The Hour - episode 3
Aug. 3rd, 2011 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI thought we were watching a show about making a news show, not Downton Abbey forty years on...never mind.
I honestly missed out that Ruth's fiance was played by Andrew 'Moriarty' Scott until the previouslies. I'll be honest, for most of the ep, I was still at 'why isn't this show about Anna Chancellor's character? She's the best. Ooh, pretty', and enjoying myself criticising the characters for being idiots and then not, but things did get dramatically interesting towards the end. Hector's wife seeing the lipstick! Granted, her behaviour the morning after was a bit jarring. Apart from the order to Bel to take care of him as a coded message: 'I'll wait you out'. But that was a nice bit of getting us to sympathise with a woman who was a bit of an idiot, but didn't deserve to be cheated on.
Not that invested in the love triangle. Hector has broader shoulders, but is married. Freddy adores her but can't treat her well most of the time - probably because he's about fifteen, really. (Bel was spot on in calling him a boy as she fluently translated general fifties argot. Of course 'in trouble' meant pregnant.) I like the level of comfort and intimacy Bel and Freddy have, I suppose. But I hate it that the love quadrangle is the main thing about Bel. I'd hate it more, but the same is true of Hector, when the struggling with the nepotism and his place in the old boys network/being judged on his merits is the most interesting thing about him. But blah blah all about Freddie. I wonder if Abi Morgan realises her blind spots?
Oh, that house has been used for a million other costume dramas hasn't it. Speaking of the costumes...drool.
Right, but then things got interesting with Freddie's bad day. Actually, I thought leaving a trail of destruction at his poor dad's house was deeply unprofessional. I suppose Kish or his associates wanted to leave a message (in his father and Bel, Freddy is vulnerable). But then the encounter at night, and suddenly Freddie's scrawniness put him in a very feminised role. (Good acting by Wishaw and Gorman). Kish was bigger than him and had training on him. But he let Freddy 'win' the stuggle - and then he CHOSE DEATH. We know that Bright Stone is a person and scary enough at that. Then we had the turning to Bel for help, but, apart from Hector being there, he'd rejected her help that morning after she'd turfed him out the night before (on the face of it, none of those rejections were unreasonable or terminal).
Clarence had a few nice 'I'm watching you' moments.
Cross-posting from Dreamwidth as I first talked about the last episode here so it would be a shame for the tag to go to waste.
I honestly missed out that Ruth's fiance was played by Andrew 'Moriarty' Scott until the previouslies. I'll be honest, for most of the ep, I was still at 'why isn't this show about Anna Chancellor's character? She's the best. Ooh, pretty', and enjoying myself criticising the characters for being idiots and then not, but things did get dramatically interesting towards the end. Hector's wife seeing the lipstick! Granted, her behaviour the morning after was a bit jarring. Apart from the order to Bel to take care of him as a coded message: 'I'll wait you out'. But that was a nice bit of getting us to sympathise with a woman who was a bit of an idiot, but didn't deserve to be cheated on.
Not that invested in the love triangle. Hector has broader shoulders, but is married. Freddy adores her but can't treat her well most of the time - probably because he's about fifteen, really. (Bel was spot on in calling him a boy as she fluently translated general fifties argot. Of course 'in trouble' meant pregnant.) I like the level of comfort and intimacy Bel and Freddy have, I suppose. But I hate it that the love quadrangle is the main thing about Bel. I'd hate it more, but the same is true of Hector, when the struggling with the nepotism and his place in the old boys network/being judged on his merits is the most interesting thing about him. But blah blah all about Freddie. I wonder if Abi Morgan realises her blind spots?
Oh, that house has been used for a million other costume dramas hasn't it. Speaking of the costumes...drool.
Right, but then things got interesting with Freddie's bad day. Actually, I thought leaving a trail of destruction at his poor dad's house was deeply unprofessional. I suppose Kish or his associates wanted to leave a message (in his father and Bel, Freddy is vulnerable). But then the encounter at night, and suddenly Freddie's scrawniness put him in a very feminised role. (Good acting by Wishaw and Gorman). Kish was bigger than him and had training on him. But he let Freddy 'win' the stuggle - and then he CHOSE DEATH. We know that Bright Stone is a person and scary enough at that. Then we had the turning to Bel for help, but, apart from Hector being there, he'd rejected her help that morning after she'd turfed him out the night before (on the face of it, none of those rejections were unreasonable or terminal).
Clarence had a few nice 'I'm watching you' moments.
Cross-posting from Dreamwidth as I first talked about the last episode here so it would be a shame for the tag to go to waste.
