Endeavour’s Season 8 premiere spotlights race & national identity
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 1, 2022
Throughout the years, everyone’s favorite failed academic turned detective Endeavour Morse has had several cases that touch on race. “Striker,” the Endeavour Season 8 premiere episode brings to the attention of US viewers what life was like at the intersection of race and political/national identity in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. The case has many twists and turns, resulting in racism surprisingly not being the main motivation for the crime, but Endeavour has consistently used the mysteries of the week to highlight Black history that other dramas ignore.
Jack Swift is first introduced as a . . .
