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‘Professor T’s Season 5 Pursues Romance in “Natural Causes”
Murder doesn’t take a holiday, at least not when Professor T is around.
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Murder doesn’t take a holiday, at least not when Professor T is around.
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'Professor T' returns for Season 5; here's everything you need to remember.
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After the emotional gut punch of losing Lisa in Season 3’s finale, Professor T’s Season 4 conclusion, “The Warrior Gene,” does us all a solid in this turbulent year: it delivers a sweet, gentle story that feels like a hug from the show. Winters gets the emotional catharsis
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The title of this week’s Professor T episode, “You Can’t Kill Me,” along with Aunt Zelda opening things with a tarot card reading, suggests a more playful story. The unraveling of this week’s murder is far sadder than what the expectations set. Yet it also manages to
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This week on Professor T, Jasper lectures about crime statistics, informing his students 89% of killers use a single method, and most are men with histories of violence. Multiple methods of murder suggest premeditation. He warns his students that real-life crime will always have exceptions; of course, that will
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The second episode of Professor T’s fourth season, “September Gardens,” opens with Adelaide (Frances de la Tour), making the briefest of appearances as Jasper’s mother via FaceTime, to pressure him into complying with a request that will propel him into this week’s case. He is begrudgingly convinced
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Sometimes, after a tragedy, people regress into old habits and comfortable personas. After years of a personality shaped by PTSD, Professor T’s Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller) reverts to the solace of his OCD routines in Season 4’s premiere, “Overboard,” following the death of the series' other main
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It’s the end of Professor T’s lively third season, and we finally get our payoff: the truth about Jasper’s father’s death. Throw in a murder mystery where the victim of a car crash died of suffocation, add the surprising death of a main character, and it’
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The fifth episode of Professor T starts out wanting you to believe Jasper is once again accused of murder, but that’s false. He just won his freedom and cleared his name – legally, if not professionally – and is attempting to reclaim his place at Cambridge. Luckily, that is not what
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We teach best what we most need to learn; this week, Jasper is the perfect example of this idiom, gaining wisdom and (eventually) embracing humility in Professor T's fourth episode. He haunts his old lecture hall – both when empty and when occupied by his replacement, Erik Haiden (Cornelius
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It is unclear how much time has passed since the second episode, but this week finds the Professor at his trial for the attempted murder of Simon Lanesborough. Simon’s crookedness is not questioned, but what happened to him is not mentioned. Was he jailed? We don’t see him
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The second episode of Professor T’s third season features a clever opener that intercuts between Jasper approaching the therapy room, where he finds his mother Adelaide waiting instead of Dr. Goldberg, and the murder of the week, with an employee seeing a young bride floating dead in a hotel