# Detectorists--a little treasure **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 16, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545 "2017-04-16T05:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/21 "2018-01-16T05:47:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I just did and it’s there. Perhaps you misspelled it? Thank you. I checked the spelling. It was correct. Sometimes Netflix gives non USA customers other choices. For example we did get Star Trek Discovery. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/22 "2018-01-16T15:52:08Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Thank you. I checked the spelling. It was correct. > > Sometimes Netflix gives non USA customers other choices. > > For example we did get Star Trek Discovery. Didn’t know that. Are you able to get Acorn TV? ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/23 "2018-01-16T17:23:52Z")
> [@brossa](#): > > The scene in the finale with Terry looking across at his wife after he found a button just slayed me. Such joy and maybe sadness at the same time. The quiver of Gerard Horan’s lip is so perfect. And then his look around the field? Beautiful. I mentioned this elsewhere but here goes … For me, the true art of that scene is it suddenly opens the audience up to understand the gold, the ‘treasure’, for these people is all around them, it’s them, the group of friends, partners, family. Hits you right between the eyes. I think that’s why we pull away in the final scene; they already have their treasure, what then happens is almost incidental. Pub? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/24 "2018-01-16T17:53:30Z")
> [@GinoC](#): > > Brilliant news! I absolutely fell in love with this show. It’s witty, understated, and heartwarming. My father watches and showed me a clip last night of the one guy moving a hedgehog (“spherical”) out of the road to a safe spot in the field. So sweet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/25 "2018-01-16T19:52:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Didn’t know that. Are you able to get Acorn TV? I don’t know what Acorn TV is. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/26 "2018-01-16T20:14:55Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > I don’t know what Acorn TV is. [Acorn TV](https://acorn.tv/) ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/27 "2018-01-16T23:58:50Z")
Thank you. Acorn TV is available and offering one week free! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/28 "2018-01-17T00:20:52Z")
It should come with an addiction warning. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/29 "2018-01-17T00:52:09Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Thank you. Acorn TV is available and offering one week free! Yeah, and it’s only $5/month! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/30 "2018-01-17T04:27:06Z")
The “Simon” guy from the Dirt Sharks looks more like a “Buck Dharma” to me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/31 "2018-01-19T17:23:49Z")
We’ve got two episodes left in S3. This season is every bit as charming as the previous two, if more predictable. I think I’ve figured out the end: When they do the usual raising of the detector wands prior to starting off, one of them sounds off while it’s still pointed up into the tree. I’ll be sad to see this lovely show end. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/32 "2018-01-20T03:27:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We’ve got two episodes left in S3. This season is every bit as charming as the previous two, if more predictable. I think I’ve figured out the end: > > [spoiler] > > I’ll be sad to see this lovely show end. A-a-a-n-d I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’ll sure miss this show. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/33 "2018-01-20T15:06:29Z")
LOL. Mackensie Crook slightly led you down that path, imo. I thought the actual ending was perfect - although I do know folks who wouldn’t have understood it without some prompting. Hint: the true treasure wasn’t in the tree. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/34 "2018-01-20T21:16:17Z")
I like how the third season is bookended by the two aerial shots–in the first episode zooming in on Andy and Lance from the survey photo and in the finale zooming out from above their favorite old oak that held the magpie’s nest. What a wonderful series. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/35 "2018-02-07T20:03:39Z")
We had just finished Breaking Bad (about halfway through The Missus and I agreed we hated the show but were committed by that point to finish it) and needed something to counter BB’s intensity. Netflix only gave us 2 seasons of Detectorists, but what a salve! Great, great show. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/36 "2018-02-08T20:41:29Z")
I just finished Season 2. Netflix doesn’t have Season 3 yet. I’m surprised that someone here couldn’t find it on Netflix. The episode where Lance and Andy were at Terry’s house and they have Sheila’s lemonade - their facial expressions made me laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/37 "2018-02-09T04:27:29Z")
This show was mentioned (not by name) in the last week or two on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. The story was about someone using a metal detector who thought they found 50 ancient gold coins. Turns out they were just props “for a British TV show about a couple of metal detector enthusiasts.” Thanks to this thread, I knew what show they were talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/38 "2018-02-09T12:10:16Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This show was mentioned (not by name) in the last week or two on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. The story was about someone using a metal detector who thought they found 50 ancient gold coins. Turns out they were just props “for a British TV show about a couple of metal detector enthusiasts.” Thanks to this thread, I knew what show they were talking about. That doesn’t add up. In episode 2x06, one character finds an aestel identical to [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jewel). It ends up in a museum. In 2x07, the character then stops finding anything with his detector, decides that he has been “cursed” for taking it from the ground, and eventually uses his savings to buy some gold coins which he puts in a small pouch and shallowly buries. Except that he buried [only 10 coins](https://imgur.com/a/hGGmf). And why would they abandon the prop coins after the scene was filmed? ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/39 "2018-02-09T12:18:08Z")
It’s not those coins. It’s coins from series 3. There’s a scene with a plough going through a pot of coins and spreading them around. The crew collected most of them, but quite a few got scattered and buried. Why they didn’t check with a metal detector I don’t know! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545/40 "2018-02-09T12:20:12Z")
From the BBC news story: “The props had been used in a sequence showing a plough exposing gold coins” and the producers missed some when they were cleaning up. > **['Roman haul' turns out to be TV show Detectorists prop](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-42887063)** > > The 50 "gold" coins and pottery had earlier been buried by the crew of the BBC show Detectorists. EDIT: ninja’d [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detectorists-a-little-treasure/784545.md?page=3)