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shallownessGotham 1.04
Meh. Not even Bruce and Oswald were compelling enough to lift this – I’ll get to Fish in a second. The assassin working for both families was interesting, if using a method that squicked me, but the nuances of who wanted what lost me.
I was mainly snarking at what terrible detectives Harvey and Jim are – the latter needing the help of a butler and a kid to do his work and the former nearly always turning to Fish. Who, with her weapon very much felt like they were pandering to the male gaze to me – if Liza became her own woman eventually, that might be satisfying.
And at the end, even if the police are crooked, Oswald, you could have collected the container with your fingerprints all over it and wiped the door.
But I do like the production design, and I’m probably going to wait until a certain Casting Spoiler turns up unless if the current level of not engaging me and gore continues. I’m also wondering who will be the first person off The OC to turn up (probably Jim Robinson).
Downton 5.07
I thought that picking up immediately after the last episode was a good move – it made sense for everyone, nearly, to have the same preoccupations, which it generally doesn’t. For example, see my snort at Tom ‘finally’ coming to a decision to look to America. By the way, the kid playing Sybbie is understandably terrible/natural, but so cute.
Cora finding out Edith’s secret (alas, Mrs Drew, you are no longer worthy of screen time) and her hurt and angry maternal betrayal, and Violet’s better understanding than Rosamund, played out well. But the plan? As ever with Edith’s child, the phrase is ‘What could possibly go wrong?’
Rosamund was very much Robert’s sister.
And it’s all Downton Abbey, bastion of conservatism, home of single parents.
Ugh, Mary, although it was at least Violet 2, Mary 0, with the line about compassion and Violet’s motive actually being missing her bestie. Mary doesn’t deserve him, but Charles can see her pretty clearly, including her vanity and what drives her seeming heartlessness. Will going to Poland be a good move? Well, that was the waste of a good fake kiss on a couple I’m not that bothered about, and I tend to think Mabel can do better than Tony.
Violet’s butler, though, is still aces. I was distraught when he said he was resigning – until she showed some great sang-froid and said it was a tactic. This had better be the case.
A classic sneer from Thomas, early on, but then awkward attempts to make it up with Baxter, which led to her and Molesley going on a first date, and it was lovely, except when I remember that season 1 Anna and Bates were lovely and look where they are now.
Whoa, Lord Merton’s sons, what delightfully ill-bred specimens you are. Sarah Bunting levels of bad manners. The hit rate for raised voices at dinner this season has been exceptionally hight. I expected Violet to be the one to lay the smackdown, but I suppose they wanted to underline that Tom is leaving. The use of that bad language was almost amusing given Marigold.
Penelope Wilton!!!
I was thinking that Atticus hadn’t actually proposed to Rose, but then he did, and she was quite mature about it, so all the best to them, but will they find another niece/cousin/young thing in the family tree for the next series? Or will he be killed off in a silly way?
Non-seriously – was it the dog’s name? More likely someone realised Isis must be ancient in dog years, and I was amused that dognapper Thomas had to carry her. Robert and Mary showed more feeling over the dog than Edith’s grief over Gregson, mind, so I was less touched than I would have been over Robert and Cora’s rapprochement being cemented over the body of a dying dog.
Meh. Not even Bruce and Oswald were compelling enough to lift this – I’ll get to Fish in a second. The assassin working for both families was interesting, if using a method that squicked me, but the nuances of who wanted what lost me.
I was mainly snarking at what terrible detectives Harvey and Jim are – the latter needing the help of a butler and a kid to do his work and the former nearly always turning to Fish. Who, with her weapon very much felt like they were pandering to the male gaze to me – if Liza became her own woman eventually, that might be satisfying.
And at the end, even if the police are crooked, Oswald, you could have collected the container with your fingerprints all over it and wiped the door.
But I do like the production design, and I’m probably going to wait until a certain Casting Spoiler turns up unless if the current level of not engaging me and gore continues. I’m also wondering who will be the first person off The OC to turn up (probably Jim Robinson).
Downton 5.07
I thought that picking up immediately after the last episode was a good move – it made sense for everyone, nearly, to have the same preoccupations, which it generally doesn’t. For example, see my snort at Tom ‘finally’ coming to a decision to look to America. By the way, the kid playing Sybbie is understandably terrible/natural, but so cute.
Cora finding out Edith’s secret (alas, Mrs Drew, you are no longer worthy of screen time) and her hurt and angry maternal betrayal, and Violet’s better understanding than Rosamund, played out well. But the plan? As ever with Edith’s child, the phrase is ‘What could possibly go wrong?’
Rosamund was very much Robert’s sister.
And it’s all Downton Abbey, bastion of conservatism, home of single parents.
Ugh, Mary, although it was at least Violet 2, Mary 0, with the line about compassion and Violet’s motive actually being missing her bestie. Mary doesn’t deserve him, but Charles can see her pretty clearly, including her vanity and what drives her seeming heartlessness. Will going to Poland be a good move? Well, that was the waste of a good fake kiss on a couple I’m not that bothered about, and I tend to think Mabel can do better than Tony.
Violet’s butler, though, is still aces. I was distraught when he said he was resigning – until she showed some great sang-froid and said it was a tactic. This had better be the case.
A classic sneer from Thomas, early on, but then awkward attempts to make it up with Baxter, which led to her and Molesley going on a first date, and it was lovely, except when I remember that season 1 Anna and Bates were lovely and look where they are now.
Whoa, Lord Merton’s sons, what delightfully ill-bred specimens you are. Sarah Bunting levels of bad manners. The hit rate for raised voices at dinner this season has been exceptionally hight. I expected Violet to be the one to lay the smackdown, but I suppose they wanted to underline that Tom is leaving. The use of that bad language was almost amusing given Marigold.
Penelope Wilton!!!
I was thinking that Atticus hadn’t actually proposed to Rose, but then he did, and she was quite mature about it, so all the best to them, but will they find another niece/cousin/young thing in the family tree for the next series? Or will he be killed off in a silly way?
Non-seriously – was it the dog’s name? More likely someone realised Isis must be ancient in dog years, and I was amused that dognapper Thomas had to carry her. Robert and Mary showed more feeling over the dog than Edith’s grief over Gregson, mind, so I was less touched than I would have been over Robert and Cora’s rapprochement being cemented over the body of a dying dog.
