Sadly Over-hyped

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Quintessentially English, gentle comedy with fine acting and good humour. Each character is perfectly portrayed from the main two 'lads' to Lance's money grabbing ex wife. Even the music score is spot on, fitting the rustic scenery perfectly. Makes me feel homesick for blighty.

Detectorists really is one of the greats, it deserves to be up there in the canon of British comedy. It's uniquely understated, quintessentially British without being at all jingoistic, and most importantly: it is laugh out loud hilarious. I can't recommend highly enough, I love it.

Watched it as part of Acorn kickoff in US. Loved it down to the undisturbed dirt. Oddballs with intellect, Eccentrics that aren't lunes, Uneven personalities that are just doing the best they can. Great fun and sorry we won't see more.

It's rare that I would award a 9 to a TV show but this show is an exception.Mackenzie Crook has created a little world that I would love to live in if I could. I can see myself as someone like Becky with a professional job through the week and detecting as my hobby during my free time. My circle of acquaintances are a little off-beat, like the lesbian couple, the cop who never retired, his wife and strange Russell.It looked like Becky was getting involved with Andy's detecting near the end of the second series. I wondered what kind of a relationship Becky and Andy had since they never appeared to spend much time together outside of late nite TV.The pace of the series seems just about right, they do enough each episode to make you think and whet your appetite for the next show.The BBC has confirmed a third series will air sometime in late 2017. I'm really happy about that because the second series didn't wind everything up and left so many loose ends only another series could resolve things.I hope though that the third series isn't really the last, this show could run for many more years what with the possibilities that surround metal detecting and artifact rich England with thousands upon thousands of sites to search.There's still so much development potential for all the characters, Andy, Becky, their kid, Lance, Maggie, the lesbians, all of them.