Last Tango in Halifax/Skeletons
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shallownessI've been mainlining the last half of Last Tango in Halifax this week.
Ep 4 (watched on Sunday night)
AKA The one with the maybe ghost, because not everything was rationalised away, which gave Caroline and Gillian a taste of what it’s like to have a sister, I s’pose. I liked Alan’s friends and was laughing heartily by the time everyone arrived at t’farm and wanted to know who Paul was/why he were there/what had happened to the landrover.
Ep 5 (watched almost live on Tuesday night)
My, this is a boozy show. So, there was the cosmic twins revelation (which made me check up Nicola Walker's age on imdb - 'so, we want you to play a character six years older than your birth age'. Also, it made sense that Caroline and John would be older getting married and having children, but there's no indication that Gillian went to university and her relationship with Eddie sounds like one between younger people.) More bad decisions from Gillian - and when ROBBIE by virtue of not having an SO or being entangled with exes, Robbie, who is the brother of the abusive husband you let die who has been badmouthing you for years, is your best choice, THAT’S NOT A GOOD CHOICE. The way they had Lawrence find out and hinted at the power imbalance of Caroline being Kate’s boss was good. Again, I spent a good time howling with laughter by the time Allan’s friends returned and at how Gillian’s farm (and, to a lesser extent, Caroline’s house) are magnets for chaos.
Ep 6 (watched on Wednesday night)
I wonder how the Daily Mail has reviewed this show? Not enough to hunt it up, mind.
Wainwright went all Bronte (I was thinking more Rochester/Jane than Cathy/Heathcliff) at the end.
The boy they'd cast as young Alan was just right. ETA: I wasn't entirely enamoured of all the flashback use in this episode, especially when there were no flashbacks previously. And there were also some repetitions that a script editor should have picked up on.
My, what pretty eyes Sasha Dewan has, almost as pretty as Nicola Walker's.
Ha! Confirmation that there was a Robbie and Gillian before there was an Eddie and Gillian.
ETA: Loved how both daughters had come round to the relationship, how Allan and Celia's love story has become talismanic for everyone.
Last night, I also watched Skeletons (2010) on DVD and loved it. I'd heard good things about this film when it was out in the cinema (on the art-house circuit) but never made enough of a push to go see it. Shame, because if more of us had gone to see it, more people might have heard of it.
It's a really hard film to classify. It's eccentric, funny, heartfelt and a bit disturbing. The double act of Davis and Bennett (except they're not a double act, they're two guys who have long worked together) help exorcise the skeletons from people's closets (it makes beautiful sense in the film). And there's this one job, see...
Oh, try to see it. It's well-acted, beautifully shot, well-written and directed by Nick 'I want to see what he comes up with next' Whitfield. If you find the fact that one of the deleted scenes is entitled 'Cat-Faced Ladies of the 1940s' intriguing, it'll be right up your street.
Ep 4 (watched on Sunday night)
AKA The one with the maybe ghost, because not everything was rationalised away, which gave Caroline and Gillian a taste of what it’s like to have a sister, I s’pose. I liked Alan’s friends and was laughing heartily by the time everyone arrived at t’farm and wanted to know who Paul was/why he were there/what had happened to the landrover.
Ep 5 (watched almost live on Tuesday night)
My, this is a boozy show. So, there was the cosmic twins revelation (which made me check up Nicola Walker's age on imdb - 'so, we want you to play a character six years older than your birth age'. Also, it made sense that Caroline and John would be older getting married and having children, but there's no indication that Gillian went to university and her relationship with Eddie sounds like one between younger people.) More bad decisions from Gillian - and when ROBBIE by virtue of not having an SO or being entangled with exes, Robbie, who is the brother of the abusive husband you let die who has been badmouthing you for years, is your best choice, THAT’S NOT A GOOD CHOICE. The way they had Lawrence find out and hinted at the power imbalance of Caroline being Kate’s boss was good. Again, I spent a good time howling with laughter by the time Allan’s friends returned and at how Gillian’s farm (and, to a lesser extent, Caroline’s house) are magnets for chaos.
Ep 6 (watched on Wednesday night)
I wonder how the Daily Mail has reviewed this show? Not enough to hunt it up, mind.
Wainwright went all Bronte (I was thinking more Rochester/Jane than Cathy/Heathcliff) at the end.
The boy they'd cast as young Alan was just right. ETA: I wasn't entirely enamoured of all the flashback use in this episode, especially when there were no flashbacks previously. And there were also some repetitions that a script editor should have picked up on.
My, what pretty eyes Sasha Dewan has, almost as pretty as Nicola Walker's.
Ha! Confirmation that there was a Robbie and Gillian before there was an Eddie and Gillian.
ETA: Loved how both daughters had come round to the relationship, how Allan and Celia's love story has become talismanic for everyone.
Last night, I also watched Skeletons (2010) on DVD and loved it. I'd heard good things about this film when it was out in the cinema (on the art-house circuit) but never made enough of a push to go see it. Shame, because if more of us had gone to see it, more people might have heard of it.
It's a really hard film to classify. It's eccentric, funny, heartfelt and a bit disturbing. The double act of Davis and Bennett (except they're not a double act, they're two guys who have long worked together) help exorcise the skeletons from people's closets (it makes beautiful sense in the film). And there's this one job, see...
Oh, try to see it. It's well-acted, beautifully shot, well-written and directed by Nick 'I want to see what he comes up with next' Whitfield. If you find the fact that one of the deleted scenes is entitled 'Cat-Faced Ladies of the 1940s' intriguing, it'll be right up your street.
