Yes, indeed! I am fascinated by him and his love-hate affair with detecting, and the occasional moments when he busts out with a rare confidence and changes my opinion of him all over again in the space of half a dozen words. Like when he tells Zoe Suskin not to grow up angry, because it's even harder to find your place in the world when you're angry; or another this season... which I won't quote because I don't know if you've seen it yet. I'm almost a little sad he came back to being a cop this season, after planning to resign when Lewis retired -- I think the show just made their case too well, that the job was hurting him. But he seems like he's edging towards balance now, at least. Hopefully? *pets him worriedly* He's always gonna be bad at emotional distance -- he puts up a good defensive wall, but seems to have zero sense of self-preservation once someone's past the perimeter: see all of his romantic entanglements ever -- but his support network has improved.

It delights me to no end every time some snobby Oxford academic underestimates him because he's a police officer.

Hee, yes! It's almost as delightful as when people underestimate Lewis and he pwns them -- but I think I love best Hathaway's delighted faces when the latter occurs.

Ugh, PBS/Amazon has everything listed wrong. Apparently they smushed together the UK S2 & S3 except for Counterculture Blues, which they bumped into the beginning of the US S3. After that, the seasons are chopped up the same, but +1 numerically. ARGH. Compare: US, UK. Thankfully, Amazon streaming appears to have restored the bits that PBS cut for original broadcast. At least, I hope. I didn't find out about that until watching the latest season - which I confirmed was uncut, via Tumblr - so I'm not sure. *growls*

THE BEST PART IS THAT HIS NOVELIST CHARACTER WAS ALSO NAMED CRANE. Ahahaha, seriously, what are the odds?