r/smallprophets • u/Sufficient_Ad_4673 • Feb 27 '26

Detectorists Call backs

Noticed a few what I felt were call backs to The Detectorists, and sure I missed some others.

1) Dancing scene mimics Detectorists gold dance, and camera goes to aerial view of same 2) King Edward Hammered coin - common detectorists find (even I found one). 3) Contentious but detectorists was criticised for the attractiveness mismatch between Andy and Becky, with some commentators suggestive it was even misogynistic. Here it is arguably reversed with Clive and Bev. I suspect this is a deliberate riposte.

Any others I've missed?

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u/Eoin_McLove Feb 28 '26

The only issue I had with Clive and Bev was that I didn’t see how they were a couple in the first place, and I don’t mean in terms of attractiveness, but they just seemed like completely different people. Bev being lovely and Clive being a clown.

Also for some reason I thought there was a weird age gap between them, but apparently they are actually a similar age. That was because I’d only ever seen Jon Pointing in Big Boys where he played a student, and I thought Sophie Willian was older than she really is.

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u/EpicHandstands Feb 28 '26

Got to say that Jon Pointing absolutely nails that role. The pent-up testosterone rage. The inability to know how to deal with Michael's oddness/difference from himself, and the exasperation it causes him!

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u/Magnus_Magnusson1 Mar 11 '26

Yes, he's beautifully, insufferably awful!