a few het works have started to surface, some of which are Lewis/Hobson, where Laura Hobson is the series' pathologist with whom Lewis has an affinity that, in canon, moves towards a relationship.
Fans include both ones who started in the Morse fandom, and new fans who haven't watched Morse.
Example Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
- Each to Each by Jenwryn - casefic where they are undercover as gay couple, a common Lewis/Hathaway trope
- His Awkward Sod by Sarren - another case fic in which they are undercover as a gay couple
- The End of All Our Exploring by hedda62 - getting together story from Hathaway's PoV
- Punctuation series by dogpoet - widely recommended series of shorts & one shots, bringing Lewis & Hathaway together, using both PoVs
Communities and Archives
- Inspector Lewis on Dreamwidth
- Lewis Hathaway on Dreamwidth
- Inspector Lewis on Livejournal
- Lewis Challenge on Livejournal
- Lewis on Archive of Our Own
- Fandom overview on Crack_van
Recs
References
- ^ James Hathaway is played by Laurence Fox, who was married to Billie Piper from 2007 to 2016. Billie Piper played Rose Tyler, a companion of the Ninth and Tenth Doctor.
- ^ This is played up in Life born of Fire, the fourth episode in season 2, where Hathaway's reasons for leaving his studies are explored.