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All caught up (for now)
Two series ended.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 5 finale: Jake and Amy
Good idea to make the wedding a background for the issues of the season and longer, with minor wedding hitches that Jake foresaw and…a bomb threat. At the break, I was suspecting Teddy of issuing it so that he could break off the wedding.
A couple of lines that made me snort particularly: badger hair being indistinguishable from human hair, Belgium’s great spaghetti and Gina finding something to care about in Holt’s e-mail.
The best visual of the first half wasn’t Holt trotting alongside Cheddar, but Amy slapping the nicotine patch on her forehead. The best visual of the second half was not a full-bellied Cheddar lying among the wreckage of the cake, either. It was Boyle’s reaction shots at the vows.
I liked the little pay-offs of the second half, mainly in the vows and that it was Amy’s ‘arch-nemesis’ behind it, not Jake’s. I don’t remember the guy who played the violin. Amy was rightly chuffed that Holt quoted her, and the last gag of nobody being able to read his expression was perfect. As I’ve said before, if he does get the job, it’s going to make the next season trickier to write.
Poldark 4.7
This episode left me wondering and worrying where Morwenna was – has she gone to her mother? Her sister??? Back to the Whitworths? Was she wandering up and down the Cornwall coastline?
As we saw Ross and Demelza, who’d never had a honeymoon, be so happy in London, we knew it was too happy for this show. Enter Monk Adderley (possibly the most ridiculous name on the show thus far, although his ‘my dears’ and duelling made me desperately want Georgette Heyer adaptations). For some reason, he thought ‘I fancy my ward’ and ‘I have the locks of people I’ve killed in my buttons’ were ace chat-up lines. Strange man.
Demelza was flummoxed in London and made a few bad calls. Ross glowered unhelpfully. Caroline gave bad advice on subjects other than fashion and Dwight was the best of them. My only criticism of him is that he didn’t use the kids as a low blow to get Ross to pull back from the stupid duel.
I really liked Ross thinking he and Demelza were back in Cornwall while walking to the park, even though I have been sniffy about Ross’s dream sequences in the past.
And then Geoffrey Charles blasés in, laughing about the whole duelling business (ha, ha, someone died! It is precisely the equivalent of getting so drunk you throw up! TAKE AWAY HIS XBOX.) and noticing the similarity between his half-brother and Ross at the most inopportune moment. Elizabeth had been working so hard on managing George!
I was amused to see Adrian ‘Always and forever Wickham, especially in period dramas’ Lukas turn up, and put the upstart George in his place viz the law. I.E. HIS JOB.
It felt like Morwenna’s miscarriage was for the best, with Mrs Whitworth threatening an asylum for her. Poor sweet Drake thought he was being sensitive, but now got a glimpse into how traumatised Morwenna was. Sam thought it was best for Drake to be a blacksmith in his village so he could keep an eye on him, but it’s obviously to cause the maximum possible drama. At this point, I thought someone should look after Morwenna, but found myself more pro Drake/Rosina.
The plot cranked up with George trying so hard to find a way to pin something on Ross and then being reminded he was probably Valentine’s father. Dwight had had enough of London, but Demelza’s decision to go back with him blindsided us and Ross, who still hasn’t learned much, and when it came to it didn’t trust Demelza enough or understand her. I think the show lost sight of how much more we care about how Ross and Demelza can hurt each other so badly while loving each other so much, because whether Elizabeth can keep a hold of her husband while her oldest son carries on growing into an entitled snot is less interesting. I was very impatient for more Ross/Demelza discussion after the duel fall-out. What little we got made it clear they weren’t communicating well.
I’m a little amused she paid him back for the empty bed.
Also she looked gorgeous in the empire line dress.
The next episode and finale promised to include drama. IN CORNWALL.
4.8
In the ‘previously’, the last line of Demelza’s letter sounded like a grimmer threat than it had the first time around.
But then we had a wigtastic flashback, featuring young!Elizabeth with scarless!Ross dancing attendance, and Francis and George wishing they could. More importantly, we had a portent of doom from Aunt Agatha.
And then the Ennyses gave the Poldarks a lift part 1.
Demelza was soon swept up in managing Drake’s affairs. I got an answer to my previous question, Morwenna was living with her mum until sweet Drake did a bit of trauma victim whispering and offered a sexless marriage (he wasn’t shirtless this episode, so we’ll see) which seemed like the best way for her to regain mental equilibrium. Then she was living in a hut in the middle of The Village for reasons unclear. It was quite a windowless hut.
The Ennyses gave the Poldarks a lift part 2, and Caroline gave Ross some tart advice. Poor chap had had a dream where his association of Adderley with Hugh was made clear. I also liked that Ross was taking the weight of having killed a man seriously. Lord Falmouth unexpectedly decided to keep him at Westminster although he’d been a bit of a self-righteous nuisance.
Elizabeth’s face when she heard the banns for Morwenna and Drake was comic – after lots of George being mean to Valentine, who can’t help his beginnings, poor kid. Also, Demelza was very classy around him and Elizabeth.
But I got very cross with Elizabeth over Morwenna, even if you took what she was saying at face value, which I didn’t. For Morwenna, helping her and accepting the invitation, even standing up for Drake, were positive steps forward. But Elizabeth had mucked up Morwenna’s life and she was best left alone.
Anyway, George was horrible to Morwenna as well as Valentine, and Elizabeth’s lady of the manor ways fell about in tatters. I was all ‘your choices.’ Enter Ross to wind George up some more. Exit Ross.
Meanwhile, Morwenna was walking about some woods in the dark. Obviously, these weren’t the woods where Whitworth was killed, but cue scary dogs and this season’s thug. It looked like there was going to be more trauma for her, but Drake turned up and snarled a bit.
Redundant Ross got to take Demelza home and apologised for the duel, as he should, and she apologised for doing a runner, as she should. The state of them the morning after suggested all was well.
But meanwhile Elizabeth was so desperate for her second son that she was willing to sacrifice herself and her third child. Well, it’s not the first time she’s turned to drugs, although if this episode taught us anything, it’s probably not to listen to Ross about gynaecological issues. Because it was his plan.
But it seemed to work. Enter Ursula to convince her daddy he was Valentine’s daddy too – until the morning after.
After an episode that showed all his limitations, George’s devotion to Elizabeth (such as he was capable of giving) was almost touching. The ‘look what we have done’ line to Ross (excellent timing for your visit, again, R. Not) had the zing of truth, as did Ross knowing his way to the bedroom.
I was not sad for Elizabeth. Indeed, my fists may have gone up in the air, because Demelza will be spared awkward meetings and we’ll be spared Elizabeth’s mixed motivations, where you’re never sure if status or doing the decent thing is going to win over.
But Ross was so sad he went to the Julia Poldark Memorial cliff to stare at the sea (that, the portent of doom, shirtlessness and Demelza on the moral high ground kept the people filling in Poldark bingo cards busy). I liked his reprise of Drake’s ‘walk with me’ to Demelza.
I was also glad that Caroline was nice to Dwight, who had figured out what had killed Elizabeth (not Chote’s treatment, for once) and was understandably depressed. As he’d held little Ursula (echoes of Sarah), it was nice that Caroline wanted to make babies again. More seriously, I would imagine that seeing how London society mores had hurt Ross and Demelza put her off the place slightly.
If it took Elizabeth dying for Ross to see the parallels between what he’d put D through with her and what D had put him through with Hugh, I was totally fine with that. Demelza was fairly kind, and appreciated that Ross/Elizabeth had been more of a thing in Ross’s whole life. There was also a sense of mortality, building on the flashbacks and the pretence that the characters are in their late thirties.
We ended on a wedding. Did they use the special licence? I like to think they pushed it back, what with the fact no-one who should have been in mourning seemed to be, Verity had come to trot out Poldark Supremacy gubbins, and they’d put up Elizabeth’s gravestone. But anyway, wedding, with Morwenna feeling able to peck Drake on the cheek (his face!), Demelza in a flattering colour and Ross listening to her for once.
The Beeb promised us that Poldark would return. At some point when Victoria is not on, I presume.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 5 finale: Jake and Amy
Good idea to make the wedding a background for the issues of the season and longer, with minor wedding hitches that Jake foresaw and…a bomb threat. At the break, I was suspecting Teddy of issuing it so that he could break off the wedding.
A couple of lines that made me snort particularly: badger hair being indistinguishable from human hair, Belgium’s great spaghetti and Gina finding something to care about in Holt’s e-mail.
The best visual of the first half wasn’t Holt trotting alongside Cheddar, but Amy slapping the nicotine patch on her forehead. The best visual of the second half was not a full-bellied Cheddar lying among the wreckage of the cake, either. It was Boyle’s reaction shots at the vows.
I liked the little pay-offs of the second half, mainly in the vows and that it was Amy’s ‘arch-nemesis’ behind it, not Jake’s. I don’t remember the guy who played the violin. Amy was rightly chuffed that Holt quoted her, and the last gag of nobody being able to read his expression was perfect. As I’ve said before, if he does get the job, it’s going to make the next season trickier to write.
Poldark 4.7
This episode left me wondering and worrying where Morwenna was – has she gone to her mother? Her sister??? Back to the Whitworths? Was she wandering up and down the Cornwall coastline?
As we saw Ross and Demelza, who’d never had a honeymoon, be so happy in London, we knew it was too happy for this show. Enter Monk Adderley (possibly the most ridiculous name on the show thus far, although his ‘my dears’ and duelling made me desperately want Georgette Heyer adaptations). For some reason, he thought ‘I fancy my ward’ and ‘I have the locks of people I’ve killed in my buttons’ were ace chat-up lines. Strange man.
Demelza was flummoxed in London and made a few bad calls. Ross glowered unhelpfully. Caroline gave bad advice on subjects other than fashion and Dwight was the best of them. My only criticism of him is that he didn’t use the kids as a low blow to get Ross to pull back from the stupid duel.
I really liked Ross thinking he and Demelza were back in Cornwall while walking to the park, even though I have been sniffy about Ross’s dream sequences in the past.
And then Geoffrey Charles blasés in, laughing about the whole duelling business (ha, ha, someone died! It is precisely the equivalent of getting so drunk you throw up! TAKE AWAY HIS XBOX.) and noticing the similarity between his half-brother and Ross at the most inopportune moment. Elizabeth had been working so hard on managing George!
I was amused to see Adrian ‘Always and forever Wickham, especially in period dramas’ Lukas turn up, and put the upstart George in his place viz the law. I.E. HIS JOB.
It felt like Morwenna’s miscarriage was for the best, with Mrs Whitworth threatening an asylum for her. Poor sweet Drake thought he was being sensitive, but now got a glimpse into how traumatised Morwenna was. Sam thought it was best for Drake to be a blacksmith in his village so he could keep an eye on him, but it’s obviously to cause the maximum possible drama. At this point, I thought someone should look after Morwenna, but found myself more pro Drake/Rosina.
The plot cranked up with George trying so hard to find a way to pin something on Ross and then being reminded he was probably Valentine’s father. Dwight had had enough of London, but Demelza’s decision to go back with him blindsided us and Ross, who still hasn’t learned much, and when it came to it didn’t trust Demelza enough or understand her. I think the show lost sight of how much more we care about how Ross and Demelza can hurt each other so badly while loving each other so much, because whether Elizabeth can keep a hold of her husband while her oldest son carries on growing into an entitled snot is less interesting. I was very impatient for more Ross/Demelza discussion after the duel fall-out. What little we got made it clear they weren’t communicating well.
I’m a little amused she paid him back for the empty bed.
Also she looked gorgeous in the empire line dress.
The next episode and finale promised to include drama. IN CORNWALL.
4.8
In the ‘previously’, the last line of Demelza’s letter sounded like a grimmer threat than it had the first time around.
But then we had a wigtastic flashback, featuring young!Elizabeth with scarless!Ross dancing attendance, and Francis and George wishing they could. More importantly, we had a portent of doom from Aunt Agatha.
And then the Ennyses gave the Poldarks a lift part 1.
Demelza was soon swept up in managing Drake’s affairs. I got an answer to my previous question, Morwenna was living with her mum until sweet Drake did a bit of trauma victim whispering and offered a sexless marriage (he wasn’t shirtless this episode, so we’ll see) which seemed like the best way for her to regain mental equilibrium. Then she was living in a hut in the middle of The Village for reasons unclear. It was quite a windowless hut.
The Ennyses gave the Poldarks a lift part 2, and Caroline gave Ross some tart advice. Poor chap had had a dream where his association of Adderley with Hugh was made clear. I also liked that Ross was taking the weight of having killed a man seriously. Lord Falmouth unexpectedly decided to keep him at Westminster although he’d been a bit of a self-righteous nuisance.
Elizabeth’s face when she heard the banns for Morwenna and Drake was comic – after lots of George being mean to Valentine, who can’t help his beginnings, poor kid. Also, Demelza was very classy around him and Elizabeth.
But I got very cross with Elizabeth over Morwenna, even if you took what she was saying at face value, which I didn’t. For Morwenna, helping her and accepting the invitation, even standing up for Drake, were positive steps forward. But Elizabeth had mucked up Morwenna’s life and she was best left alone.
Anyway, George was horrible to Morwenna as well as Valentine, and Elizabeth’s lady of the manor ways fell about in tatters. I was all ‘your choices.’ Enter Ross to wind George up some more. Exit Ross.
Meanwhile, Morwenna was walking about some woods in the dark. Obviously, these weren’t the woods where Whitworth was killed, but cue scary dogs and this season’s thug. It looked like there was going to be more trauma for her, but Drake turned up and snarled a bit.
Redundant Ross got to take Demelza home and apologised for the duel, as he should, and she apologised for doing a runner, as she should. The state of them the morning after suggested all was well.
But meanwhile Elizabeth was so desperate for her second son that she was willing to sacrifice herself and her third child. Well, it’s not the first time she’s turned to drugs, although if this episode taught us anything, it’s probably not to listen to Ross about gynaecological issues. Because it was his plan.
But it seemed to work. Enter Ursula to convince her daddy he was Valentine’s daddy too – until the morning after.
After an episode that showed all his limitations, George’s devotion to Elizabeth (such as he was capable of giving) was almost touching. The ‘look what we have done’ line to Ross (excellent timing for your visit, again, R. Not) had the zing of truth, as did Ross knowing his way to the bedroom.
I was not sad for Elizabeth. Indeed, my fists may have gone up in the air, because Demelza will be spared awkward meetings and we’ll be spared Elizabeth’s mixed motivations, where you’re never sure if status or doing the decent thing is going to win over.
But Ross was so sad he went to the Julia Poldark Memorial cliff to stare at the sea (that, the portent of doom, shirtlessness and Demelza on the moral high ground kept the people filling in Poldark bingo cards busy). I liked his reprise of Drake’s ‘walk with me’ to Demelza.
I was also glad that Caroline was nice to Dwight, who had figured out what had killed Elizabeth (not Chote’s treatment, for once) and was understandably depressed. As he’d held little Ursula (echoes of Sarah), it was nice that Caroline wanted to make babies again. More seriously, I would imagine that seeing how London society mores had hurt Ross and Demelza put her off the place slightly.
If it took Elizabeth dying for Ross to see the parallels between what he’d put D through with her and what D had put him through with Hugh, I was totally fine with that. Demelza was fairly kind, and appreciated that Ross/Elizabeth had been more of a thing in Ross’s whole life. There was also a sense of mortality, building on the flashbacks and the pretence that the characters are in their late thirties.
We ended on a wedding. Did they use the special licence? I like to think they pushed it back, what with the fact no-one who should have been in mourning seemed to be, Verity had come to trot out Poldark Supremacy gubbins, and they’d put up Elizabeth’s gravestone. But anyway, wedding, with Morwenna feeling able to peck Drake on the cheek (his face!), Demelza in a flattering colour and Ross listening to her for once.
The Beeb promised us that Poldark would return. At some point when Victoria is not on, I presume.