Shows I watched over Christmas
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shallownessStrictly Christmas films special
Confession: I’d been expecting Frankie to win since hearing who was doing it. The first time I watched this, there was terrible buffering. I’ve subsequently rewatched most of the dances and feel better qualified to comment.
The dance introducing the contestants was pretty clever. You could sense Chloe’s need to impress and nab a celeb next year.
I didn’t like the Narnia theme of the judges’ costumes, particularly. I might have lived with it if Craig was Turkish Delight instead of a Cowardly Lion outfit they added glitter to, rather, than, you know, Aslan, and Len could have been Father Christmas instead of Not My Peter
I wish they’d kept the fringed trousers for someone who was being a Christmas tree. Anyway, Ainsley and Karen hammed it up, I thought there could have been more kicks and flicks and those that he did do could have been sharper and then I realised the scoreboard is mostly going to be down to Craig because Len was utterly checked out and the other two judges were Christmas scoring.
PIGS IN BLANKETS. YES.
Next Gethin, whom everybody likes, and I thought the bit of abdomen and lycra weren’t strictly necessary, but welcome. When I first watched it, it seemed like a slow starting quickstep and then there were lifts, and I wondered if the smoke was to hide his footwork or if I was just comparing it to the last few quicksteps I’d seen on the show. But he was perfectly respectable.
All the effort for the Clauditorium business was much appreciated. As was the deployment of Neil, a copper for this one. I decided to be tickled at a Russian Prime Minister, as Pasha is so cute. I wanted Pamela to have a good time, and she clearly did, and it was catching. She always was better than you expected her to be, and six years on, those lifts were impressive.
Claudia sold the sexual predation for LOLs, which is impressive in a different way!?
Denise Lewis’s son not knowing Anton’s name was a beautiful moment. The dance was elegant, no need to stuff in lifts, although I did think that she had skippy moments both times I watched it. And lo, Darcey gave Craig her disgusted face for critiquing some stuff and then she, who had been uniformly positive, gave the same mark. But even though Anton was pretending he hadn’t noticed Len was dispensing 10s with kingly largesse, that he managed to crack Claudia up was infectious
So the show continued to try to make it up to Melvin (why? I don’t remember being outraged that he went first) and gave him the Charleston. The first time I ‘watched’ it (I put the quote marks in because it was so skippy that I didn’t really) my mind was drifting to ‘what if Danny or Ore had this routine’ territory, and I think that’s still valid, so the 40 shocked me. Now, I’d still say that was Christmas marking, but it was way better than anything we’d seen from him at the start of the season, even allowing for Janette being able to do showy lifts. Did they do extra practicing?
Frankie’s samba looked better than Louise’s, and we got a good reminder of the superior quality of her dancing. Giving her ‘Let it Go’ was a canny choice as I just about remembered her doing ‘Gravity’, and if Craig had been giving Marvin 10s, so should he give it to her. How the big lift developed was rather gorgeous.
Matt Goss was fine, but he’s no Bing Crosby or Shirley Bassey, is he? However, Karen’s skirt was glorious.
On the first watch, I blamed the ‘cast of 2016’ and 2016 for giving it to Melvin and I still think Frankie should have won. Ah well, I’ll always have Harry Judd beating Tom Chambers last year.
I also managed to watch most of Peter Pan Goes Wrong live, and given that I’d just managed to scald myself and was watching it with my hand in a bold of cold water and still laughed helplessly, it was hilarious. It’s mainly slapstick (a recurring theme of my Christmas holiday) – and it does what is says on the tin, the premise is that it's a televised adaptation of a production of 'Peter Pan' and what can go wrong does. You can tell that it's origins are on stage and they could have developed the possibilities of it as TV more, but it's more important that it was funny.
(I'm in the middle of catching up on The Witness for the Prosecution, and I need to post about Sherlock and Brooklyn Nine-Nine sooner rather than later.)
Confession: I’d been expecting Frankie to win since hearing who was doing it. The first time I watched this, there was terrible buffering. I’ve subsequently rewatched most of the dances and feel better qualified to comment.
The dance introducing the contestants was pretty clever. You could sense Chloe’s need to impress and nab a celeb next year.
I didn’t like the Narnia theme of the judges’ costumes, particularly. I might have lived with it if Craig was Turkish Delight instead of a Cowardly Lion outfit they added glitter to, rather, than, you know, Aslan, and Len could have been Father Christmas instead of Not My Peter
I wish they’d kept the fringed trousers for someone who was being a Christmas tree. Anyway, Ainsley and Karen hammed it up, I thought there could have been more kicks and flicks and those that he did do could have been sharper and then I realised the scoreboard is mostly going to be down to Craig because Len was utterly checked out and the other two judges were Christmas scoring.
PIGS IN BLANKETS. YES.
Next Gethin, whom everybody likes, and I thought the bit of abdomen and lycra weren’t strictly necessary, but welcome. When I first watched it, it seemed like a slow starting quickstep and then there were lifts, and I wondered if the smoke was to hide his footwork or if I was just comparing it to the last few quicksteps I’d seen on the show. But he was perfectly respectable.
All the effort for the Clauditorium business was much appreciated. As was the deployment of Neil, a copper for this one. I decided to be tickled at a Russian Prime Minister, as Pasha is so cute. I wanted Pamela to have a good time, and she clearly did, and it was catching. She always was better than you expected her to be, and six years on, those lifts were impressive.
Claudia sold the sexual predation for LOLs, which is impressive in a different way!?
Denise Lewis’s son not knowing Anton’s name was a beautiful moment. The dance was elegant, no need to stuff in lifts, although I did think that she had skippy moments both times I watched it. And lo, Darcey gave Craig her disgusted face for critiquing some stuff and then she, who had been uniformly positive, gave the same mark. But even though Anton was pretending he hadn’t noticed Len was dispensing 10s with kingly largesse, that he managed to crack Claudia up was infectious
So the show continued to try to make it up to Melvin (why? I don’t remember being outraged that he went first) and gave him the Charleston. The first time I ‘watched’ it (I put the quote marks in because it was so skippy that I didn’t really) my mind was drifting to ‘what if Danny or Ore had this routine’ territory, and I think that’s still valid, so the 40 shocked me. Now, I’d still say that was Christmas marking, but it was way better than anything we’d seen from him at the start of the season, even allowing for Janette being able to do showy lifts. Did they do extra practicing?
Frankie’s samba looked better than Louise’s, and we got a good reminder of the superior quality of her dancing. Giving her ‘Let it Go’ was a canny choice as I just about remembered her doing ‘Gravity’, and if Craig had been giving Marvin 10s, so should he give it to her. How the big lift developed was rather gorgeous.
Matt Goss was fine, but he’s no Bing Crosby or Shirley Bassey, is he? However, Karen’s skirt was glorious.
On the first watch, I blamed the ‘cast of 2016’ and 2016 for giving it to Melvin and I still think Frankie should have won. Ah well, I’ll always have Harry Judd beating Tom Chambers last year.
I also managed to watch most of Peter Pan Goes Wrong live, and given that I’d just managed to scald myself and was watching it with my hand in a bold of cold water and still laughed helplessly, it was hilarious. It’s mainly slapstick (a recurring theme of my Christmas holiday) – and it does what is says on the tin, the premise is that it's a televised adaptation of a production of 'Peter Pan' and what can go wrong does. You can tell that it's origins are on stage and they could have developed the possibilities of it as TV more, but it's more important that it was funny.
(I'm in the middle of catching up on The Witness for the Prosecution, and I need to post about Sherlock and Brooklyn Nine-Nine sooner rather than later.)
