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shallownessParks and Recreation double bill: 1.03 Canvassing was amusing, sporadically more.
How did Leslie, even with all her clueless delusions, manage to fail to promote a nice park in the public meeting? I’d pinpoint it all going wrong the second Ann handed out the leaflet to the lady who said she didn’t like parks.
I can’t even deal with what Parks and Recreation is saying about currentish America i.e. how really satirical it’s trying to be.
So, she has a mother.
1.04 Boys’ Club was funnier, (even if it justified BBC Four putting it on post watershed more than the first three eps). Ron LIIIIIIIIIIKES Leslie. Plus the moment she stood up for April was really sweet.
Revenge 2.11
Hurrah, they brought in Amanda on the Porter vs. Ryan situation. I do think that she’s more capable of handling it than the good but dim brothers. I still think that she might have effectively threatened them with her 9mm gun (okay, no, she would have needed Emily to sort it all out). I expect that she won’t feel bad for purloining the watch.
Was I meant to gasp in surprise at Padma being the Initiative’s mole? Because I didn’t. The last scene where Nolan dumped Marco (oh Marco, you so didn’t help your cause, like ever) confirmed it, but I’ve always had my suspicions. Padma looked excellent in the red dress, Emily looked excellent in all hers as did Victoria and Helen at the wine auction.
The show’s attempt to convince us that Emily was oh noes bleeding to death was futile in an episode where it proved it couldn’t even get rid of Ashley. ASHLEY. I hope Victoria’s glare when she finds out that Conrad hired her as his PR consultant to ‘run for public office’ is on full display.
Yes, WHATEVER Aidan. I feel more for Nolan hating being called Q by you (mainly because it is true. Also Emily should have given him a heads up about Helen/the Initiative’s interest in Nolcorp stuff.)
I've just been watching The Lady Vanishes, which was somewhat haunted by all sorts of things. For one thing, the font and Julian Rhind-Tutt made me ready to compare this one-off adaptation/period drama with the episodes of The Hour we’ll never get. Fair or not – it might be the BBC Drama department at work, but for a different channel – maybe that’s something I’ll be doing now.
And then there were the actors, always the curse of British TV, but the actress playing the vicar’s wife was all but repeating her role on Larkrise to Candleford, Tom Hughes was playing the version of Julian his sister might have hoped he’d be (all the talk of hotels at the end had all these unfortunate Dancing on the Edge connotations. I mean, I was okay with the romance because it was clear that he should grovel for his behaviour and was being made to too). And among all the familiar British faces, I was sure I knew the Baroness from something...I imdb’d it and it was HANNE FROM BORGEN. What a difference a wig makes! On the one hand, I was half-expecting British casting directors to try to nab the stars of Borgen. On the other, they got a Dane to play a Croatian!?
But one of the reasons I watched this – I haven’t seen the Hitchcock adaptation or read the book – was Tuppence Middleton, whom I have a lot of time for after Skeletons and well, because she’s named Tuppence. She’s good here, playing a hard-to-like character, orphaned socialite Iris who is getting slightly sick of her friends’ drunken holiday escapades, but can’t hack holidaying on her own, so she bribes her way onto a train home. Prejudiced – actual line: why can’t foreigners speak English? and arrogantly rude, she is not the best champion for a mousy governess who is kind to her after a sunstroke/bash to the head WHO MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS. And everyone in the carriage and the English people from the hotel (who include ravishing Keeley Hawes and the awesome Gemma Jones) claim never to have seen her for various reasons. Iris finally finds some Englishmen to translate and help her, but they think she’s hysterical/deranged/hot and patronise and hinder her quest as much as help it. I wonder if the palpable feminism was there in the book? Iris is pooh-poohed because she is a strident single woman who is making a scene and worse, is threatened with sedation/being sent away in the care of a doctor she finds evil because of it, despite all her money and Englishness. The missing Miss Froy was the older female friend she needed for the rest of her journey.
Anyway, other than that it was a bit of an old-fashioned romp, one or two bits looked spectacular (Croatia, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hughes) and it reminded me lots of other period dramas and early twentieth century novels (eg did it predate Miss Marple or not?).
How did Leslie, even with all her clueless delusions, manage to fail to promote a nice park in the public meeting? I’d pinpoint it all going wrong the second Ann handed out the leaflet to the lady who said she didn’t like parks.
I can’t even deal with what Parks and Recreation is saying about currentish America i.e. how really satirical it’s trying to be.
So, she has a mother.
1.04 Boys’ Club was funnier, (even if it justified BBC Four putting it on post watershed more than the first three eps). Ron LIIIIIIIIIIKES Leslie. Plus the moment she stood up for April was really sweet.
Revenge 2.11
Hurrah, they brought in Amanda on the Porter vs. Ryan situation. I do think that she’s more capable of handling it than the good but dim brothers. I still think that she might have effectively threatened them with her 9mm gun (okay, no, she would have needed Emily to sort it all out). I expect that she won’t feel bad for purloining the watch.
Was I meant to gasp in surprise at Padma being the Initiative’s mole? Because I didn’t. The last scene where Nolan dumped Marco (oh Marco, you so didn’t help your cause, like ever) confirmed it, but I’ve always had my suspicions. Padma looked excellent in the red dress, Emily looked excellent in all hers as did Victoria and Helen at the wine auction.
The show’s attempt to convince us that Emily was oh noes bleeding to death was futile in an episode where it proved it couldn’t even get rid of Ashley. ASHLEY. I hope Victoria’s glare when she finds out that Conrad hired her as his PR consultant to ‘run for public office’ is on full display.
Yes, WHATEVER Aidan. I feel more for Nolan hating being called Q by you (mainly because it is true. Also Emily should have given him a heads up about Helen/the Initiative’s interest in Nolcorp stuff.)
I've just been watching The Lady Vanishes, which was somewhat haunted by all sorts of things. For one thing, the font and Julian Rhind-Tutt made me ready to compare this one-off adaptation/period drama with the episodes of The Hour we’ll never get. Fair or not – it might be the BBC Drama department at work, but for a different channel – maybe that’s something I’ll be doing now.
And then there were the actors, always the curse of British TV, but the actress playing the vicar’s wife was all but repeating her role on Larkrise to Candleford, Tom Hughes was playing the version of Julian his sister might have hoped he’d be (all the talk of hotels at the end had all these unfortunate Dancing on the Edge connotations. I mean, I was okay with the romance because it was clear that he should grovel for his behaviour and was being made to too). And among all the familiar British faces, I was sure I knew the Baroness from something...I imdb’d it and it was HANNE FROM BORGEN. What a difference a wig makes! On the one hand, I was half-expecting British casting directors to try to nab the stars of Borgen. On the other, they got a Dane to play a Croatian!?
But one of the reasons I watched this – I haven’t seen the Hitchcock adaptation or read the book – was Tuppence Middleton, whom I have a lot of time for after Skeletons and well, because she’s named Tuppence. She’s good here, playing a hard-to-like character, orphaned socialite Iris who is getting slightly sick of her friends’ drunken holiday escapades, but can’t hack holidaying on her own, so she bribes her way onto a train home. Prejudiced – actual line: why can’t foreigners speak English? and arrogantly rude, she is not the best champion for a mousy governess who is kind to her after a sunstroke/bash to the head WHO MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS. And everyone in the carriage and the English people from the hotel (who include ravishing Keeley Hawes and the awesome Gemma Jones) claim never to have seen her for various reasons. Iris finally finds some Englishmen to translate and help her, but they think she’s hysterical/deranged/hot and patronise and hinder her quest as much as help it. I wonder if the palpable feminism was there in the book? Iris is pooh-poohed because she is a strident single woman who is making a scene and worse, is threatened with sedation/being sent away in the care of a doctor she finds evil because of it, despite all her money and Englishness. The missing Miss Froy was the older female friend she needed for the rest of her journey.
Anyway, other than that it was a bit of an old-fashioned romp, one or two bits looked spectacular (Croatia, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hughes) and it reminded me lots of other period dramas and early twentieth century novels (eg did it predate Miss Marple or not?).
