Father Brown (TV Series) The Upcott Fraternity (2015) User Reviews

Alex Price centre stage as Sid. Good episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 4 April 2018]

I enjoyed The Upcott Fraternity, it's a very good episode, with excellent characters, a good story, and a good opportunity for Alex Price (Sid) to show off his acting skills.

Whilst it's pretty difficult to believe that behind the scenes at Upcott, a training ground for Priests, that whole gang culture could exist, with future Parish Priests acting together in less then priestly ways. It was more easily to believe in the rivalry that could well have existed, and the competition to progress and get on in life.

A clever, intelligent mystery, with a clever setup, poisons are always an intriguing weapon, especially belladonna, antimony etc, their use and origin fitted into the story well.

Very well acted as always, Alex Price steals the show, he was excellent, Sid was very much in character, perhaps a less involved role for Mark Williams, pushing Sid more central, but a change is always good. Dudley Sutton, as always was a delight as The Rector.

Very good viewing. 8/10

Sid as Sid

[leafyas · 9/10 · 22 April 2021]

Really enjoyed this episode, especially the interactions amongst the regulars.

Father Sid

[safenoe · 8/10 · 14 August 2023]

Sid Carter (Alex Price) finally gets his own Sid-centric episode, and it's very entertaining to see Sid infiltrate a theological college where there is a fraternity. The college is where Father Brown went all those years ago.

Anyway, I'm enjoying watching Father Brown and seeing the early years. I'm kind of bingewatching Father Brown along with Magnum, P. I. and Law and Order, so anyway, and also watching Superstore.

Also, I like the intrigue in this one, and how Sid almost convinces us he could be a theological student and get away with it thanks to Father Brown's tutorship and skill and init.

The Upcott Fraternity

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 28 April 2017]

Young Sid is pretending to be a cleric and we find out why as events go back a week.

Father Brown revisits Upcott, a seminary by an old friend and take confession. This was a place he once studied to be a priest. The hopeful priests in the seminary are far from being a friendly bunch. There is a secret fraternity whose bad behaviour might had been involved in a young priest being drowned and this has been covered up.

When someone falls to his death Father Brown persuades Sid to go to Upcott and pretend he is studying to be a priest, although randy Sid still manages to bag himself a young lady.

Father Emlyn Lewis is the stern priest who started the fraternity and might have been behind the cover ups. However it seems the priest that fell might had been murdered and it could had been revenge for the drowned priest.

The seminary is almost a mirror to these sinister public schools with frat houses and weird initiations. God help their flocks.

Fraternity and Priest don't mix

[ctyankee1 · 28 January 2015]

This takes place at a seminary for Priest. Father Brown is invited to the seminary by a older friend who is a Priest.

In the course of this story a group of seminarians are involved in a fraternity that is more like a secret society for criminals. A priest had drown at an earlier time and many of them knew what happened and kept quiet.

These seminarians want a high position in parishes they would be sent to. They covered up for each other, threatened one another and did things that were not priestly.

Father Brown was at Upcott when a young man studying to be a priest fell from the top of a building. Father Brown talks Lady Felicia's driver Sid into going to Upcott and pretend he is studying to be a priest. Sid dresses up like one goes there and starts getting friendly with fraternity men and snoops around.

Later at a dinner someone is poisoned. The police come back to Upcott with the test results of the man that they say committed suicide the autopsy showed he had a hallucinogenic chemical in his system.

It seems the fraternity brothers were being pursued by the friend of the priest that drowned. Father Emlyn Lewis the leader and head of these priest is pretty mean an seems to cover up scandals In the end the the person that is hurt by the death of the drown priest gets arrested and the people that cover up crime seem to go free. No earthly justice -- life a usual in a godless society and the Priesthood included in this episode.

Not bad

[coltras35 · 5/10 · 5 May 2023]

Whilst Father Brown is visiting the Upcott seminary for trainee priests young student Thomas Potts confesses to him that the recent drowning of his friend Douglas Hitchens was no accident before he plunges to his death from the bell tower. Father Brown suspects foul play but is blocked by the sinister Father Lewis and so, with the connivance of the elderly rector Father Palfreyman, sends Sid in undercover to pose as a trainee. He soon learns of the Secret Fraternity, an elite group of students, and believes that they are covering something up - but which of them is a murderer?

Not bad episode with Sid going undercover at upcott seminary and wearing a priest garb so he can learn about who might have killed a priest. He does most of of work.