Loved this series, it's so brilliantly written and acted...As a Detectorist myself, I can tell you this clip isn't about Lance finding gold, it's about all the thousands of times he did not find gold!
thats what i think people that would just say this show is boring dont understand. these guys are not out trying to fins treasure because they want to be rich, these guys are trying to find their heritage their legacy. his joy here isnt because he found some gold it is because he found something lost and important, he feels like he is part of that history now. he found where he came from in a sense, it is something that so many people search for. their roots. or at least thats how i took it, as an American that has been separated from my ancestry.
also Credit to the sound design and the camera work in that scene. The haunting music kicks in at the perfect time and the camera pulls back. Gives me goosebumps.
Where I live I'm surrounded by Roman silver Denari. I found two as a child in the 70s. My friend found 11.Many more have been found over the years but all are scattered. Hardly any bronze. There must be a motherload here but probable under woodland now. What a lovely series this is. I hope somebody one day might find the treasure me and my friend came so close to. But the real treasure is finding anything from the past. As a teenage boy especially.
This show really hits me in the soul. I watched all of it during a vulnerable time in my life, just getting out of a breakup and I was training myself to enjoy life again. It might be silly but this show really made me look at the little good things in life and cherish them.
my dad loved this show. he watched it during some of his final days. it's too quiet and peaceful for my friends, but I love it all the same, and I think my dad loved it because it gave us something our american shows just... couldn't. love from the US
Sorry to hear about your Dad, mate. It's a great show, so English, and just a great advert for TV that does not have to include criminality and the dark aspects of the world we live in. 👍
McKenzie captured this phenomena perfectly ! As many Detectorists , including myself , have experienced . You just get a feeling . You want to ignore it but that little voice in the back of your head niggles you . I've no doubt many Detectorists have ignored it ...... and possibly missed out big time ! In my case I was heading for a big oak on the edge of a field . Stopped for some reason and just had a look around . But when I started off , something told me to now head for another tree about 45degrees to my right . And I did . 6 paces in , a signal . 1822 George llll gold sovereign !!!!!! Like it was minted yesterday. Had I carried on my original course I'd have missed it by inches .
I love so many details about this scene. The acting by Toby Jones (Lance) where he expresses wonder, incredulity, tears of joy, and ecstasy, all in a few seconds. When the music starts. How Sophie backs away, all smiles, because this was Lance's finding, Andy and her was discouraging him. Then Lance dancing. Sophie jumping up and down. (She doesn't know you're supposed to dance when you find gold..it was Andy and Lance's agreement) . Then Andy puts down his detector, hugs Lance and starts to dance, Sophie joins in, they all do that goofy dance... All the while the camera moves away, showing you that, while this is the greatest moment for these three, this is perhaps just ONE of the several nuggets of history that may be buried in a great land. Waiting to be found, by other Detectorists. I knew Mackenzie Crook (Andy) as that weird but funny Gareth guy from UK version of The Office. He has written and directed a masterpiece here.
My TV diet is full of dark murder mysteries or police procedurals. I wish there were more gems like this show. It is light, but substantial. It is about supposedly mundane existences, but there is more truth about humanity in this show than 99.9% of other shows. It is brilliantly funny and gentle. It is a wonderful show.
This is the only TV series for which I would let the intro run and not skip. The music, the little nature macros of insects and flowers, a perfect preamble to a heartfelt, reflective view of beautiful, slumbering England. Ok, the first time I “dectoristed” gold I didn’t do the dance, but it was only a ring, not a fantastic artefact from bygone days. Next time I promise to go crazy. Loved this series so much.
Absolutely! This scene could have been so overplayed. But Sophie walking backwards to give a little space and Andy's big eyes and head-shake and puff of air are the perfect subtle counterpart to Lance's final triumph. Yes, we Americans can use the Brit's word too: brilliant!
Toby Jones is just a phenomenal global actor, but the pairing in the show with Mackenzie Crook is just brilliant -- and there's not a single weak link in the entire cast.
What amazes me, is how careless people were in olden days, with such valuable things, especially with hordes of treasure. Put all together, over the centuries, it must amount to a quite a pile.
This is TV at its best, brilliant script, directing and acting. Some people think its just about anorak metal detectorists and detecting... but you have to dig a little deeper to extract the poignant social interaction here. The BBC may not know it... but they have a real gem in Mackensie Crook.. and the casting of Toby Jones as Lance was a master stroke. I just hope he is available for a third series if they ever do one.
From that scene when he calls at the window and Lance throws up the horns while making a curry, I realised this is a special show about the simple silly things that make normal/weird people wonderful.
I did really enjoy this show but I can't help but think a different actor should've played Andy. Mackenzie Crook did a great job of directing and writing but I was never convinced with him in the role. He was fantastic in The Office, at playing a character like Gareth, but he's not a great actor honestly. He always seems like he's acting to me, making it difficult to suspend my disbelief. Even that puff of the cheeks in this scene felt forced/fake.
@@futurez12 IMO you are so wrong... although I appreciate this is your personal opinion, I think Mackensie played a blinder, some of the best acting I have ever seen.
@@Jammoko Well, it's subjective so I'm not gong to say you're 'wrong' but I'm _very_ surprised to hear that his acting was some of the best you've seen.
Strikes me to the core, this show has so so much depth it's unreal. For all the 'average' 'normal' British blokes out there....somebody actually understands.
My wife and I are Yanks, but we saw this series on PBS and absolutely loved it. If an opportunity arises for you to see the series you should do so and I promise, you will not be disappointed. British TV is much better than American TV, Hands down.
Loved this. Detectorists has somehow managed to unearth that magical mythical England that I thought was buried and lost forever. It’s on a par with Powell&Pressburgers A Canterbury Tale
I want to wake up early, dress in the dark, quietly close my front door and walk out in a gentle Danebury spring morning. Past the White Horse, down the old lane and out into the hay-scented fields to find Lance and Andy already there.... Damn....
Wonderful scene from a wonderful series. My wife and I have watched all three series three times each, looking up the jokes that we (as Americans) don't get. Gets better every time we watch it.
Yup, pleased to hear of series 3 ^ I run a small metal detecting club in Hampshire... Toby Jones under the directing and script of Mackenzie Crook nailed it. You dig up half a ton of scrap... then every so often, well, that scene sez it all. :)
When I first watched this I had a smile on my face and tears in my eyes, oh bugger if truth be known I still do when I watch it but I think only Detectorists fans will understand that. A beautiful programme that I haven’t felt the love and warmth from for a good while from a TV programme.
This scene gets me every time. It's such a well acted series with that rare quality that you actually feel for the characters and care what happens to them.
I don't remember enjoying and looking forward to a show like this for a long time. The faces. The understated conversations, the sheer joy and beauty. What an achievement!
I only binge-watched this show 2 weeks ago and I know it will be one I will go back to in the years to come because it feels like an old friend I will miss.
One of those series you hope no one else watched because you wanted to keep it to yourself. This is the best of the best. To understand this scene you had to understand all that built up to it. Genius writing and superlative acting.
MacKenzie Crook is an absolute genius. This show is my favorite of all time. I own all 3 seasons and have watched them each numerous times. I pick a nugget out with each new viewing. My only criticism is the production stopped at 3 seasons. Thank you Mr. Crook for an amazing show!!
Bought the DVD here in Australia after seeing every episode in the series and have watched them over and over so we almost know them word for word but we still crack up at the jokes. So wonderfully written and acted. *Every* character is unique and unforgettable. Mackenzie Crook is a brilliant writer and director and Toby Crook is priceless. Would love to see another series.
History belongs to us, that's what I realised watching this show. It's in the ground, it's all around us, and it's in our blood. All those people who lived before us are living through us, now.
As a Detectorist myself, this show, this scene, really hits an emotional note! I wonder if people can hear my screams through my snorkel when I dive for lost relics and find one with my detector. All time great show!!
Such a perfect scene. The horses from the past, the anticipation, Sophie steps back in disbelief and then the music begins and Lance cheers. I cheer for Lance every time I watch it. Love it!
What an incredible scene. Even the way the wheat wafts in the breeze as the camera pans out is perfect. I've seen it many times but Lance's reaction to seeing his find is making me cry again right now.
This show could have ended here and it would have been perfect. Still could be after season 3. I just always admired the Brits for not beating something beautiful into the ground. What a fantastic story. Pub?
This is an abosultely brilliant series - Beautifully written and filmed. As a detectorist I can tell you the series really did a great job researching and capturing the antics of the worldwide metal detecting community. The cast did an extraordinary job turning into many of the same characters I know in the detecting community and in our monthly finds meetings.
Dear producer, director and actor, please shoot a sequel to this fantastically beautiful and funny series "Detectorists"! It is the best series on television that I have ever seen, even if it was only shown on Arte with translated subtitles for German television and can be seen in the media library there until October. Perhaps it would also be dubbed linguistically by a German, I think it would be able to achieve a good success with us in Germany. Although I love the original English language version very much, because the voices and the actors are just wonderful. In all honesty, "Detectorists" is really great, please please shoot more of it, the audience will thank you! Especially now in the gloomy Corana times ,detectorits is simply a bright light in the television sky, and probably brings many people to start with this wonderful hobby. I've been looking for my detector myself since 2012, it helps me to understand nature better every day and has helped me a lot in coping with the grief of my wife who passed away too early. Please let this series live again, people will thank you.
I go back to this perfect series every time I need to feel like I’m losing myself in this life , it never dulls or loses it’s poignant power it’s perfect it’s subtle and funny and true it’s friendships not made on how people look or what they have. . It’s about people who don’t care what anyone thinks of them or what they love to do , they just love being there , I cry at the theme song I cry at Lance being used by his ex but still trying to help , I cry at Mackenzie his lovely gf who just loves him for him , I love this too much a middle ahead man who sits on his own watches and cries at the perfection of every single episode , thanks to Mackenzie crook who may sort of realize what he made nut no way would know just how deeply this affects people , normal flawed people who Need to see good people win , I get angry when I tell people to watch it and they don’t , If you miss this you really really don’t know what your missing , Love reading people’s comments here too , I feel belonging with you all thanks to two men and their metal detectors
The Detectorist just kind of snuck in there for me like reconnecting with an old friend. It felt familiar in a way that was a distant memory from another time and place that could reach the here and now. As for the moment, time stopped. I feel gratefull.
So lovely you can scarcely put it into words. The genius of Lance hearing the horses… Just to get a little bit poetic about life…always, ALWAYS listen to your instincts. They’re within you for a damn good reason. You get a bad feeling about something or someone, don’t do whatever it is. Don’t get in that car, don’t go in that room, don’t make that call. Stop, back off, run away, rethink. You get a good feeling, go for it…and don’t let anyone, even your best mates, mock you into not trying. Mackenzie Crook, you damn genius. So so good, from the music to the cast to the locations to the scripts. Pure gold.
Im a little ashamed at how long it took me to watch this show, but oh my god was it worth the wait. One of the greatest shows ive ever seen, moments like these actually bring put tears
And that's how you do it folks. A "Wait a minute.", let's see what this is. Great show. And fabulous representation of what we do out there! Keep em' coming!
The best British comedy I have ever seen: observational, kind and gripping like no other. Let there be a fourth series. We can't do with not knowing how the characters are today. All of them are strong enough to be at the centre of new stories...
Love this show. Funny, warm and subtly clever. A cracking cast of well drawn characters with a beautiful supporting cameo by the English countryside. The theme song (by Johnny Flynn) is lovely too. Season one on Netflix at the moment.
I loved this series. Like "Last of the summer wine" for my generation. My only regret is that Sophie wasn't in the last series. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much.
Don’t know what it is exactly, but this show hits the perfect spot! So simple, with characters that are just charming, beautiful English countryside and the fact that Mackenzie Crook is an absolute genius… makes it just brilliant! 👌❤️👏👏👏
from the west US. This series had me from one of the first lines ! Pull tab , Sell them on e-Bay. people pay money for this shit. I've watched all of season one and can't wait for season 2. Award winning writing. great cast. good music. now off to find some more pull tabs!
That wonderful feeling of paying your dues for years and finally finding something valuable! Hard to explain how satisfying that is unless you've spent thousands of hours metal detecting and finding very little of value...
I watch Dad's Army over and over again because it makes me feel happy inside,,,I now have something new to watch,,God Bless Detectorists,,ps my favourite character must be the farmer and his Dogs🤣🤣❤️
dm51964 and what a series it was! I don't hold too much hope for a 4th series but Crook is an inspired actor and director. I really hope these two work onscreen again.
Simply one of the greatest shows ever. One of those programmes you bore people talking about yet no one watches. Pure bliss.
Pardon my French, but it was fucking marvellous.
I show people this show and they pass on it...
I can only lead you to the promised land, I cannot make you stay.
An absolute masterpiece, enjoyed every moment and never wanted it to end.
Turtlehands I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it
I love this episode, it always makes me tear up when Lance finds Gold.
Loved this series, it's so brilliantly written and acted...As a Detectorist myself, I can tell you this clip isn't about Lance finding gold, it's about all the thousands of times he did not find gold!
If in doubt... dig it! Been there, done that... and oh yeah, I found my gold and did the gold dance! :)
thats what i think people that would just say this show is boring dont understand. these guys are not out trying to fins treasure because they want to be rich, these guys are trying to find their heritage their legacy. his joy here isnt because he found some gold it is because he found something lost and important, he feels like he is part of that history now. he found where he came from in a sense, it is something that so many people search for. their roots. or at least thats how i took it, as an American that has been separated from my ancestry.
also Credit to the sound design and the camera work in that scene. The haunting music kicks in at the perfect time and the camera pulls back. Gives me goosebumps.
Where I live I'm surrounded by Roman silver Denari. I found two as a child in the 70s. My friend found 11.Many more have been found over the years but all are scattered. Hardly any bronze. There must be a motherload here but probable under woodland now. What a lovely series this is. I hope somebody one day might find the treasure me and my friend came so close to. But the real treasure is finding anything from the past. As a teenage boy especially.
I’ll find my gold someday , I damn well will
Anyone else burst into tears when this happened or is it just me? x)
I laughed and cried simultaneously, a powerful programme, loved it.
I cried tears of joy haha raw emotions
I'm a bloke and I well up every time. One of the very best scenes ever put to film.
I cried a little, my wife was openly sobbing for literally five solid minutes.
absolutely
I still bloody cry at this scene. Every bloody time.
As British TV writing goes, this is one of the most beautiful, tender and loving shows ever made. It's simply wonderful.
This show really hits me in the soul. I watched all of it during a vulnerable time in my life, just getting out of a breakup and I was training myself to enjoy life again. It might be silly but this show really made me look at the little good things in life and cherish them.
That’s wonderful!! I’m so happy for you
That's it--it's at the soul level.
Same story. It's something else.
Dude!!! Same thing!! I got divorced and this goofy show atill gives tremendous hope.
That's what separates good TV from what is truly art, the things it makes people feel within their own horizons
The world has yet to understand how good this show is. Its pure gold!!!
A hidden gem for sure.
100% agreed
@@GeneralChangFromDanang meaning we are the detectorists
my dad loved this show. he watched it during some of his final days. it's too quiet and peaceful for my friends, but I love it all the same, and I think my dad loved it because it gave us something our american shows just... couldn't. love from the US
It was a lovely program, so simple and fun, it was filmed in lovely Suffolk where I live a beautiful part of the country 🇬🇧
Just FYI, they just finished filming a new Detectorists production, not sure what it's going to be, but they got everyone back together AFAIK.
@@sgtpepper1138 Yes I herd about this all so, can’t wait
Sorry to hear about your Dad, mate. It's a great show, so English, and just a great advert for TV that does not have to include criminality and the dark aspects of the world we live in. 👍
@@sgtpepper1138 everyone except Diana Rigg (unless they filmed some stuff with her before she died)
McKenzie captured this phenomena perfectly ! As many Detectorists , including myself , have experienced . You just get a feeling . You want to ignore it but that little voice in the back of your head niggles you . I've no doubt many Detectorists have ignored it ...... and possibly missed out big time ! In my case I was heading for a big oak on the edge of a field . Stopped for some reason and just had a look around . But when I started off , something told me to now head for another tree about 45degrees to my right . And I did . 6 paces in , a signal . 1822 George llll gold sovereign !!!!!! Like it was minted yesterday.
Had I carried on my original course I'd have missed it by inches .
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I disliked those guys.
One of the great shows in my view. No murders, no gun fights, no street crime....brilliant.
No matter how much I watch this - I always tear up at this scene. This is true gold.
I love so many details about this scene. The acting by Toby Jones (Lance) where he expresses wonder, incredulity, tears of joy, and ecstasy, all in a few seconds. When the music starts. How Sophie backs away, all smiles, because this was Lance's finding, Andy and her was discouraging him. Then Lance dancing. Sophie jumping up and down. (She doesn't know you're supposed to dance when you find gold..it was Andy and Lance's agreement) . Then Andy puts down his detector, hugs Lance and starts to dance, Sophie joins in, they all do that goofy dance...
All the while the camera moves away, showing you that, while this is the greatest moment for these three, this is perhaps just ONE of the several nuggets of history that may be buried in a great land. Waiting to be found, by other Detectorists.
I knew Mackenzie Crook (Andy) as that weird but funny Gareth guy from UK version of The Office. He has written and directed a masterpiece here.
That's just how it is, it's what makes us human... and why this show won a BAFTA; right on the nail! :)
My TV diet is full of dark murder mysteries or police procedurals. I wish there were more gems like this show. It is light, but substantial. It is about supposedly mundane existences, but there is more truth about humanity in this show than 99.9% of other shows. It is brilliantly funny and gentle. It is a wonderful show.
I agree. Well stated pollofrito3000.
This is the only TV series for which I would let the intro run and not skip. The music, the little nature macros of insects and flowers, a perfect preamble to a heartfelt, reflective view of beautiful, slumbering England.
Ok, the first time I “dectoristed” gold I didn’t do the dance, but it was only a ring, not a fantastic artefact from bygone days. Next time I promise to go crazy. Loved this series so much.
Scene sends shivers down my spine.
What an outstanding series.
indeed
I never would have thought that a show about two middle aged metal dectertorists would have sent me taken me through so many emotional moments.
all the acting, the way she walks backwards, all makes my cry every single viewing. fantastic scene.
Absolutely! This scene could have been so overplayed. But Sophie walking backwards to give a little space and Andy's big eyes and head-shake and puff of air are the perfect subtle counterpart to Lance's final triumph. Yes, we Americans can use the Brit's word too: brilliant!
Toby Jones acting masterclass.
No shame in welling up at that. Tears of joy for a lovable character.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Toby Jones is just a phenomenal global actor, but the pairing in the show with Mackenzie Crook is just brilliant -- and there's not a single weak link in the entire cast.
This gave me goosebumps all over as it reminds me of march 2022 when I dug up my first Gold coin. A Gold Celtic stater. Will never forget this moment
What amazes me, is how careless people were in olden days, with such valuable things, especially with hordes of treasure. Put all together, over the centuries, it must amount to a quite a pile.
one of the most beautiful scenes i've ever seen
**HONESTY TIME** HOW MANY OF YOU CRIED AT THIS SCENE 😥
i did
Yep
Just a bit misty eyed.
every single time I've watched it, at least a dozen times.
i just find i've got something in my eye every time i watch...honestly,....i'm not crying
The gold dance just completes this scene so perfectly. Toby Jones nails the reaction, such great acting.
This is TV at its best, brilliant script, directing and acting. Some people think its just about anorak metal detectorists and detecting... but you have to dig a little deeper to extract the poignant social interaction here. The BBC may not know it... but they have a real gem in Mackensie Crook.. and the casting of Toby Jones as Lance was a master stroke. I just hope he is available for a third series if they ever do one.
Jammoko season 3 has been confirmed by the BBC and mackenzie crook, filming this summer with the same cast :)
From that scene when he calls at the window and Lance throws up the horns while making a curry, I realised this is a special show about the simple silly things that make normal/weird people wonderful.
I did really enjoy this show but I can't help but think a different actor should've played Andy. Mackenzie Crook did a great job of directing and writing but I was never convinced with him in the role. He was fantastic in The Office, at playing a character like Gareth, but he's not a great actor honestly. He always seems like he's acting to me, making it difficult to suspend my disbelief. Even that puff of the cheeks in this scene felt forced/fake.
@@futurez12 IMO you are so wrong... although I appreciate this is your personal opinion, I think Mackensie played a blinder, some of the best acting I have ever seen.
@@Jammoko Well, it's subjective so I'm not gong to say you're 'wrong' but I'm _very_ surprised to hear that his acting was some of the best you've seen.
Strikes me to the core, this show has so so much depth it's unreal. For all the 'average' 'normal' British blokes out there....somebody actually understands.
This scene made me shed a tear
My wife and I are Yanks, but we saw this series on PBS and absolutely loved it. If an opportunity arises for you to see the series you should do so and I promise, you will not be disappointed. British TV is much better than American TV, Hands down.
Loved this. Detectorists has somehow managed to unearth that magical mythical England that I thought was buried and lost forever. It’s on a par with Powell&Pressburgers A Canterbury Tale
well . i must say. that is a most wonderful film.. and must agree with you
This show is so amazing, I cried as well, goose bumps
you need to watch perfect strangers by Stephen Poliakoff. youll love it.
Along with the opening song! So hauntingly beautiful... sigh😌
its got that English aspect to it.
I want to wake up early, dress in the dark, quietly close my front door and walk out in a gentle Danebury spring morning. Past the White Horse, down the old lane and out into the hay-scented fields to find Lance and Andy already there.... Damn....
Lance's face.Great acting by Toby Jones.A brilliant gem of a TV series.
AlrightBert Yeah, he managed to convey joy, disbelief, relief and (dare I say it) slight fear in just a couple of seconds.
I couldn't agree more
Black country la la la
The acting is top notch. Unbelievable by all three of them.
This is my favorite scene, of any show. It continues to be the broth that feeds my soul when it needs recovery most.
'Did you hear that?"
'No.'
'...Horses.'
I've seen very few actors deliver a line as well as that.
This is one of the strongest moments in televsion.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Raz Edits it's hay fever!
Raz Edits true.
Hay fever, right. Sniff.... Perfect.
Oh what the Arado?
onions
I’ve watched this scene a hundred times and Lance finding gold still hits me in the feels.
Best couple of minutes of TV I've seen in years. Well done Mackenzie Crook, you're a natural.
Wonderful scene from a wonderful series. My wife and I have watched all three series three times each, looking up the jokes that we (as Americans) don't get. Gets better every time we watch it.
This is the true England and we are proud to welcome lovely people like you ❤️
"Could be Tizer... could be Lilt," for instance? Brilliant. So understated.
I feckin' cried at this. And I never cry at anything. Cheers for uploading!
dreamtranslator1 with you on this. haven't cried at anything on TV for years but his face bless him.
Same.
It's the look on Lance's FACE that does me in! When his face crinkles up like he's starting to cry...I'm done.
dreamtranslator1 anyone who doesn't well up at this scene has a heart of cold, hard stone
Yup, pleased to hear of series 3 ^ I run a small metal detecting club in Hampshire... Toby Jones under the directing and script of Mackenzie Crook nailed it. You dig up half a ton of scrap... then every so often, well, that scene sez it all. :)
When I first watched this I had a smile on my face and tears in my eyes, oh bugger if truth be known I still do when I watch it but I think only Detectorists fans will understand that. A beautiful programme that I haven’t felt the love and warmth from for a good while from a TV programme.
Detectorists is quite simply the best T.V. series just about ever, and that is in all aspects from writing to acting to sets to pure magic!
This scene gets me every time. It's such a well acted series with that rare quality that you actually feel for the characters and care what happens to them.
I don't remember enjoying and looking forward to a show like this for a long time. The faces. The understated conversations, the sheer joy and beauty. What an achievement!
I only binge-watched this show 2 weeks ago and I know it will be one I will go back to in the years to come because it feels like an old friend I will miss.
Beautiful poem to an England fast being lost. Great English folk music as well.
One of those series you hope no one else watched because you wanted to keep it to yourself. This is the best of the best. To understand this scene you had to understand all that built up to it. Genius writing and superlative acting.
MacKenzie Crook is an absolute genius. This show is my favorite of all time. I own all 3 seasons and have watched them each numerous times. I pick a nugget out with each new viewing. My only criticism is the production stopped at 3 seasons. Thank you Mr. Crook for an amazing show!!
Only running for 3 seasons helped to make it great. Think The Office, Fawlty Towers etc. Leave the audience hungry.
When in doubt......dig it out.......just brilliant......best British comedy in years and deserves a wider audience.
If you don't weep tears of joy when Lance realises what he's found, you have no soul, and I'd probably hate you.
metalbearuk Best comment ever
hahahaha
not even clear on what he 'found'??? and old compass or something??
No. It was a gold and enamel Saxon brooch.
what is it?
This makes me have good thoughts about England.
Mardyfella Yup. And not so easy these days.
Single best moment in recent British televisual history
Bought the DVD here in Australia after seeing every episode in the series and have watched them over and over so we almost know them word for word but we still crack up at the jokes. So wonderfully written and acted. *Every* character is unique and unforgettable. Mackenzie Crook is a brilliant writer and director and Toby Crook is priceless. Would love to see another series.
History belongs to us, that's what I realised watching this show. It's in the ground, it's all around us, and it's in our blood. All those people who lived before us are living through us, now.
One of the best shows on tv…. Ever.
As a Detectorist myself, this show, this scene, really hits an emotional note! I wonder if people can hear my screams through my snorkel when I dive for lost relics and find one with my detector. All time great show!!
I cry everytime
As soon as he clears the mud away and the music starts playing, that's it, I',m gone. Every time. Brilliant TV.
Such a perfect scene. The horses from the past, the anticipation, Sophie steps back in disbelief and then the music begins and Lance cheers. I cheer for Lance every time I watch it. Love it!
Just stated watching it all again, absolutely brilliant..I don't know if anybody will ever read this but new series please..
The very human, primal shock and joy of touching 900 years ago, amazingly acted.
Such a great show. I sobbed when this scene was first shown. A beautiful end to a beautiful series.
What an incredible scene. Even the way the wheat wafts in the breeze as the camera pans out is perfect. I've seen it many times but Lance's reaction to seeing his find is making me cry again right now.
This show could have ended here and it would have been perfect. Still could be after season 3. I just always admired the Brits for not beating something beautiful into the ground. What a fantastic story. Pub?
Kid Keith yeah go on then
Go on then.
Yeah, pub! Meet ya there, mate! ;-)
Might be a bit late for a round....go on then.
Go on then.. just the one!
I'm a metal detectorist and this show is about so much more than that. It's absolutely brilliant and beautiful.
This is an abosultely brilliant series - Beautifully written and filmed. As a detectorist I can tell you the series really did a great job researching and capturing the antics of the worldwide metal detecting community. The cast did an extraordinary job turning into many of the same characters I know in the detecting community and in our monthly finds meetings.
Im starting to watch it from the beginning again 🏺📿🗡️
Me too.
Watched it twice, but each time discover new details.
Who`s cutting onions here???😅
One of the best moments of TV history EVER.
Haha dance. So happy for lance. Finally hardwork paid off ❤
Dear producer, director and actor, please shoot a sequel to this fantastically beautiful and funny series "Detectorists"! It is the best series on television that I have ever seen, even if it was only shown on Arte with translated subtitles for German television and can be seen in the media library there until October. Perhaps it would also be dubbed linguistically by a German, I think it would be able to achieve a good success with us in Germany. Although I love the original English language version very much, because the voices and the actors are just wonderful. In all honesty, "Detectorists" is really great, please please shoot more of it, the audience will thank you! Especially now in the gloomy Corana times ,detectorits is simply a bright light in the television sky, and probably brings many people to start with this wonderful hobby. I've been looking for my detector myself since 2012, it helps me to understand nature better every day and has helped me a lot in coping with the grief of my wife who passed away too early. Please let this series live again, people will thank you.
I go back to this perfect series every time I need to feel like I’m losing myself in this life , it never dulls or loses it’s poignant power it’s perfect it’s subtle and funny and true it’s friendships not made on how people look or what they have. . It’s about people who don’t care what anyone thinks of them or what they love to do , they just love being there , I cry at the theme song I cry at Lance being used by his ex but still trying to help , I cry at Mackenzie his lovely gf who just loves him for him , I love this too much a middle ahead man who sits on his own watches and cries at the perfection of every single episode , thanks to Mackenzie crook who may sort of realize what he made nut no way would know just how deeply this affects people , normal flawed people who Need to see good people win , I get angry when I tell people to watch it and they don’t , If you miss this you really really don’t know what your missing , Love reading people’s comments here too , I feel belonging with you all thanks to two men and their metal detectors
These 3 actors are magnificent; utterly believable and so in tune with the moods of the show
Wonderful!!! More Please Mr. Crook . We need more
One of my all time favorite shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deserves a second run. Brilliant genius art fantastic lovely and oh so rare.
The Detectorist just kind of snuck in there for me like reconnecting with an old friend. It felt familiar in a way that was a distant memory from another time and place that could reach the here and now. As for the moment, time stopped. I feel gratefull.
So lovely you can scarcely put it into words.
The genius of Lance hearing the horses…
Just to get a little bit poetic about life…always, ALWAYS listen to your instincts. They’re within you for a damn good reason. You get a bad feeling about something or someone, don’t do whatever it is. Don’t get in that car, don’t go in that room, don’t make that call. Stop, back off, run away, rethink.
You get a good feeling, go for it…and don’t let anyone, even your best mates, mock you into not trying.
Mackenzie Crook, you damn genius. So so good, from the music to the cast to the locations to the scripts. Pure gold.
Im a little ashamed at how long it took me to watch this show, but oh my god was it worth the wait. One of the greatest shows ive ever seen, moments like these actually bring put tears
Fantastic cast - Wonderful photography - Fantastic writing - Gorgeous music - Wonderful countryside. Just brilliant . Toby Jones' performance is the rock.
And that's how you do it folks. A "Wait a minute.", let's see what this is. Great show. And fabulous representation of what we do out there! Keep em' coming!
The traditional happy dance. It is about the journey. It is about the closest thing to time travel. All the people that have come and gone before us.
It was because of watching a random RUclips video about this show. I binged the whole series. Lovely series to watch.
This scene gives this old coil swinger goosebumps…
A brilliant moment
The best British comedy I have ever seen: observational, kind and gripping like no other. Let there be a fourth series. We can't do with not knowing how the characters are today. All of them are strong enough to be at the centre of new stories...
Ted Lasso is another.
Love this show. Funny, warm and subtly clever. A cracking cast of well drawn characters with a beautiful supporting cameo by the English countryside. The theme song (by Johnny Flynn) is lovely too. Season one on Netflix at the moment.
One of the great moments of TV History
As a metal detectorist myself who has also found gold. I can confirm that his reaction is certainly not far off..
I live 200m from that church!! I walk on that field, such a special location and fantastic series. Thoroughly enjoyed. 👍👍👍
I loved this series. Like "Last of the summer wine" for my generation. My only regret is that Sophie wasn't in the last series. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much.
Don’t know what it is exactly, but this show hits the perfect spot! So simple, with characters that are just charming, beautiful English countryside and the fact that Mackenzie Crook is an absolute genius… makes it just brilliant! 👌❤️👏👏👏
This scene just makes me so happy. The emotion in Lance’s face, the screaming and dancing…Just pure joy. I love this show so much.
from the west US. This series had me from one of the first lines ! Pull tab , Sell them on e-Bay. people pay money for this shit. I've watched all of season one and can't wait for season 2. Award winning writing. great cast. good music. now off to find some more pull tabs!
I HOPE YOU HAVE CAUGHT UP BY NOW. SEASON 2 AND 3 HAVE GONE. MACKENZIE SAID, SEASON 4 IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT HE WILL NEED TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT
The punch line to this opening scene was "Sad Tits" and I immediately know who the sad tits were!
The field where Lance finds his gold is just west of Aldham, Suffolk, south of St Mary's church. Beautiful place.
Found the spot on Google Earth, thanks. Lovely part of the world.
I watch this once a day and makes me happy
This scene is the greatest in tv history. A million emotions all wrapped up in one. Gives me chills every time.
That wonderful feeling of paying your dues for years and finally finding something valuable! Hard to explain how satisfying that is unless you've spent thousands of hours metal detecting and finding very little of value...
I'll be grateful to Mackenzie Crook to the day I die for this absolute gem of a TV series.
I watch Dad's Army over and over again because it makes me feel happy inside,,,I now have something new to watch,,God Bless Detectorists,,ps my favourite character must be the farmer and his Dogs🤣🤣❤️
Never get tired of this clip. I must have watched it a hundred times. One of the most beautifully funny TV shows ever.
I was looking for something to watch and just stumbled across this series, it doesn't get better than this , brilliant !
Looking forward to the return of Detectorists and superb news a third series will be here by the end of 2017 and being filmed now :)
dm51964 and what a series it was! I don't hold too much hope for a 4th series but Crook is an inspired actor and director. I really hope these two work onscreen again.
Beautiful television, this scene brings a lump to my throat every time.
This is the most beautifully written show ever. The acting is out of this world.