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shallownessPartners in Crime, N or M? part 3
There was a lot of knocking people unconscious, or getting them unconscious any which way, really. Plus guns and period-appropriate handcuffs. As Tuppence was still in the same outfit for most of the episode, I learned that what I thought was double animal print was triple animal print (the blouse, the coat and the trimming on her shoes.)
It was all rather farcical without being that funny.
Most of the women viewers must have released a sigh of relief that it was Mrs Sprott, although the beginning of the episode tried to implicate Veronica. Hotelier Sheila and Carl the Smuggler were quite cute, and it turned out that Gilbert the scientist was a prat. (I don't think the colour-blindish casting has always worked, because the show doesn't always deal with the implications of having black or mixed-race characters in those positions in those times. Of course, it's been a while since I read Christie, they may be being faithful to the books, but she was writing at a time when she'd be using what are now seen as racist terms, so I'm not convinced.)
No big 'Partners in Crime will return' announcement. Seems about right. It's been...unconvincing.
There was a lot of knocking people unconscious, or getting them unconscious any which way, really. Plus guns and period-appropriate handcuffs. As Tuppence was still in the same outfit for most of the episode, I learned that what I thought was double animal print was triple animal print (the blouse, the coat and the trimming on her shoes.)
It was all rather farcical without being that funny.
Most of the women viewers must have released a sigh of relief that it was Mrs Sprott, although the beginning of the episode tried to implicate Veronica. Hotelier Sheila and Carl the Smuggler were quite cute, and it turned out that Gilbert the scientist was a prat. (I don't think the colour-blindish casting has always worked, because the show doesn't always deal with the implications of having black or mixed-race characters in those positions in those times. Of course, it's been a while since I read Christie, they may be being faithful to the books, but she was writing at a time when she'd be using what are now seen as racist terms, so I'm not convinced.)
No big 'Partners in Crime will return' announcement. Seems about right. It's been...unconvincing.
