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shallowness) wrote2018-11-14 07:42 am
shallowness) wrote2018-11-14 07:42 am
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Belated weekend telly post
Monarch of the Glen update: Golly turned out to have a daughter, who was very rude and snobbish when she found out he was her father, but eventually apologised. Enter Stuart, who was the wrong Mac, (Macintosh) so the McDonalds took against him, but Lexie (who had been in a terrible temper) didn’t. He lasted two episodes, wheeling and dealing and starting to date Lexie, which put Archie in a bad mood. Stuart turned out to be dodgy in business and romance, and Molly’s obsession with a historical mystery led to his comeuppance, which included Lexie wielding a bouquet – a fearsome sight.
The execution is daft, plus I am not as sympathetic with Team Glenbogle’s financial plight as I should be. Obviously, you’re meant to look at the scenery and not take it too seriously – even when a supposed wised-up bank representative uses the same negotiating tactics for land as is used for salvaging parts of old cottages.
Little Drummer Girl – episode 3
It required concentration, so although there’s a lot of style, there is substance, too – it’s reasonably even-handed about the history of the Middle East conflict given that most of the characters are Israeli. Anyway, I’m glad it’s returning to the 9 o’clock slot next week.
Charlie did turn out to be a natural as Gadie (he hasn’t told me not to call him that) said, up to a point, but then ‘coped’ with what she’d done by getting very drunk. The continual playing on relationship tropes between those two is as compelling as Gadie and Marty’s blips of conscience.
We were warned of disturbing scenes, but before the ear-biting, I was mainly critiquing four spies I presume had Israeli military training for not being able to subdue one woman, even if she was a raging wildcat, without a sedative. I supposed they weren’t meant to injure her.
Strictly Results
I don’t think my unvarnished opinion of what the opening routine stood for would be that edifying, so let’s move on (although did they skip thanking the choreographer?) Tess’s white dress was fine and suitable for the night, ditto Shirley’s shouldertastic red dress, Darcey’s black lace thing needed more lining, but I liked Claudia’s dress the best, although I’d have swopped it for Darcey’s shoes.
I felt the first three called safe were the right ones as they’d either improved or excelled. Graeme’s salsa was a bit weird and he has been in the dance-off before (but he got quite positive comments in the round-up, whilst others, who were better, got mixed ones – MISDIRECT!)
Matteo Boccelli is the most gruesome-looking creature (not). Er, he can sing better than Enrique Inglesias, but when his father came in with more charisma/vim, a richer voice and in Italian, you could see why it was decided to launch junior’s career on daddy’s coat-tails. Meanwhile, Anton’s partner had the most gorgeous hands, and their dancing was lovely.
Reasonably informative judges’ expansions all round for once.
Shirley did a good job presenting the tea dance segment, no? Kevin came off sounding a little surprised that Aljiaz and Janette did a good dance.
Kate being called safe did not irk me as much as it has at other times she’s been that low on the leaderboard. I had a chance to notice the flecks of blue of Kevin’s shirt and the true garishness of Joe’s. Zero tension over whether Stacey and Kevin’s vote had collapsed enough to put them in the dance-off.
Like Bruno, Shirley gave affirming ‘advice’ with one note for improvement for Danny. I didn’t think he’d improved, although I missed the mistake, and enjoyed Graeme’s salscercise more (although there was still that one move where he was straining for Oti’s upturned calf that befuddled me). There was a time when this would have been a bigger shock, but apart from his jive at one end and his quickstep at the other, he’s been at about the same level. I loved that moment in his last dance when he acknowledged the musicians and singers.
I did watch ITT on Monday and it’s very rare for the celeb to be a total no-show. I presume ‘Do you know what?’ Amy will be given a ringer next year.
The execution is daft, plus I am not as sympathetic with Team Glenbogle’s financial plight as I should be. Obviously, you’re meant to look at the scenery and not take it too seriously – even when a supposed wised-up bank representative uses the same negotiating tactics for land as is used for salvaging parts of old cottages.
Little Drummer Girl – episode 3
It required concentration, so although there’s a lot of style, there is substance, too – it’s reasonably even-handed about the history of the Middle East conflict given that most of the characters are Israeli. Anyway, I’m glad it’s returning to the 9 o’clock slot next week.
Charlie did turn out to be a natural as Gadie (he hasn’t told me not to call him that) said, up to a point, but then ‘coped’ with what she’d done by getting very drunk. The continual playing on relationship tropes between those two is as compelling as Gadie and Marty’s blips of conscience.
We were warned of disturbing scenes, but before the ear-biting, I was mainly critiquing four spies I presume had Israeli military training for not being able to subdue one woman, even if she was a raging wildcat, without a sedative. I supposed they weren’t meant to injure her.
Strictly Results
I don’t think my unvarnished opinion of what the opening routine stood for would be that edifying, so let’s move on (although did they skip thanking the choreographer?) Tess’s white dress was fine and suitable for the night, ditto Shirley’s shouldertastic red dress, Darcey’s black lace thing needed more lining, but I liked Claudia’s dress the best, although I’d have swopped it for Darcey’s shoes.
I felt the first three called safe were the right ones as they’d either improved or excelled. Graeme’s salsa was a bit weird and he has been in the dance-off before (but he got quite positive comments in the round-up, whilst others, who were better, got mixed ones – MISDIRECT!)
Matteo Boccelli is the most gruesome-looking creature (not). Er, he can sing better than Enrique Inglesias, but when his father came in with more charisma/vim, a richer voice and in Italian, you could see why it was decided to launch junior’s career on daddy’s coat-tails. Meanwhile, Anton’s partner had the most gorgeous hands, and their dancing was lovely.
Reasonably informative judges’ expansions all round for once.
Shirley did a good job presenting the tea dance segment, no? Kevin came off sounding a little surprised that Aljiaz and Janette did a good dance.
Kate being called safe did not irk me as much as it has at other times she’s been that low on the leaderboard. I had a chance to notice the flecks of blue of Kevin’s shirt and the true garishness of Joe’s. Zero tension over whether Stacey and Kevin’s vote had collapsed enough to put them in the dance-off.
Like Bruno, Shirley gave affirming ‘advice’ with one note for improvement for Danny. I didn’t think he’d improved, although I missed the mistake, and enjoyed Graeme’s salscercise more (although there was still that one move where he was straining for Oti’s upturned calf that befuddled me). There was a time when this would have been a bigger shock, but apart from his jive at one end and his quickstep at the other, he’s been at about the same level. I loved that moment in his last dance when he acknowledged the musicians and singers.
I did watch ITT on Monday and it’s very rare for the celeb to be a total no-show. I presume ‘Do you know what?’ Amy will be given a ringer next year.