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shallowness) wrote2018-10-08 08:45 pm
shallowness) wrote2018-10-08 08:45 pm
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Weekend telly
Killing Eve 1.4 Sorry Baby
Sandra Oh conveyed Eve’s grief and trauma after Bill’s murder beautifully. Eve’s relationship suffered because of it, and the case. From the outside, her husband made a perfectly reasonable request that she drop it for her own safety. And she turned nasty, and...ouch.
We learned Villanelle’s real name – Oksana (I’d been spoiled for it). The fake beard scene was as much fun as it had promised to be from the series trailers. She was forced to work in a team, and it was obvious from the outset that the others’ time wouldn’t be long. The male assassin was such a prat, almost too much so? The hints about her past with Nadia were interesting, although I fear I’m overlaying Natasha Romanov’s backstory over it.
I liked the subtle comeuppances that Villanelle missed – that Frank’s mother was, in fact, a spy, that by running Nadia over (because shooting was unsubtle?) she trashed the van. But she never claimed to know everything, just not to know nothing – and her knowing about her handler’s daughter says a lot about how she’s behaved in what we’ve seen of their relationship, no?
Going to the village reminded me of the Avengers (the Brits in the 1960s, that same incongruity of spies in the middle of the English countryside). Eve was desperately making it up as she went along. I also thought the revelation that useless Frank, who no-one liked, witness his pass-ag, off-the-mark eulogy, was a mole was handled well.
Strictly Results
The SiTR started off a bit ‘too soon after Ore and Jo’s routine?’ as Giovanni gave us his best Gene Kelly dancing with a lamp-post, but then the modern twist and the water (they can’t have rehearsed in that? Did they offer the front row towels?) was brilliant.
Cue the recap, and I duly noted who of the ‘middling’ got positive comments, who got mixed to negative comments and the top ones who got lavish praise.
I suppose Charles and Karen are really not connecting as a couple (and AJ may be popular with other people, or other people who feel that Lauren isn’t being given her best chance bothered to phone. Clearly everyone wants to see more Gorka – the show went overboard on Katie’s development, as if her partner wasn’t a factor at all.)
Gladys Knight (who, unlike George Ezzzzra, didn’t need dancers accompanying her throughout) and the pros sizzled through ‘Licence to Kill’. I wondered if Giovanni’s dancing commitments affected why he and Faye weren’t called safe earlier. Anyone who can do maths could see that the results would be called in threes again.
Judges’ comments were mostly unenlightening except for Craig showing his issues with Ashley’s hips, I guess.
Once Lee was put in danger, I fast forwarded through the dance-off, because…duh.
I watched It Takes Two last night. I suppose the best moment was Stacey and Kevin seeing the clips of small kids' excitement at their Minions jive.
Sandra Oh conveyed Eve’s grief and trauma after Bill’s murder beautifully. Eve’s relationship suffered because of it, and the case. From the outside, her husband made a perfectly reasonable request that she drop it for her own safety. And she turned nasty, and...ouch.
We learned Villanelle’s real name – Oksana (I’d been spoiled for it). The fake beard scene was as much fun as it had promised to be from the series trailers. She was forced to work in a team, and it was obvious from the outset that the others’ time wouldn’t be long. The male assassin was such a prat, almost too much so? The hints about her past with Nadia were interesting, although I fear I’m overlaying Natasha Romanov’s backstory over it.
I liked the subtle comeuppances that Villanelle missed – that Frank’s mother was, in fact, a spy, that by running Nadia over (because shooting was unsubtle?) she trashed the van. But she never claimed to know everything, just not to know nothing – and her knowing about her handler’s daughter says a lot about how she’s behaved in what we’ve seen of their relationship, no?
Going to the village reminded me of the Avengers (the Brits in the 1960s, that same incongruity of spies in the middle of the English countryside). Eve was desperately making it up as she went along. I also thought the revelation that useless Frank, who no-one liked, witness his pass-ag, off-the-mark eulogy, was a mole was handled well.
Strictly Results
The SiTR started off a bit ‘too soon after Ore and Jo’s routine?’ as Giovanni gave us his best Gene Kelly dancing with a lamp-post, but then the modern twist and the water (they can’t have rehearsed in that? Did they offer the front row towels?) was brilliant.
Cue the recap, and I duly noted who of the ‘middling’ got positive comments, who got mixed to negative comments and the top ones who got lavish praise.
I suppose Charles and Karen are really not connecting as a couple (and AJ may be popular with other people, or other people who feel that Lauren isn’t being given her best chance bothered to phone. Clearly everyone wants to see more Gorka – the show went overboard on Katie’s development, as if her partner wasn’t a factor at all.)
Gladys Knight (who, unlike George Ezzzzra, didn’t need dancers accompanying her throughout) and the pros sizzled through ‘Licence to Kill’. I wondered if Giovanni’s dancing commitments affected why he and Faye weren’t called safe earlier. Anyone who can do maths could see that the results would be called in threes again.
Judges’ comments were mostly unenlightening except for Craig showing his issues with Ashley’s hips, I guess.
Once Lee was put in danger, I fast forwarded through the dance-off, because…duh.
I watched It Takes Two last night. I suppose the best moment was Stacey and Kevin seeing the clips of small kids' excitement at their Minions jive.