Mr and Mrs Beresford
Jul. 30th, 2015 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessFor a while there yesterday afternoon, it looked as if livejournal was blocked from where I’m accessing the net. But, in another part of the building, it’s working today.
I caught up on Partners in Crime - The Secret Adversary part 1
It’s daffy.
If this is part of the Beeb proving it can do Christie too after ITV has become synonymous with Poirot and Marple, I am unconvinced that it’s quite good enough as a first shot across the bows.
There were stylish moments, like the opening credits, and good production values. It’s hard to keep your eyes off Jessica Rayne as curious dynamo Tuppence, but, as I feared, I wasn’t entirely convinced by what I saw of Walliams as Tommy. Apart from bringing his baggage as an entertainer and upping the camp by 25 per cent automatically, he didn’t convey much love of adventure, which IIRC is what gets these two into all these pickles. Which are ridiculous pickles if you think about them or how the clues fall into their laps too much.
I don’t know, I presume most of the audience was like me, vaguely remembering the books, enjoying the period decor, but sure it was all a bit off. It’d be good to read the views of bigger fans of the books about the changes. I believe they’ve changed the time to the early 1950s, and were engaging with the post-war/start of the cold war time of change, but would British people be saying ‘Okay’ then?
With Tuppence being a fan of detective novels and yet not noticing that Tommy’s latest get rich scheme was being a BEEKEEPER, we’re in knowing territory. Entertaining enough, and a married couple as opposed to a non-couple stretching out the UST for too long investigating is a nice change, but it didn’t quite hold together tonally, so it’s not threatening to becom a classic.
I caught up on Partners in Crime - The Secret Adversary part 1
It’s daffy.
If this is part of the Beeb proving it can do Christie too after ITV has become synonymous with Poirot and Marple, I am unconvinced that it’s quite good enough as a first shot across the bows.
There were stylish moments, like the opening credits, and good production values. It’s hard to keep your eyes off Jessica Rayne as curious dynamo Tuppence, but, as I feared, I wasn’t entirely convinced by what I saw of Walliams as Tommy. Apart from bringing his baggage as an entertainer and upping the camp by 25 per cent automatically, he didn’t convey much love of adventure, which IIRC is what gets these two into all these pickles. Which are ridiculous pickles if you think about them or how the clues fall into their laps too much.
I don’t know, I presume most of the audience was like me, vaguely remembering the books, enjoying the period decor, but sure it was all a bit off. It’d be good to read the views of bigger fans of the books about the changes. I believe they’ve changed the time to the early 1950s, and were engaging with the post-war/start of the cold war time of change, but would British people be saying ‘Okay’ then?
With Tuppence being a fan of detective novels and yet not noticing that Tommy’s latest get rich scheme was being a BEEKEEPER, we’re in knowing territory. Entertaining enough, and a married couple as opposed to a non-couple stretching out the UST for too long investigating is a nice change, but it didn’t quite hold together tonally, so it’s not threatening to becom a classic.
