So why do his hackles rise when the “new boy” D.I. Forget the “will they or won’t they” it seems resolved that they won’t. Meanwhile, Lewis and no-nonsense pathologist Laura Hobson (Clare Holman) are engaged in a romantic détente. Real estate developer David Connelly, gossipmonger Kit Renton, and dating doyenne Susanna Leland, all are curiously loveless. So why was she looking for a match on a computer dating site? Miranda Thornton, the dead professor, was known as the author of a book about how single women can thrive without men in their lives. Love, as usual, is another driving force in this episode. Thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers: Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot And these lines spoken by Pandarus gave us the title of the episode: It gave us the character of Pandarus, from whose name we derived the word “pander”-to gratify and exploit another person’s weaknesses. It’s also considered a commentary on the decay of ethical behavior in which characters freely lie and deceive to achieve their own ends. Although it’s set during the Trojan War, the play’s message about the futility of war resonates with contemporary audiences. Toby Stephens as David ConnellyOur core text for “Generation of Vipers” is William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, which has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. How will Lewis deal with an entire cast of characters motivated exclusively by self-interest? Once it’s laid out, the menu of potential suspects reads like an ethics violations most-wanted list: a real estate developer, the founder of an Internet gossip site, the head of a computer dating service, a journalist, an arrogant student. The mere idea that someone’s malicious behavior led to the professor’s suicide infuriates Lewis, but it doesn’t take him long to find enough evidence to indicate she might have been murdered. When a personal video is leaked to an Internet gossip site, an Oxford professor of English literature just might be humiliated enough to kill herself.
They’ll unleash the lawyers and threaten to sue you for invasion of privacy.
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They feel free to post your personal details wherever and whenever they choose, but just try to request access to their files in the course of a murder investigation. “Generation of Vipers,” the latest episode of Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece Mystery, deals with purveyors of information on the Internet who are redefining the boundaries of privacy. Such conduct of convenience does not sit well with Inspector Lewis, whose moral compass is always in full working order. They bend and blur and break to suit the purposes of certain individuals at certain times. Lines between what’s right and wrong refuse to stay firmly in place. Ethics are as ephemeral as bits of data floating in the ether.
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